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The Miami Herald from Miami, Florida • 49

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The Miami Heraldi
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Miami, Florida
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49
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BREVARD EDITION 10 Cents 62nd No 213 Complete Newspaper Two Lilm American Edition! Art Publitned Daily 154 Pages Vusim Issue Stirs Little Excitement McGovern Finds Dixie Friendly KtmuwtimymiUH twmtiMunuiiniiLiiiiM mu utiupuftiwt aitMM-iawifliiin They Want W'allace as No 2 13A Georgia Delegate Shift Ordered 14A Anti-McGovern Forces Emerge 14A House Demos Decry Party's Reforms 15 A Ted Beats McGovern in Poll 16A McGovern Assails Southern Strategy 20A was no reason to question him further OR IT could be that this section of the country which has been under a microscope for so long is slowly pulling ahead of the rest of the country on the deepest running domestic issue race As southern historians and unregenerated southern romantics will tell you the South may be destined to show the North how the races can at last come That kind of southern renaissance a long-standing dream of old populists and modern liberals writers and civil rights leaders may be some distance away But for the limited purpose of the 1972 elections experiences may be an indication that Atlanta Ga is ahead of Pontiac Mich and that the problems between the races including busing may not provide as Turn to Page 20A CoL I about him true a curious thing happened Or rather it was curious because it happen Unlike the allegedly liberal states in the North and West where the question was asked of McGovern constantly and in a hundred different ways very rarely during his visits to Oklahoma Texas Arkansas Georgia and South Carolina was he asked about busing Local reporters convention delegates politicians and plain people wanted to By SAUL FRIEDMAN Herald Washington Bureau ATLANTA As most southern historians will tell you in some ways economically and politically the South is behind the rest of the country And yet as Sen George McGovern whose -utation as a radical preceded him in these parts came through Dixie to show that what they say NEWS ANALYSIS They did not always agree with him Many remained skeptical and opposed to him for president But they bother him about busing Maybe southerners knew his stand and decided there- know how McGovern felt about a lot of things defense budget cuts his tax and welfare programs amnesty the Vietnam war and his plans to help the Southern economy Press Wirephoto McGoverns Arrive in South Carolina Gov John West greets them at Columbia 10000 I Troop Draftees Freed of Viet Tours over Broward County But instead of dropping paratroopers the tight formation of aging aircraft unleash a spray to combat enemy forces of mosquitoes Lee County provides the planes It underbid a Bombing Run Like a scene out of World War II twin-engine C47 planes swoop at tree-top level Broward aviation firm by $6000 for the spraying contract The pilots have FAA approval for flying at altitudes under 1000 feet Rights Issues' Cited French N-Test Called Perfect High Court Shirks Its Job Ted Says Area of South Viet Puh into Quang 7 ri Province held by enemy 10000 South Viets Push Northward Under Air Cover Hrold Photo by JEFF JOFFE was preparing to sail this af- ternoon for the test area from Tauranga New Zealand 100 miles south of Wellington In Wellington New Zealand Prime Minister John Marshall said Wednesday night that he would seek confirmation that the tests had begun but would not send a protest note to France no point in wasting more paper and time in he said The French government answered charges that tests were harmful to the environments of Pacific nations by saying that the blasts were low-yield and sufficiently removed from population centers France is the only major Western power not to have signed the nuclear non-proliferation treaty France and China are the only nations still carrying out nuclear tests in the atmosphere Nixon Plans 9 pm TV Press Talk WASHINGTON (UPI) President Nixon will hold a nationally broadcast news conference at 9 tonight in the East Room the White House announced Wednesday It will be the first televised news conference Nixon has held since June 1 1971 and the first time in more than a year that the White House has announced a press conference in advance Nixon held a news conference his third this year last Thursday in his Oval Office but limited questioning mainly to domestic issues He said at that time that his next news conference would be wide open to questions on foreign policy defense and domestic issues Nixon is expected to fly to California Friday for three weeks returning to Washington in late July court including Chief Justice Warren Burger KENNEDY ALSO told the hearing it will be necessary to defeat Nixon in November if full individual rights are to be realized the administration refuses to recognize that the voices of each individual taxpayer deserve the same receptive audience as the corporate directors of ITT then we must look to the voting booths in November to change our national leader- he said must restore the promise and the sense of progress that we used to he added must get back to the comforting hope that America can be made to embrace the dreams of all our Piet Anxiety 20 A New Commander 26A Bombing Probe 26A A Smart Bomb? 26 4 By JAMES McCARTNEY Herald Washington Bureau WASHINGTON President Nixon Wednesday ordered the US trcop level in Vietnam cut by 10000 more men and announced that no more draftees will be sent to the war zone unless they volunteer The reduction will bring the troop level in Vietnam to 39000 by Sept 1 A goal of 49000 had been set for July 1 The new schedule lowers the rate of withdrawal to 5000 a month It has been 10000 a month in recent months and at its peak was more than 20000 WHITE HOUSE Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler said however that the new withdrawal amounts to a 20 per cent cut of Vietnam forces The decision to stop sending draftees to Vietnam which will be welcomed warmly by anti-war groups on the campuses will take effect immediately Ziegler said About 4000 draftees all of them in the Army are now in the US force in Vietnam Those on hand will be required to finish their tours Draftees who have their orders to go to Vietnam must proceed as scheduled Ziegler said but no more draftees Turn to Page 2A Col 3 phers for two minutes of his time After 15 minutes in the hotel Spassky returned to the court with Nei a tall bald man with broad shoulders and a cannonball serve To the delight