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49 WORLD FINANCIAL, 62 THEATER ARTS, 69 Boston Sunday Globe June 13, 1972 Yale chanlain 'We've made progress' Kennedy and Mills allied on health plan looks inward By Christopher Wallace, Globe Staff -A NEW HAVEN William Sloane Coffin Jr drove over to the Canadian side of Niagra Falls a few weeks ago and looked back at his country. During the last decide, the chaplain of Yale University led thousands of Americans through, ithe'streets, and hundreds into jail to protest racial discrimination in -the South and mass destructioa in Southeast Asia; Now, he stood alone outside the United States for a' few moments, looking back. "I felt this enormous weight of guilt and being lifted off me," he remembered recently. Mills and Kennedy flew out '-to St. Louis together for the testimony before a Platform subcommittee headed by Wilbur J.

Cohen, former secretary of Health, Education and Welfare during the Johnson Administration. Mills, who fought bitterly against the passage of Medicare for older Americans during the Johnson and Kennedy Administrations, moved father than he ever has toward a system of nationwide health insurance. After he and Kennedy testified together, Mills, who is chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, told the Cohen committee that "The fundamental attribute of what we're trying to do here is to make sure that the poor are given the services for medical treatment on as uniform a basis as everyone else." Kennedy remarked that "I think we've made enormous progress to date" and said that both he and Mills would work together to try to present legislation before the Democratic National Convention July 10 in Miami Beach. On the subject of politics, Mills and Kennedy were asked about their availability for national office. Mills is campaigning actively, although gaining few delegate votes and Kennedy says that he is not a candidate.

KENNEDY, Page 59 By Martin F. Nolan Globe Staff ST. LOUIS Sen. Edward M. Kennedy and Rep.

Wilbur D. Mills mingled some "dream, ticket" politicking and hard-nosed 'realistic policy yesterday to produce an historic agreement on the outlines of a national health insurance pro- gram v': v'v The Massachusetts senator and the Arkansas congressman made their first joint political appearance together before the Democratic Platform Committee's regional hearings in St. Louis. The paw agreed upon the broad outlines of a' Democratic, plan for health insurance -jand said that their differences nowy were narrowed down to "three or four Both Kennedy and Mills, in their joint testimony, said that "America haa a' responsibility to offer every American family the best in health care whenever they need it, regardless of income, where they live, or any other factor." In their joint statement they added that, "the Federal government should assume this responsibility by establishing a system of compulsory national health insurance which covers all Americans with a standard comprehensive set of basic benefits supplemented by protection against catastrophic costs." mostly Vietnam, r-jtne i-, credible detractfori' He sa.i sjtbo 'h at the eilgf thinking tion his nation is thinking that the Vietnam war is "the most shameful of ythef'lOfh pen- tury. rid he started t.b cry-.

Those in that solitude were alsignifi-' cant statement for Coffin. They expressed the frustration of an antiwar activist who cannot find an effective way, to oppose the war. They expressed the confusion of a middle-aged man who is trying to respond to new feelings, HEALTH CARE ALLIES Rep. Mills (right) confers with Sen. Kennedy during their appearance yesterday at Democratic platform hearing in St.

Louis." (UPI) EEV. WILLIAM COFFIN quest for wisdom Death toll growing in tunnel rail crash lit: new ideas. And they expressed the turmoil of a preacher-reformer who senses that he must have time alone to think, just as his congregation-audience begins to abandon him. William Sloane Coffin has entered a new stage in his life. He is less the public man arousing others, and more the private man wrestling with himself.

Thousands in the streets are no longer as meaningful to him as tears on a hillside. Coffin comes to this new -phase of self-doubt after more than 25 years of constant, unwavering activism. The descendant of; a wealthy New York line (the family business is the Sloane Furniture he left Yale after his freshman year to enlist in the infantry during World War II. Associated Press SOISSONS, France Rescuers defying the possibility of a new rockfall struggled last night to save three persons pinned alive in the wreckage of two trains that collided in a tunnel, killing at least 48 persons. Two or three children were heard cry- TT- J.

1 Sai t' the wreckage during the short time later the second train also hit the debris and smashed into the first one. Officials of France's national railway said the tunnel, at Soissons about 60 miles north of Paris on the Paris-Laon route, had been under repair. More than 700 rescuers, including special mine rescue squads with ticated listening gear, were spurred on yesterday vthert they contacted the three survivors. Despite fears that work to reinforce the tunnel roof might lead to new falls, the teams started rigging supports in an effort to help reach the survivors. Road accident rescue gear mechanical and hand saws, hydraulic jacks and cutters were being used to cut through the debris of the two trains.

Regular heavy railway gear was laid aside in the face of denger that excessive vibration would cause new falls of rock or wreckage. Doctors estimated survivors had to be reached inside 36 hours or their chances of overcoming shock and injuries in a hospital were slim. A wrecking train stood by. If it is decided that all hope is the train will try to drag the wreckage out of the tunnel. xic speiu i wir yeursjiHiier tpe war woiKing as a liaison to the Russian Army and became rabidly anti-Soviet.

When the Korean war began, he interrupted his graduate education to work for the Central Intelligence Agency for three years on Russian affairs. In 1961, three years after his appointment as chaplain of Yale, Coffin went to Montgomery, Ala. on one of the first "freedom rides." He was arrested for violating local "Jim Crow" laws, but later exonerated by the US Supreme Court. As early as 1964, the chaplain was speaking out gainst Vietnam. In 1968, he was indicted, along with baby doctor Benjamin Spock and three others, on charges of conspiring to promote draft resistance.

