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full report pass 57 Telephone 288-8000 80 Pages 15c TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 4, 1972 mm MASSACHUSETTS POLL Provocations to be avoided 7 vj 1 1 -r- 'v5 McGovern, Nixon run close in state v-t; AjsM Slit Copyrieht, 1972, Globe Newspaper Co. Sen. George McGovern and President Nixon would run almost even in Massachusetts, with McGovern perhaps slightly ahead, if a presidential contest between the two men were held today, the Massachusetts Poll indicates. The poll pitting the Democratic frontrunner against the incumbent President was taken between June 25 and June 28 and showed McGovern receiving 47 percent of the vote, Mr. Nixon 44 percent and 9 percent of the voters undecided.

McGovern and Mr. Nixon received almost the same respective vote percentages in a poll taken in February of this year which involved a three-man race including Alabama Gov. George Wallace. In that poll, McGovern received 45 percent. Mr.

Nixon 42 percent and Wallace 6 percent. It appears that neither McGov-ern's successes in the race for the Democratic nomination, including his Massachusetts victory, nor Mr. Nixon's trips to Peking and Moscow, both of which came after the earlier poll, have affected either man's standing for Massachusetts voters. (While McGovern is even with, or perhaps slightly ahead of, the Presi dent in Massachusetts, he trails Mr. Nixon nationwide, according to the latest Gallup Poll.

(Although McGovern fares the best of all the declared Democratic candidates against Mr. Nixon, the Gallup Poll results published in Sunday's Globe showed him trailing the President 53 percent to 37 percent, with 10 percent undecided. (With Alabama Gov. George Wallace included as a third-party candidate the figures are: McGovern 32 percent, Nixon 45 percent and Wallace 18 percent, with 5 percent undecided.) The Massachusetts Poll is conducted exclusively for The Boston Globe by Becker Research Corp. of Boston.

For the -poll, Becker's interviewers contacted 700 adult residents of the state who were 18 years of age or older and who said they are relatively sure they will vote in November's general election. The interviews were conducted by telephone and the sample those who were questioned was selected by systematic procedures from telephone directories. Interviews were apportioned among the various areas of the state proportional to each area's share of the state's total number of registered voters. MASS. POLL, Page 54 Iltli 1 I ,11 r--.

Lzzzs 1 Unused children's beds costing hospitals millions Hospital room in Silver Spring, yesterday short outing at his physician's home. (AP) WALLACE EAKES AN OUTING George Wallace is, wheeled by security McGbvern, Daley losses upheld 2 Koreas reveal an accord By Darius S. Jhabvala Globe Washington Bureau WASHINGTON North and South enemies during and since the 1950 war that involved the forces of the United States and the United Nations, have taken secret steps to', normalize their relations. The steps could lead to reunification. The governments in Pyongyang and Seoul jointly announced yesterday that level" representatives of the two sides had met to problems in order to "improve rela tions" and had agreed "not to slanderj or defame each and "to mutually refrain from using armed provocation" against each other.

They also agreed to install a hot line between the two capitals. The decisions are momentous since they are the first concrete tures by both to seek eventual reunification without resort to force. KOREA, Page 49 Stakes doubled, Fischer heading for chess match By Harold Dondis Globe Correspondent REYKJAVIK, Iceland Thanks to the extra inducement of $130,000 put up yesterday morning by a wealthy British banker, reluctant Bobby Fischer decided last night to show up, after all, for. his summit chess match here against Boris Spas-sky of Russia. He flew from New York last after accepting, through his attorney, the offer of investment banker James D.

Slator to double the pot for the once-delayed meeting between the American challenger and the present world champion It ended, for the moment, a day of off-again, on-again bulletins and charges and counter-charges. Fischer had said he wouldn't show up unless the Icelandic Chess Federation, sponsor of the 24-game match, met his demands for 30 percent of the gate receipts. CHESS, Page 38 COMR. NEIL SULLIVAN; not talking Sullivan to head new Coast plan for city teachers By Muriel L. Cohen Globe Staff State Education Commissioner Neil Sullivan, 57, controversial; advocate of school integration by' forced busing, will leave Massachu- i setts to head a new urban education program at California State Univer- sity, Long Beach, beginning in Sep- tember.

Steven Horn, president of the -Long Beach campus of the massive California university system, yester- day confirmed unofficial reports that Sullivan would leave his $30,000 a year administrative post In Massa-' cliusetts for a full professorship at Long Beach. SULLIVAN, Page 11 I Alabama Gov. men back to his Both the Illinois and the California credentials cases will be appealed today to a three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals here. In both scases Hart made it clear he did not think the judiciary ought to become involved in Democratic Party disputes. "This is an issue for the convention itself, not for the courts," he said in ruling on the California case.