of a group of Icelandic children who shagged balls for the players Nei commenced to thrash Spassky in two straight sets despite the fact that he sometimes appeared purposely to be duffing his shots Because of the great physical strain of the 24-game chess championship beginning next Sunday both Spassky and Fischer have been working out regularly for months Fischer 29 expected to arrive today is a good tennis player and swimmer He is six years vounger than the WASHINGTON' (UPI) Sen Edward Kennedy (D Mass) Wednesday accused the Supreme Court of backing away from its responsibility to preserve the rights and equality of Americans "The Supreme Court had been the senior partner in protecting the guarantees of human justice for all Americans during the past 20 years" Kennedy told a meeting of the Black Caucus the black members of Congress i IN recent months their decisions by narrow votes have begun to turn back the sanctity of many safeguards we thought were he said the court pull its fair share in the struggle for equality then we in the Congress will bear a greater responsibility to revive the flagging Kennedy did not refer to specific court decisions The most recent was 5- 4 vote refusing to consider the constitutionality of Army spying on civilian political activities The court has been noticeably more conservative on several issues lately especially since President Nixon appointed Justices William Rehnquist and Lewis Powell considered conservative on most subjects Nixon has appointed four members of the WHERE TD FIND IT Protester Stubborn PAPETTJE Tahiti (UPI) The newspaper Journal de Tahiti announced Wednesday the first French nuclear test in the current series and called it technically perfect Quoting informed but unofficial sources the newspaper said in a front-page article that the explosion occurred about noon Sunday in deepest secrecy in the vicinity of Mururoa atol 800 miles southwest of here The article said the second test was scheduled for Saturday or Sunday depending on weather conditions The journal said that the test was technically perfect and that those responsible for it were satisfied The French Defense' Ministry declined comment on the report as did the Nuclear Experimentation Center in Paris which coordinates atomic testing in the Pacific The ministry indicated Tuesday that no official comment would be forthcoming on the tests until the series was completed presumably sometime later this summer In the past each explosion has been disclosed as it occurred Observers suggested that the policy change was caused by increasing foreign criticism of continued French nuclear testing especially by Australia New Zealand and countries along the west coast of South America Observers in Papeete said the yacht Greenpeace III with several protesters abroad had been escorted from the test range by French naval vessels before explosion and taken back to Papeete with its crew Another yacht manned by members of the French Nuclear Test Protest Committee Today's Chuckle said the disenchanted spouse can you expect from a person who was raised by your Just Another Product Of Her Generation? Soviet Chess Icy Calm Is Melted by Clicking Cameras SAIGON (UPI) More than 10000 South Vietnamese troops advanced through Quang Tri Province Wednesday behind a pulverizing US air and naval bombardment in a drive aimed at retaking the only province cf South Vietnam captured by the enemy A South Vietnamese spokesman said two brigades of paratroopers and two brigades of marines backed by at least a pair of tank squadrons crossed the My Chanh River northern defense line before dawn and by evening had pushed up to five miles into Quang Tri Province Battlefield reports said the VCr 'j i 4 I I A i XV- 5 4 lU-r Boris Siaky stains away Scuth Vietnamese were advancing against stiff North Vietnamese resistance A government spokesman said 235 of the enemy were killed during the first stages of the drive while the South Viet- namese lost seven killed and 41 wounded MILITARY sources said many other South Vietnamese units joined the original 10000-man force during the day Dut the Saigon Command imposed an embargo on news abcut the additional forces In Saigon the US Command said about 75 Air Force B52s dumped 1900 tons of bombs on Quang Tri Province just ahead of the advancing troops The command said another 30 B52s dropped 750 tons of bombs on TTiua Thien Province just below the My Chanh River to keep the enemy from skirting around and attacking the rear of the advancing troops THE COMMAND said 17 US cruisers and destroyers from the Seventh Fleet in the Gulf of Tonkin turned their big guns shoreward Wednesday to batter enemy positions in Quang Tri Province Lt Col Do Dang Bo offi-c i a I government military spokesman in upper South Vietnam said the marines and paratroopers were advancing on the ground along a 12-mile-wide front up the Gulf of Tonkin coast He said the paratroopers on the western half pushed to four miles above the river while the marines on the cast droe five miles from the My Chanh COLUMBUS Ohio AP) Ann Upshure went to jail when she refused to post $10 bond for hitchhiking on Interstate 71 near here A driver had stopped and told the New York City traveler that it was illegal to hitchhike on an interstate highway but Mrs Upshure give up Then Ohio Highway Patrolman Burkhardt warned her but she held her ground hoping for a ride She got one directly to Columbus City Correctional Institute Burkhardt arrested Mrs Upshure writing on the ticket that she became when taken into custody Mrs Upshure had $38 in her purse but refused to pay the $10 hitchhiking fine Bond was set at $10 and she went off to jail Mrs Upshure listing her occupation as came to trial Wednesday before Franklin County Municipal Court Judge Joseph Clifford She told Clifford she was returning home from St Louis after taking part in "A labor for peace rally" The judge fined her $10 then suspended the fine After all how tough can a judge be with a defendant 84 year? old? A i 1 REYKJAVIK Iceland (AP) Russian Boris Spassky who has a reputation for glacial calm displayed an outburst of nerves Wednesday less than a week before he defends his world chess title against American Bobby Fischer Spassky stormed off a tennis court and went to his hotel to sulk after three photographers began taking pictures of him with Jivo Nei a compatriot helping him train-for the match are ruining our program" Spassky said is a daily routine which I must get on The photographers were not interfering with his game as they stood outside a fence that circles the asphalt The Russian refused ft quests from the photogra.

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