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6C ft By JAMES WIEGHART Washington, June 26 (NEWS Bureau) The Stop Mc-Covern movement got under way in earnest today as Sen. Hubert II. Humphrey (Minn.) led other Democratic presidential hopefuls in challenging Sen. George S. McGovern's hold on the key 271-vote California delegation.

that the committee bowed "to naked, political force." Rauh said that the party reform commission, originally headed by McGovern, set up guidelines to insure maximum participation of all groups within the party in the delegate selection process but did not outlaw win-n r-t a e-a 1 1 presidential primaries. But Humphrey, in a statement submitted to hearing examiner Burke Marshall, a former assist fir J1 frZiP2' -f i At issue is whether California's I winner-take-all primary won by McGovern June 6 violates the law and spirit of the reform movement designed to give representation to all the various groups and factions within the Democratic Party. Humphrey, who agreed with the winner-take-all concept before the California vote was in, now contends that McGovern is only entitled to 44'c or 120 of the state's 271 delegates since the South Dakota senator only got that percentage of the popular vote. Among 80 Challenges Under Humphreys calculations, he would receive 106 delegates to reflect his 39.2 of the vote, and the remaining 45 delegates would be split up among the seven other Democrats on the ballot. The California dispute is only one of 80 challenges involving 1,281 delegates from 30 states and Puerto Kico which must be resolved by the party's Credentials Committee before the convention convenes in Miami Beach in two weeks.

But because it is by far the largest and its pits McGovern directly against Humphrey and his other challengers, it is certain to attract the lion's share of attention during the deliberations of the 150-member Credentials Committee panel. Washington attorney Joseph Rauh. who represented McGovern, said Humphrey's challenge asks the Credentials Committee to change "the rules of the game after the game is over when the participants in the game agrees to the rules before the game." The only explanation for such a ruling, Rauh said, would be Associated Press Wireptoto Patricia Roberts Harris, who chairs Democratic Credentials Committee, confers with Minnesota delegate Patric Foley (left) and Ohio delegate Frank King during break in committee proceedings. Boos IPfflrits-ari, EStaouD IP By JEROME CAHILL Washington, June 26 (NEWS Bureau) The Platform Committee of the 1972 Democratic National Convention, setting the stage for a floor fight with backers of Alabama Gov. George C.

Wallace at Miami Beach, adopted today a strong plank endorsing school busing as a tool to eliminate "illegal segregation" in public education. ant attorney general in the Kennedy administration, said that the failure to give proportionate delegate representation to other candidates on the California bal lot denied two million California Democrats of "a full, meaning- full and timely opportunity to participate" in the party con vention process. Muskie Joins Drive Humphrey pointed out that almost 1.9 million of the 3.4 million Democratic votes cast in the Cali- I fornia primary were for himself and seven other Democrats. To deny the non-McGovern forces representation at Miami Beach, he said, "could mean the difference between success and failure in November" against President Nixon. Joining Humphrey in the California challenge were Sens.

Edmund S. Muskie (Maine) and Henry M. Jackson Rep. Shirley Chisholm (N.Y.) and former Sen. Eugene J.

McCarthy Marshall said he would report his findings to the full committee Tuesday. The committee will rule on the group of challenges Tuesday. It is not expected to get to California before next week. were rebuffed, 78 to 18, when they offered a plank opposing busing for racial balance. They promised to bring the issue to the convention floor xfext month.

Peace Plank Ready The Platform Committee also had before it a plank calling for "immediate and complete withdrawal of all United States forces in Indochina." The draft plank noted that a majority of Democrats in the Senate have called for full withdrawal by Oct. 1, 1972. Flseber? Reykjavik, June 26 (UPI) World chess champion Boris Spassky of Russia said be did not understand why U.S. challenger Bobby Fischer of Brooklyn' failed to show up in Iceland today as planned. Fischer will play Spassky in a 24-game match for the world title starting Jury 2 in Reykjavik.

2 Seek PVofoe of Vtm By CHARLES DUMAS Albany, June 26 (NEWS Bureau) Asembly Steingut of Brooklyn and City Councilman Matthew a city-state inquiry into confusion and delays in last joined today in calling for uesday primary voting, "It is imperative that some thing be done now so that similar situations do not recur," the Democratic leaders declared in a joint statement issued at the Capitol. Cite "Incredible Delays' Steingut and Troy, who heads the Council's Committee on State Legislation, prescribed a study by a special city-state committee that would recommend corrective action to both the Legislature and the council. "In the Board of Election's attempt to streamline the election By a vote of 70 to 27, the i committee went beyond a milder plank dealing with the controversial issue that was offered by a 15-member drafting subcommittee. That plank referred to busing only as a tool for "quality education" but made no mention of segregation. Supporters of Wallace, whose presidential campaign has been keyed to his antibusing stand, Minority J.

