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THE KOKOMO TRIBUNE VOL 121--NO. 310 7 SECTIONS; KOKOMO, WEDNESDAY, JULY 12, 1972 ASSOCIATID PRESS NIWS ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOS NEWSSTAND PRICE TEN CENTS McGovern Considers His Running Mote MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) Sen. George McGovern, assured of the platform he sought and a first-ballot'victory tonight in the Democratic presidential balloting, considered a list of potential running mates today. Aides said he still plans to ask a reluctant Sen.

Edward M. Kennedy to join the ticket. Weary delegates had barely 12 hours off after the longest convention session in the history of either party before tonight's climactic meeting at which McGovern was scheduled to be the first candidate placed into nomination and, when the balloting took place, the party's nominee. California planned to yield to Connecticut when the states were called for nominations so that Sen. Abraham A.

Ribicoff could nominate the 49-year-old South Dakota senator to head the Democratic ticket this November. Speculation turned immediately to possible running mates after the withdrawal of Sens. Hubert H. Humphrey and Edmund S. Muskie on Tuesday assured McGovern's nomination.

Kennedy was clearly his top choice Wallace Rebuffed despite repeated statements he Is unavailable. A close personal friend of Kennedy, Sen. John Tunney of California, told reporters after talking with him by phone that he thinks it highly unlikely Kennedy would accept. He added he expects Kennedy to fly here from Hyannis Port, Thursday to appear at the convention with the nominee. McGovern's aides said that others under consideration include: United Auto Workers President Leonard Woodcock; Sens.

Thomas F. Eagleton of Missouri and Abratam A. Ribicoff of Connecticut and Florida Gov. Reubin Askew. The Democratic National Convention, meanwhile, headed toward approval of a platform that mirrors McGovern's views in calling for total U.S.

withdrawal from Indochina and supporting busing to improve educational opportunities. By voice vote, the convention shouted down eight proposals, ranging from endorsement of capital punishment and public-school prayers to a constitutional amendment barring busing, despite a plea by Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace. As the convention deliberated through a second marathon night session Tuesday in a relaxed atmosphere after Monday night's sharp credentials battles, Wallace provided a dramatic highlight with an appeal for far-ranging tax reform and a denunciation of "the senseless asinine busing of little school children." A mighty roar went up and red- white-and-blue placards waved from the pro-Wallace delegates as Wallace was carried in a wheelchair to the podium.

Other delegates stood in respect to the governor, partially paralyzed when shot down while campaigning in Laurel, May IS. But Wallace's appeals were doomed to failure'as the convention worked to approve a platform, tailored largely to the liberal views of McGovern. Wallace, holding just a few hundred delegates, and Sen. Henry M. Jackson of Washington, with under 100, vowed to stay in the presidential race although Convention Gives McGovern Platform That He Wanted MIAMI BEACH, Fla.

(AP) The Democratic National Convention gave Sen. George McGovern today the kind of platform he sought, rebuffing a personal plea that Gov. George C. Wallace made from his wheelchair for a strikingly different party document. Reflecting in general the views of the man whose nomination now is assured, the platform calls for immediate withdrawal from Vietnam, closing of tax loopholes, replacing the welfare system with income grants and recognition of busing as one means of achieving quality educaton.

The delegates stayed in session from 7:30 p.m. Tuesday until 6:25 a.m. today to complete their work on the platform. The convention gave the Alabama governor, crippled by a would-be assassin's bullets, a two-minute ovation when he was wheeled to the podium. It lis- tened respectfully to his firm-voiced ar- gument that it should appeal to the "75 to 80 per cent of the American people (who) are against senseless, asinine busing of school children," and, in other respects as well, largely rewrite the draft platform.

But' later it shouted down, one by one, the Wallace proposals. An even clearer demonstration of McGovern power came when the convention defeated a number of amendments, with broad-based support, but which so the candidate's emissaries said would be embarrassing in the campaign. These included proposed planks favoring liberal abortion policies, nondiscrimination against homosexuals, and major goals of the National Welfare Rights Organization a $6,500 income guarantee for a family of four, rollback of rents, government takeover and repair of substandard housing. The majority version of the platform, adopted almost unchanged, ranges widely. Among its provisions are elimination of "unfair" Nixon administration wage-price controls, strengthened antitrust laws to break up conglomerates and to "deconcentrate" near-monopolies with the automobile industry cited as an example emphasis on rights of women, curbs on the congressional seniority system and insistence on open meetings, stiff controls on handguns, abolition of capital punishment and firm control of military spending.