The 151 McGovern delegates from California were unseated by the credentials committee last Thursday when it decided that the Holy Cross after a Several metropolitan area hospitals averaged only one pediatric patient a day, according to figures obtained from the Greater Boston Hospital Council. A dozen of the 29 hospitals had pediatric occupancy rates ranging from 12 to 47 percent, compared to ah optimum average of about 80 percent allowing for reasonable peaks and valleys. At the Winthrop Community Hospital, for example, each pediatric bed was in use for only 73 days a year Avhile the Milton Hospital had a 1971 per-bed usage of only 43 days a year. At the Mt. Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, the Symmes Hospital in Arlington, Quincy City Hospital, and Newton-Wellesley Hospital, the number of empty pediatric beds on -an average day approached or ex-' ceeded two-thirds of hospital's capacity." PEDIATRICS, Page 24 Zzi By Jim Mann Washington Post WASHINGTON A Federal judge here yesterday upheld the Democratic Credentials Committee actions that stripped Sen.

George McGovern of 151 delegates in California and unseated the 59 Illinois delegates headed by Mayor Richard J. Daley of Chicago. The ruling by US District Court Judge George L. Hart Jr. was at least a preliminary defeat for the McGovern and the Daley forces in their efforts to win back in the courts what they lost last week before the credentials committee.

By Richard A. Knox Globe Staff Massachusetts has a steadily worsening oversupply of hospital beds for children a situation that costs the public millions of dollars annually and compromises the quality of care in under-used pediatric units, according to many medical authorities. A review of figures by The Globe from 29 Boston-area hospital pediatric units documents an unmistakable trend of declining demand for such facilities. As of last year, the trend reached the point where more than a third of the area's 1222 available pediatric beds lay empty on an average day. The 436 pediatric beds usually empty equal the combined capacity of New England's two largest children's hospitals, the Children's Hospital and the Boston Floating Hospital; IN THIS CORNER Operator finds callers gasp: 'You're a MAN' By Ken.

O. Botwright Globe Staff "Yes, operator Yes, SIR," woman caller said yesterday to long-distance telephone operator. state should not have conducted its presidential primary on a winner-take-all basis. Most of the deposed delegates were replaced by delegates committed to Sen. Hubert Humphrey, who lost to McGovern by a 44.3 to 39.2 percent margin in the California primary.

The 58 delegates allied with Daley were elected in the Illinois primary March 21. The credentials committee rejected the delegates Friday night on grounds that the Daley slate was put together in violation of party reform rules. CREDENTIALS, Page 26 GM recalling 500,000 Vegas in axle delect From Wire Services DETROIT General Motors yesterday asked owners of virtually every Chevrolet Vega on the road to return them to dealers to check a defective axle shaft that could cause rear brake failure and ihc axle itself to fall off. It was the third major recall of Vegas in the last three months and affected 500,000 of the subcompact cars nearly every one built in the 1971 and 1972 model years. Only models with so-called 'Tositraction" rear axles are excluded.

Somewhat similar rear axle failures resulted earlier this year in Ford Motor recall of more than 400,000 1972 Ford Torinos and Mercury Montcgos. GM said actual inspection would take less than 10 minutes and that axle replacements, if needed, could be completed in approximately an hour. Inspection and replacements will be at company expense. All Vegas built since the car was introduced have been affected by two previous recall campaigns. RECALL, Page 19 Xj li lt' Mo- tf.sf U.M.-t-aili,in 'Hi CXX uim i Then the caller giggled and added, "Hey, you're a MAN.

That's cute." Jay Whitney, 20, of Somerville mumbled an embarrassed "Thanks," then went on with his work as the only male long distance operator at the Dorchester 2 office of the New England Telephone Co. He had just completed two weeks of training and yesterday was his first day on the Slant switchboard with some of the 90 women who stall it around the clock, Many other callers whom Jay Poka to during his Inaugural eight-hour shift also expressed surprise they heard his unfamiliar baritone. One guy sneered: "What's the matter? They running short of women In Boston?" OPERATOR, page 23 New England Telephone Co. operators Marilyn Defren (left) and Peggy Lawn. (William Curtis photo) QUITE AN OPERATOR Jay Whitney mans the longdistance board yesterday in Dorchester with fellow 5.

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