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1 THE RED DEER ADVOCATE 10 CENTS RED DEER, ALBERTA, MONDAY, JULY 10, 1972 SUNNY, HIGHS 65-70 McGovern tilts for delegates MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) Senator George McGovern rejected today the bid of Senator Edmund S. Muskie to settle the California seating dispute at a closed meeting before tonight's opening of the Democratic presidential nominating convention. "I really see nothing to be gained at a closed meeting of this kind," McGovern told a hallway news conference at Muskie's hotel. "I see little to be gained in locking the doors with the six stop-McGovern candidates and then trying to reach a compromise on California," McGovern said.

He said the decision on the California delegation should be in the hands of the delegates to the convention. He said he had hoped that Muskie would come out in favor of adhering to the winner-takeall rule of the California primary. A convention credendials committee ruling took 151 of the 271 California delegates away from McGovern on grounds that there should be proportional representation with other candidates who ran in that primary. McGovern said he would consider attending the meeting only if representatives of the writing and broadcast press are present aS well as representatives of both sides of the California dispute. Starting time for the main convention business is 7:30 p.m.

-an hour chosen for the benefit of prime-time television. McGovern, nine days a away from his 50th birthday has scheduled a series of during the day with delegations from such important states as Ohio and Texas. He has also called on Gov. Milton Shapp of Pennsylvania to join him here and help his campaign. With his delegate support approaching the 1.509 needed to win the presidential nomination, the South Dakota senator faces the first--and probably most important of his obstacles tonight when the convention votes on the makeup of 14 state delegations whose membership has been challenged.

Included are two of the biggest, California and Illinois, where a loss of supporters to his opponents could cost McGovern the nomination when voting takes place Wednesday night. Senator Hubert Humphrey, leader of the loosely-allied stopMcGovern forces, was also due to be out today, beating the tropical bushes of this garish resort for wavering delegates who might back his efforts to keep California and Illinois delegates out of McGovern's camp. The floor fight promises to be bitter, divisive--and totally confusing. Some of the closest votes could well come on whether the convention chairman, Larry O'Brien, was correct in a pair of rulings he made known Sunday, concerning which delegates can vote on which issues and how many votes are needed to win. O'Brien.

chairman of the Democratic national committee who will be present tonight, said he would rule that McGovern deeded a majority of only 1,433 votes to win back the 151 California delegates. It had been expected earlier that McGovern would need 1,509 votes-a simple majority of the whole convention-to prevail. But with the 151 disputed delegates barred from voting on the credentials issue, O'Brien said the winning margin would be reduced to 1,433. The only other candidate with substantial support here, Gov. George Wallace of Alabama, remained secluded Sunday while his supporters held a round of meetings.

Whitelaw rejected IRA terms Refuses closed parley HOURS LATER TRUCE ENDED, SEVEN DIED LONDON (CP) William Whitelaw, minister for Northern Ireland, disclosed today that he met secretly with Irish Republican Army leaders last Friday and that he rejected their heavy demands. Whitelaw, reporting to the House of Commons on the resumption of violence by the IRA, said the terrorists virtually demanded complete surrender of British policy in Ulster including insistence that the entire island have the right to decide the future of the six counties. Emphasizing that it is his continued policy to separate the terrorists from the majority of Ulstermen who want peace, Whitelaw called on the IRA to restore the truce broken Sunday night when at least seven persons were killed and 26 injured, including 16 soldiers, in a clash over housing displaced Roman Catholic families. Whitelaw made a brief visit today to the explosive province for ugent consultations with military chiefs as civil war fears spread with the end of the IRA ceasefire. After a quick meeting with his advisers, Whitelaw flew back to London to report to the House of Commons.

The greatest fear now is an armed confrontation between the IRA and the para-military UDA. This could bring the British army into conflict with both sides. TRIAL BEGINS Kozo Okamoto, the 24-year-old Japanese terrorist who survived the Tel Aviv airport massacre May 30, sits manacled to two security guards during opening of his trial today in Lod, Israel. He offered a plea of guilty, but the Israeli military court rejected it. Story on Page 12.

Yippees keep cool MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) Yippies gobbled up watermelon had been made up as carithat of President Nixon's face cature Park as part of the at Flamingo to today's opening of the non-delegates' final protests prior Democratic national convention. Elsewhere Sunday, some 200 backers of Students for a Democratic Society held a protest march at the swank Playboy Plaza Hotel where major cial contributors to the Democratic party gave a dinner. Kennedy stays away HYANNISPORT, Mass. (AP) Senator Edward Kennedy, keeping a firm grip on his neustand in the choice of the trality Democratic presidential candidate, spent the weekend sailing his new 54-foot yacht and on planned more of the same as delegates struggled over credentials and the nomination at the Miami Beach site of the party's convention.