The Wallace proposals that were rejected included a constitutional amendment for prayer in schools, affirmation of the right to bear arms, authority for states to impose capital punishment and provisions for election of some federal judges and periodic reconfirmation of others. McGovern's assured first-ballot strength shot past the 1,509 votes needed to win. Sens. Hubert H. Humphrey of Minnesota and Edmund S.

Muskie of Maine dropped out of the race Tuesday. Besides McGovern, Wallace and Jackson, supporters announced nominating speeches would be made for former Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy; Reps. Wilbur D.

Mills and Shirley Chisholm and former North Carolina Gov. Terry Sanford. With much of the Humphrey and Mus- kie strength now listed in the undecided column, The Associated Press count gave McGovern 1,590.75 votes as the day of his nomination dawned. The total needed for nomination is 1,509. Wallace trailed with 378, the uncommitted total stood at 850.6 and the remainder were scattered.

McGovern spent much of the day Tuesday in his 17th-story penthouse in the Doral Beach Hotel. "He's working on his acceptance speech and, I dare say, thinking about the vice-presidential thing," said spokesman Richard Dougherty. The senator met with various groups during the day, including relatives of a half-dozen American prisoners of war: in Southeast Asia. McGovern promised to stand by American prisoners, a pledge that marked what aides said was "an elaboration" of his Southeast Asia policy. In the brightly lit convention hall, meanwhile, the delegates went through the convention routine, electing Lawrence F.

O'Brien the convention's permanent chairman and adopting party rules including one that bans winner- take-all primaries, starting in 1976. It was such a contest that stirred the California credentials fight. The party also decided that, starting with 1976, a woman will preside over every other national convention. Yvonne Braithwaite Burke, a black Cal(Continued on Page 3) Two Arrested Near McGovern Headquarters MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) Two men were taken into custody today by Secret Service agents and the FBI outside Sen.

George McGovern's hotel. Two pistols were taken from their car. Both men were black and wore jeans. They were taken into custody shortly after McGovern concluded a meeting on the 17th floor in the penthouse suite of the Doral Beach Hotel with six Democratic governors. The men apparently arrived in a small sports car with Michigan license plates.

The weapons were taken from their vehicle when authorities searched it, a man who identified himself as an FBI agent said. Keynoter MIAMI BEACH, Fla. Gov. Reubin Askew of Florida tells Democratic Convention delegates in the traditional keynote address that their party is responding to a "new coalition in this country a coalition of protest." (AP Wirephoto) 7 Candidates Eligible To Be Nominated Gunmen Kill 3 In N. Ireland BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) -Gunmen killed three persons early today as Northern Ireland's Protestants got ready for their first big march of the summer.

Automatic fire riddled a 19year-old Protestant walking with his father in a park in the town of Portadown. An hour later, five masked gunmen believed to be Protestant executioners broke into a home in Belfast and" murdered a 16year-old Catholic. And the body of a hooded man, shot in the head, was found in Belfast, apparently another victim of the assassins who have terrorized the city for weeks. Meanwhile, the British government ordered 32,000 troops, police and militiamen into the streets of 18 cities and towns to keep the warring religious factions apart today while 100,000 Protestants of the Orange Order paraded. Belfast was lit by scores of street bonfires during the night, marking the advent of the "Glorious Twelfth." It is the 282nd anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne, in which the Protestant armies of William of Orange defeated the Roman Catholic forces of James II.

Amid politicians' warnings that Northern Irleand is closer to civil war than at any time in the three years of communal violence, the militant Protestants of the Ulster Defense Association said their armed units would protect the marchers from attack by the Catholics of the Irish Republican Army. Government forces cordoned the line of march in Belfast to block attacks by Catholics enraged by the display of Protestant dominance. Catholics of the Anderson stown, Bally mufphy and Ardoyne districts sealed off their sectors with barricades of concrete and steel to keep out Protestant raiders. Trouble was feared in a town of 13,000 population 25 miles southwest of Belfast. The route of the parade there ran through a Catholic section, and the IRA said it would not allow the marchers through.