COFFIN, Page 60 morafngr Taut rescue workers said their cries, died away by nightfall. Besides the 48 known killed and 76 injured all Frenchmen an unknown number of bodies lay trapped in the tangle of twisted metal and fallen earth, police said. Newsmen on the scene said rescuers sighted 17 bodies in one coach and 12 in another, with one of the wrecked cars completely inaccessible. Rail officials said about 500 passengers were on the two trains, many soldiers and students on a weekend break. Rescuers reported at least two men and a pregnant woman were still alive in the mangled coaches.

The two trains sped into the tunnel from opposite directions Friday night at 60 miles an hour. Rail officials said it appeared one train derailed on debris from the crumbling tunnel roof and a DEATH UNDERGROUND Firemen and rescue workers examine wreckage of one of two trains which crashed in mile-lo ng tunnel near Soissons, France. (UPI) Nader report sees need for complete civil service reform WILL FISCHER BEAT SPASSKY? Nader's Public Interest Research Group. During the past year and a half, Vaughn and two law students interviewed or had contact with 400 Federal employees, including CSC officials. Nader told a news conference the "most important report we've ever put out" attacked a problem fundamental to effective democracy, since "no matter who gets in at the head of government the bureaucracy is the great leveler of their aspirations." No bureaucracy, he said, "can operate responsibly and effectively unless the people who work for it can get to it." NADER, Page 59 the board has been mismanaged and Berzak had engaged in "subterfuge." In response, the Civil Service Commission issued a brief statement saying it had not had time to read the entire document, but "from a quick reading of the recommendation portions of the report, many of the proposals have a familiar ring similar ideas considered by the commission in one form or another in the course of making hundreds of improvements in personnel policy and system in recent years." The two-inch-thick report was written by Harvard lawyer Robert Vaughn, a native of Chikasha, who works for United Press International WASHINGTON In what Ralph Nader called "the most important report we've ever put out," an extensive study of the Civil Service system concluded that the nation's nearly 3 million government workers are stifled by a system that rewards bad work but punishes good.

The study, issued yesterday, called for top-to-bottom reform of the system, Machinery to allow a citizen to bring lawsuits against civil servants who don't do their job, thus making them accountable to the public instead of the system. Establishment of an independent board to accept complaints from both citizens and government employees, and to take over the disciplining of workers threatened with dismissal or denied promotion. Public disclosure of the various inspection reports which the Civil Service makes on its own operations, so citizens will know whether the controlling Civil Service Commission is acting on them. Dismissal of William Berzak as chairman of the board of appeals review, which hears pleas from dismissed workers, and replacement of him and other members as they retire with persons from outside the system. The report asserts Fischer favored checl to Spassky New York's primary tests McGovern machine Harold Dortdis on chess, Page 95.

By Al Horowitz, Special to The Globe A i When, on July 2, many-time United States chess champion Robert Fischer sits down to play the first game of his world championship match against titleholder Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union, it will be the first time in 71 years that an American has participated in a match for chessdom's highest title. Although Samuel Reshevsky took part in a tournament held in 1948 to determine the successor to the-throne left vacant by death of Alexander Alekhine and finished fourth no American has faced a reigning world champ in a head-to-head confrontation for the title since Frank J. Marshall in 1901, when he suffered a humiliating defeat at the hands of Emmanuel Lasker. Those 71 years represent a long period of hope and frustration for American chess fans, and it is little wonder that now, when a fellow countryman has earned not only an opportunity to play for the, but also the right to be regarded a heavy favorite as well, the national chess community should await the event in a fever of enthusiasm, i v. 1 Many American chess players hate followed" Fischer's career from the time when, at the age of 12, he first proved himself a force to be reckoned with.

Two years later, in 1956, he won the US championship for the first time and there were many who predicted that he vould win the world title before hewas old enough to votfc CHESS, Page 60 PS I 75 I iy 7 (4 I J.7 By Kenneth D. Campbell, Globe Staff NEW YORK Mayor John V. Lindsay and most other Democrats won't vote here Tuesday in the last of the 23 Democratic primaries, the most arduous exercise in the popular selection of a presidential candidate in the history of the United States. Fifteen weeks after Sen. George S.

McGovern won his first primary delegate votes in New Hampshire, only 30 percent of the 3.6 million Democrats in this state of 18.2 million people are expected to vote on delegates for the national convention. Indeed, notes McGovern's New York campaign director. Prof. Richard Wade, his forecast of 30 percent would be the highest Democratic turnout for a presidential primary in the state's history. This is a fight of political machines, jsut as primaries have always been.

The difference is that this fight the new machine of the McGovern organization which is favored to win against the county political bosses. The new machine is worried. Its coordinators predicted three days ago that McGovern would win 202 of the 243 delegates. Now they estimate he will win only 165 to 180. If McGovern won 202 delegates, he would be en titled to 23 of the 28 at-large delegates, who will be selected Saturday, giving him a total of 225 New York delegates.

If he won 165, his total would be 184, including 19 at large. Two persons will become delegates to the convention no matter what: the national committeeman, Jack English, a former campaign aide to Sen. Edmund Muskie, and the national committeewoman, Rep. Shirley Chisholm, who is running for President herself. Mayor Lindsay, until two months ago, was also a candidate for the Democratic nomination, but he announced Friday that he would not even vote in the primary because he planned to be in New Orleans Tuesday at the United States Conference of Mayors.

He noted that he could not vote in the primary by absentee ballot, but he said that made little difference. 'Tm completely neutral on every single one of the primary fights that are taking place," he told reporters. Lindsay and McGovern, who were considered to appeal to basically the same supporters when they were rivals for the Democratic nomination, got together briefly today. McGovern paid a courtesy call on Lindsay at the mayor's official residence; Gracie Mansion. N.Y.

PRIMARY, Page 50 SEN. McGOVERN all-out effort SEN. HUMPHREY avoids New York.