Kennedy is remaining aloof from the convention, rejecting any idea of accepting a nomination for vice-president and repeating his stand that he has no desire to run for president this year, reports persist from Miami Beach that bring Kennedy's name into tion possibilities. While Kennedy is not there, he has representation at Miami Beach, nevertheless. His wife Joan flew there last week and several of his aides are also there. However, a spokesman said the aides' job is to keep tab on what is going on and to "downplay" any moves to draft Kennedy for the nomination. Bor wats 1 -1 Wiks CAL A that 1: Senior citizens from Miami Beach's vast retirement community were to be honored guests at the picnic sponsored by the Youth International Party, but few showed up.

"We wouldn't take your food," said one silver-haired resident when offered melon, organic bread and vegetable stew from the Yippie table. Sheriff's deputies, poised with yard-long billy clubs, watched the march by the SDS protesters who chanted "Men and women, black and white. Ford ain't getting in tonight" in reference to auto magnate Henry Ford II. Guests, ushered through the protesters, were members of the Democratic Sponsors Club which requires a $1,000 donation to join. Wheat sale anticipated WINNIPEG (CP) Chief commissioner G.

N. Vogel of the Canadian wheat board said Sunday President Nixon's announcement of a $750-million sale to the Soviet Union of U.S.grown grains over the next three years will be followed by a similar announcment from the wheat board. In an interview, Mr. Vogel said the Soviet Union has been negotiating with the Canadian wheat board for "primarily feed grains" and an announcement could be expected within the next few days. He declined to release any further details of the announcement.

Earlier this year, the Soviet Union signed a one-year agreement to purchase $3.5 million worth of grain from Canada beginning Aug. 1, the start of the new crop year. Tornado hits campground THREE HILLS (CP) A small tornado hit a campsite about 50 miles northeast of Calgary late Saturday, causing damage but injuring no one. RCMP said several camping units and tents were struck by winds from the funnel-shaped cloud which originated with a thunderstorm. They estimated damage at the Frog Gap Provincial campground, two miles from town, at $2,000.

WASHOUT These sections of the Alberta Resources Railway between Grande Prairie and Grande Cache have been washed away by the recent Smoky River floods. CN officials say it is the worst natural disaster to strike a Canadian railway since the 1948 flood that swept the Fraser Valley in British Columbia. CN engineers say it will take two weeks to estimate damage. The saga of O. C.

Henry LOS ANGELES (AP) A 29-year-old man was taken to hospital Sunday with ous injuries after a 51-pound watermelon was dropped on him from a second-storey window, police said. Officers said 0.C. Henry had been arguing with his girl-friend, Ofena Jones, 25, and left the apartment they shared. Henry told police he was standing beneath a window when she shouted at him. He said he looked up and saw the melon falling.

He suffered a broken right shoulder, two broken ribs and a punctured lung, officers said. Police said they were seeking Miss Jones for questioning. Chess genius Fischer still out of sorts grandmaster, accompanied by two advisers and officials of the Icelandic Chess Federation, entered the hall at 1 a.m., only hours after a special chair he had demanded was flown in from New York. It was not known just what did not satisfy Fischer who is scheduled to begin play Tuesday with Russia's Spassky, the present world champion. COMMANDOS ARRIVE About 600 Royal Marine commandos were sent to Ulster to strengthen the security forces now under renewed attack by the IRA.

Their arrival brought the total strength of the British troops in Northern Ireland to about 15,500, the largest number on duty there since the troubles began 1969. Army sources said the movement of the marine commandos had been arranged before Sunday night's announcement by the Provisionals that the 13-day ceasefire had ended and hostilities against British forces would be resumed "with utmost ferocity." Within hours. seven persons, including a Roman Catholic priest a 13-year-old girl, were killed by gunfire and many persons injured, including BLAST 15 soldiers. EFFECT NO-GO AREAS The end of the truce has shocked Parliament and the government although it did not come as a complete surprise. The militancy of the UDA in erecting barricaded "No-Go" Protestant areas and parading their strength was seen as damaging any chance of persuading the Catholics and the IRA that the government was able to control events.

A spokesman for the militant Ulster Van guard predicted: "The final crunch is coming. It could be civil war in a matter of hours, not even days." The Belfast Telegraph said Ulster is on "the edge of disaster." REYKJAVIK (Reuter) Temperamental chess genius Bobby Fischer paid a surprise visit early today to the hall where he will play Boris Spassky for the world chess championship and emerged after a two-hour inspection apparently unsatisfied with a number of arrangements. The 29-year-old American Spassky and his aides examined the hall Sunday and expressed satisfaction with the arrangements. Fischer demanded a chair of the same type he used to beat Spassky, of the Soviet Union in the final match of the candidate series last year in Buenos Aires. The Icelandic federation scoured the island for a similar chair without luck.

However, the crisis was overcome when a chair was airlifted in from the United States. Meanwhile, the two players spent the weekend in contrasting ways, Fischer sleeping much of the time and Spassky sightseeing and fishing for trout and salmon..