Trov Leader Stanley Queens Jr. of "Once in the booth, the voter was confronted with a ballot which defied a genius to understand," they said. Among other things, the leaders said, voters were unable to identify convention delegates with the presidential candidates they supported and were unable to pick out slates of state committee candidates. "Our system of government rests entirely on the orderly election process, and this has completely disintegrated in New York City and elsewhere in the state," they contended. Park after being greeted by coun try music.

1 At a press conference following the rally, he warned in answer to a question: "If the nomination is denied to me now, you would have a shattering of the kind of coalition needed to defeat President Nixon next fall. A Promise on Viet Promising that if he were President he would end the bombing in North Vietnam "this afternoon," he charged that Nixon was "cynical enough to have a timetable where the war ends the day before the election." McGovern held privme confer ences here with the Oklahoma congressional delegation, Demo cratic county chairmen and state labor leaders. Sums "We support that position," the proposed language said. The plank pledged that if the war Is not ended before the next Democratic administration takes office, "we pledge as a first order of business an immediate and complete withdrawal." Managers of the presidential campaign of Sen. George S.

McGovern who claimed today to have cinched a first-bal lot nomination, had limited suc cess their efforts to keep the platform couched in general terms, avoiding specifics that might cause difficulties in the campaign. They were able to heat down, 61 to 27, a move by the Black Caucus for endorsement of a welfare assistance grant to neeay lamnies, ana an attempt to include a can ior detailed tax reform, including repeal of a number of popular deductions. Mavericks Break Out But McGovern mavericks within the committee successfully nushed through a number of amendments, including a call for the breakup of the auto, steel and tire industries, and an attack on welfare reform legislation, now pending in Congress as inhumane and inadequate. Norman Bie of Lakewood, a Wallace delegate, toia ihe News that supporters of the Alabama governor intend to submit a Wallace platform to the convention, in the form of minority reports attacking planks approved by the majority. Bie disclosed the strategy after the failure of an attempt by McGovern forces to mollify the alia ceites by including some of their proposed language into the platform.

The gesture came dur- "I don't know why he didn't arrive," Spassky said. Then he added with a broad smile, "only Commander in Chief Fischer knows." But Spassky, 35, said he was confident that Fischer would turn np in time. Fischer bad been scheduled tq arrive from New York early -today but, officials said, he canceled his booking at the last minute. ing committee discussion of a plank dealing with jobs, prices and taxes. James Rosapepe, a young McGovern delegate from Virginia, sponsored the antimonopoly resolution which urged action to "de-concentrate shared monopolies which.

Administer prices, create unemployment through restricted output and stifle technological innovation." It was adopted 67 to 36. But Rosapepe ran into heavy opposition from such McGovern leaders as Joseph Duffey of Connecticut on the detailed tax re form proposals. Duffey said the language would be "too binding" on the party nominee and noted that a number of the deductions to be repealed under the proposal were of "crucial" importance to workers, such as medical and mortgage interest deductions. Rep. Roman Pucinski (D-Ill.) objected to the committee's attack on pending welfare reform, which passed the House with the support of many Democrats.

But Alton Rayaek of Rhode Island said that was no reason for en dorsing the measure. Anne Kunze of South Dakota added that the bill was "a mishmash." McG Claims First-Ballot Victory process," they said, "the people of the city have been disenfranchised. Mass confusion and incredible delays prevented thousands of voters from exercising their right at the ballot box." The board's decision to combine election districts in order to cover larger areas, they said, meant that many voters had to walk up to 13 blocks to their polling place, discouraging older persons from voting altogether. People who made it to the polls, they continued, had to wait up to two hours to sign in and another hour to get into a voting booth. tory commissions and at all levels of government.

He added that the same treatment will be accorded, if he is elected President, to Mexican-Americans, Indians and other minorities. But he said he had made no commitment as to the names of individual. The Agriculture Job In Oklahoma City, McGovern promised that if he is elected president the next secretary of agriculture will be a "working dirt farmer." Oklahoma presently lists 13 McGovern delegates and 26 uncommitted. McGovern, in loosened tie and in shirtsleeves, under a blazing sun, spoke to an excited crowd of several thousand, most of them young people, at the Civic Center (Continued from page 2) had picked up reven more previously uncommitted delegates and that a recheck was being conducted to pee if the magic 1509 had been passed Flanked by members of the congressional Black Caucus and Mrs. Coretta King, widow of Dr.

Martin Luther King McGovern pledged that black voices "will be heard with more clarity and with greater force than ever before." He said that he has promised that blacks will be represented in the federal government in proportion to their more than 10 of the population, and would be represented on the Supreme Court, the Cabinet, subcabinet, regula.

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