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The Miami Herald from Miami, Florida • 107

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The Miami Heraldi
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Miami, Florida
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107
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EDITION 10 Cents 62nd No 213 Action 0 jjne Set1 insih Uni page of this section Thursday June 29 1972 Complete ISeicspaper Two Latin American Edition Art Published Dally 154 Pages Hissing Issue Stirs Little Excitement ixie 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 Want Wallace as No 2 13A Georgia Delegate Shift Ordered 14 A Anti-McGovern Forces Emerge 14 A House Demos Decry Reforms 15 A Ted Beats McGovern in Poll 16 A McGovern Assails Southern Strategy 20A tiwiittnrrifmtBimiiimimmmBTrwnwBBiHt HfflwiwHtt wmiwwiw nwirntfiMiMi nqWiiinMminnBtaBiuiidMwiiiii(uiiigitfKnrtin3ntnnBiBnr niimnBffina nbhi know how McGovern felt They did not always agree about a lot of things de- with him Many remained fense budget cuts his tax skeptical and opposed to him and welfare programs am- for president But they didn't nesty the Vietnam war and bother him about busing his plans to help the Southern Maybe southerners knew economy his stand and decided there Press Wirephot McGoverns Arrive in South Carolina Gov John West greets them at Columbia 'VWiltiyWii'''rWAeir rr rder i 1 k- -w A (A I 1 ''t1 Vy 3 gf V'W -8N Att 'ft -V- i i ViTi' CA'i Broward County But instead of paratroopers the tight formation of aging aircraft unleash a spray to enemy forces of mosquitoes Lee 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 French N-Test Called Perfect Mitchell Wife Go Traveling ogether Area of South Viet Push into Quan Tri Province held by enemy 10000 South Vie Is Push Northward Under Air Cover MARTHA from California where she said the phone had been taken from her by a guard and then ripped from the wall She told of having been mauled that night in California by and she described her feeling of having been The Committee for the Re-election denied that Mrs Mitchell has ever had more than one guard One guard was assigned to her and the former attorney general because after he left the Justice Department the Mitchells lost their Secret Service protection Committee officials say that Mrs Mitchell has been having personal problems which her husband flew to New York to try to straighten out and help for He wants More over dropping combat County Hereld Photo by JEFF JOFFE was preparing to sail this afternoon 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 ore 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 Vietnamese lost seven killed and 41 wounded MILITARY sources said many other South Vietnamese units joined the original 10000-man force during the day but the Saigon Command imposed an embargo on news about 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 Thua 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 1 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 east drove five miles from the My Chanh 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 Draftees Freed of Viet Tours Viet Anxiety 26A New Commander 26A Bombing Probe 26A A Bomb? 26A By JAMES McCARTNEY Herald Washington Bureau WASHINGTON President Nixon Wednesday ordered the US troop 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 younger than the champion By DOROTHY McCARDLE Of Washington Post Wirt WASHINGTON Mr and Mrs John Mitchell left Westchester Country Club in Rye NY Wednesday morning to traveling according to officials here at the Committee for the Re-election of the President Mitchell former attorney general heads the committee do not know where they have gone or when they will be said a committee member But it was learned that before they took off in a pri-v a limousine frem the back door Mitchell and his wife had been together in her eighth floor suite at the club since Monday over their doctors were called in to try to help Mrs said a committee official know whether one cf them was a psychiatrist or not Her husband has been trying to get help for Mitchell flew to New York on Monday after his wife issued an ultimatum to him on a phone call to Helen Thomas of United Press International Sunday night Obviously distraught Mrs Mitchell told Miss Thomas that she had to leave John until he gets out of She had phoned Miss Thomas several nights before WHERE TD FIND IT PAPEETE 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 Chuckle said the disenchanted spouse can you expect from a person who was raised by your 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 of 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 bv evening had pushed up to five miles into Quang Tri Province Battlefield reports said the Boris Spassky storms away Aii Ransom Finder Refuses $10000 PERU Ind (AP) A farmer who found and turned in $500000 dropped by a plane hijacker refused a $10000 gift from American Airlines Wednesday He said he thought the reward should be larger Lowell Elliott 61 who found the mailbag full of money in his field near here Monday turned down the $10000 check offered by Frank Bodwell the Indianapolis district sales manager for American think take it said Elliott sitting in a lawn chair on his back porch when Bodwell offered the check won't get any more if I take Elliott added all they gave that guy (the skyjacker) He said five per cent of the original ransom or $25000 would be acceptable but per cent would be When asked what he would do if the $10000 offer is not made again Elliott said I guess out of luck then ain't He said he grossed about $7000 yearly from the 119-acre farm wife who was on the back porch with her husband said poor people had a heart attack and the reason we thought it (the gift) would be worth She said her husband wanted to see a lawyer before accepting the check 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 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 court The Russian refused requests from the photogra- 7 i.

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