The UDA said it was prepared for a showdown. The buildup to the parades was ominous. The Provisional wing of the IRA on Sunday night called off a truce it had ordered two weeks before, and the shooting and bombing since has been worse than ever. At least 13 persons have been killed, bringing the recorded death toll to 417 in three years. The army said that in Belfast alone there had been 210 shooting incidents between 8 a.m.

Tuesday and 4:30 a.m. today. It said soldiers were not involved in 83 of them, implying that they were attacks of Catholics on Protestants or vice versa. MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) Seven candidates are eligible to have their names placed in nomination tonight to be the Democratic presidential standard bearer.

The names of Sens. George McGovern and Henry M. Jackson, former Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy, Reps.

Shirley Chisholm and Wilbur D. Mills, Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace arid former North Carolina Gov. Terry Sanford were submitted before the 6 p.m.

deadline Tuesday. The Rules Committee scheduled a drawing this morning for the order in which the names would be placed in nomination for tonight's balloting. Under the new rules, each presidential candidate will be allowed a total of 15 minutes for his nominating speech and two seconding speeches. The new rules aiso say: "Delegates and alternates shall maintain order during and following nominations for the office of president, and demonstrating on behalf of candidates shall not be permitted." Wallace Cheered MIAMI BEACH, Fla. Gov.

George C. Wallace of Alabama, seated in his wheelchair on the speakers platform at the Democratic National Convention, responds to the cheers that greeted his appearance to give his views on the proposed party platform. (AP Wirephoto) Wallace Given Foot-Stomping, Cheering Ovation Heavy Fighting Reported On 3 Sides Of Quang Tri City SAIGON (AP) Heavy fighting was reported on three sides of Quang Tri City as tank-led North Vietnamese forces for the sixth straight day blocked a government drive to recapture the provincial capital. The Saigon military command claimed 198 North Vietnamese soldiers were killed and four tanks destroyed in five battles north, east and south of Quang Tri City on Tuesday and today. First reports said 29 South Vietnamese soldiers were killed and 69 wounded.

Nearly all of the government casualties were reported in the helicopter landing of several hundred South Vietnamese marines a mile north of Quang Tri City at noon Tuesday. Three U.S. Marine helicopters were shot down, and two of the American crewmen were reported wounded. The North Vietnamese launched one counterattack just before dawn today Russian Is Favored in Opening Chess Game REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) Defending champion Boris. Spassky was favored by the experts to beat American challenger Bobby Fischer in the opening game of the world chess match when play resumes this afternoon.

The opener of the richest chess competition in history adjourned Tuesday night after 4 hours and 34 minutes of play and 40 moves by each player. The game was to resume at 5 p.m.--1 p.m. EOT. Referee Lothar Schmid of West Germany will make Spassky's 41st move. The Russian wrote it on a slip of paper and handed it to him in a sealed envelope at the adjournment.

The two competitors, their seconds and chess enthusiasts throughout the world spent part of the overnight break analyzing possibilities for the II pieces remaining on the green-and-white chessboard in Reykjavik's" sports and five pawns for Fischer; king, bishop and three pawns for Spassky. The match had appeared headed for a draw until Fischer tried to seize the initiative on his 29th move. The lanky Brooklyn, N.Y., challenger galloped his bishop down a long black diagonal to snatch an unprotected pawn Spassky had offered. A few moves later the bishop was trapped and lost in exchange for two pawns. U.S.

grandmaster Robert Byrne said it was a blunder and commented, "Fischer is going to have trouble making a draw. I don't see how Spassky can lose." Analyzing the game for The Associated Press, international grandmaster Isaac Kashdan termed Fischer's move "a rare miscalculation by the American genius." He said it gave Spassky good prospects for a win. Svetozar Gligoric, the Yugoslav grandmaster present at the tournament, said, "It is doubtful whether black can save a draw." Spassky, who had the first move, is playing the white nieces, Fischer the black. Fischer has played Spassky five limes in the past, losing all three times ho played the black pieces and getting draws both times he played the whites and had the advantage of the first move. A draw counts half a point and a win a point in the 24game championship match.

To dethrone Spassky, Fischer needs 12'A point while the Russian can retain his crown with 12 points. The winner will get $153,125 in prize money, the loser $91,875, and in addition they will divide equally an estimated $55,000 or more from film and television sales. and seized hilltop positions from South Vietnamese paratroopers to the southwest, Associated Press correspondent Dennis Neeld reported from the front. Neeld said several battalions of South Vietnamese paratroopers on the edges of Quang Tri City were being pounded by long-range North Vietnamese artillery fire. Allied planes were striking at the city, field reports said, but they were hampered by windstorms whipping up sand and reducing the pilots' visibility.

Radio Hanoi announced today that a Communist Peoples' Revolutionary Committee was established last month to rule Quang Tri Province, which the North Vietnamese captured in May and are now defending against the South Vietnamese counterattack. The broadcast quoted a communique by the Viet Cong's National Liberation Front dated July 5 but gave no reason why the announcement had been held up for a week. The U.S. 7lh Fleet in a delayed report announced that the destroyers Robison and Hull sank 13 barges off the coast of North Vietnam 30 miles northeast of Dong Hoi before dawn Monday. The barges were unloading supplies from a freighter, presumed to be Chinese, but the freighter was noi attacked, sources said.

In the air war, U.S. fighterbombers flew more than 290 strikes against North Vietnam on Tuesday, the U.S. Command said, and knocked out a 300. foot highway bridge 40 miles northeast of Hanoi with laser-guided bombs. MIAMI BEACH, Fla.

(AP; Crippled Gov. George C. Wallace received a foot-stomping, cheering ovation from thousands at the Democratic National Convention Tuesday night. Wallace delegates in the Texas and other state delegations waved posters as their candidate for president was lifted in his wheelchair to a box behind the podium. Wallace, only four days out of the hospital, spoke quietly and firmly from notes.

He had no prepared text. Wallace came to the convention to urge the adoption of his platform proposals on busing, Vietnam, prayers in public schools and tax reform. The great hall, packed with 13,400 delegates and visitors, and thousands of newsmen, was quieter than it had been since the opening gavel Monday. It was Wallace's first appearance before a large crowd since he was shot in a Laurel, shopping center May 15, the eve of Maryland and Michigan primaries--two of six that he won. The Alabama governor looked fit and alert as he leaned into the podium.

Viewers on television could not tell that he was sitting in a wheelchair, but they saw pictures of him being lifted onto the podium boxes. The governor's wife, Cornelia, his three (laughters and his mother sat in a box to the far right of Wallace. Mrs. Wallace told reporters, "He's very excited about speaking. I think lie's very pleased that he can be there." Mrs.

Wallace appeared tense when her husband was brought into the hall. The convention had already seen unprecedented security measures- searches of handbags and briefcases, repeated slops by hundreds of security men. But as the time for Wallace's entry approached, security men appeared to be everywhere. Newsmen were cautioned to remain in their seats. When Chairman Lawrence F.

O'Brien introduced the governor, the band broke into the Alabama state anthem and the hall exploded in sound. But the crowd grew quiet within two minutes. Still, it was one of the most dramatic appearances at a convention since Robert F. Kennedy spoke to the 1964 Democratic gathering in Atlantic City-- the year after his brother, John, was felled by assassin's bullets. Wallace spoke for 12 minutes.

The crowd then again sang the Alabama state song and cheered as the governor was lifted from the podium by three agents. However, the cheering was not universal. The California delegation sat unmoving, as a bloc. There were some boos elsewhere. The podium, rising more than 20 feet from the convention floor, had specially built ramps to accommodate the governor's wheelchair.

Once in front of the (Continued on Pane 3) Sets Record MIAMI BEACH, (AP) The second session of the 36th Democratic National Convention ended at 6:22 a.m. EOT today after setting a record for the longest session in convention history. When it recessed until 7 p.m. EOT today it had been in session 11 hours and four minutes. iKokomn in 1 'i Temperature: high 90; low 73.

At 10 A.M. 84; Humidity 79 per cent. Wind: 10 mph. Barometer: 30.19. 1-2-3: Partly cloudy very warm and humid today with a chance of late afternoon and evening thunderstorms.

Mostly cloudy and continued humid Thursday with a chance of afternoon thunderstorms. High today around 90, tow tonight near 70 and high Thursday upper 80s. Chance of rain 30 per cent today, tonight and 40 per cent tomorrow. Today's Chuckle Nothing makes a man work like being "debt propelled.".