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The Miami Herald from Miami, Florida • 146

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The Miami Heraldi
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146
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Irf i Gandhi-Bhutto Talks Held Up Critical i v' i yv Fri June 30 1972 Air Freight Edition Demos Strip McGovern of 151 Delegates Cm i ed back and forth The bitterness and resentment on both St- -a an hour and a half and the afternoon session lasted an hour The official delegations will meet today at 10 am in another effort to set up a meeting between Mrs Gandhi and Bhutto for discussions on substantive issues A South Vietnamese M48 Tank Lies in My Chanh River After Plunging Off Bridge the accident occurred in the first hours of the government drive into Quang ri 20000-Man South ielnamese orce Drives Five Miles From Quang Tri were moving on Quang Tri City from the southeast paratroopers from the southwest and another government marine column that was landed on beaches by US Marine Corps helicopters was moving down on it from the northeast THE DRIVE code named Lam Son 72 began early Wednesday from the My Chanh River 12 miles south of Quang Tri City and 20 miles north of the old imperial capital of Hue The passageways for the three-pronged advance were opened by what allied mili sides could damage seriously Democratic hopes of victory over President Nixon in November And the action will probably make more difficult search for support among uncommitted delegates The realigment was on grounds that the California winner-take-all primary disenfranchised the 55 per cent of the electorate that voted against McGovern The challengers contended the primary violated in spirit a prohibition by Party Reform Commission against unit rule They said the delegates should have been awarded on a basis proportional to each share of the vote McGOVERN got 442 per cent of primary votes which would leave him with 120 of the state's delegates Under the ruling Humphrey who finished with 393 per cent of the California votes would get 106 delegates Other Democrats who would benefit by loss of 151 delegates include Muskie who would pick up 6 Wallace who would get 16 Chisholm 12 Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty 4 Eugene McCarthy 3 Jackson 2 and John Lindsay 2 According to the Associated Press the decison would reduce current delegate vote total from 13679 to 12169 out of 1509 needed to nominate Humphrey now would have 49605 The state delegations on the committee split along candidate lines with the South going heavily against McGovern CALIFORNIA members of the committee refused to demand that they receive any vote on the question on grounds that four of their 10 members the proportion of the McGovern vote were not subject to the challenge Phillip Isenberg spokesman for the California group and a city councilman from Sacramento said in an interview that the California members did not act because it would have increased the acrimony already present in the proceedings Both sides claimed their chances would be better at the convention of upholding their postions although convention rules would appear to allow the-120 McGovern delegates to vote on the question This would appear to increase their chances of success Referring to his opponents with obvious scorn McGovern accused them of rigging the Credentials Committee to something in the committee room they win from the He said a shabby alliance of people acting from spite and operatives coaxing promising and bullying delegates CHARGES OF fraud and backroom dealing were trad- Dovisliness Risky for McGovern? waiji I Dakota senator that it might be inflammatory NEVERTHELESS the sentence was included in a second copy of the speech prepared but not delivered for appearance before the South Carolina Legislature two days later And when asked about it McGovern said that he would stand by his view that the Vietnam war should not be won "It is an immoral illegal and unjust war which we should never have gotten McGovern explained "and the only way we could win it would be to destroy the Vietnamese people That would be worse than not winning it and getting Most doves have not gone so far as to take the view that the war was a mistake has been too costly and cannot be won Only the most militant anti-war advocates have suggested that the United -States should not win the war Sen William Fulbright (D Ark) a long-time leader of Senate doves has voiced the philosophical view in academic seminars and in his book Arrogance of that the United States would be tempted to intervene elsewhere if it should win in Vietnam BUT UNLIKE McGovern Fulbright is not a presidential candidate who is vulnerable to sharp -campaign attacks On' one other occasion during his southern trip McGovern displayed his deepening abhorrence of the war AnC again he courted trouble! During a meeting with Soufh Carolina delegates McGovern was under cross-examination by a conservative hawk Bill Jones of Greenwood a country prosecutor Their exchange was get-tinglsharper when McGovern wasasked if he favored giving! the North Vietnamese whaj they wanted and begging for the return of American prisoners McGOVERN fired back: is better than Aitd a few minutes later he added: "Our boys are dying in those cells beg go to Hanoi and beg if I thought that- Would release them one day Unlike other doves who when in conservative territory have based their opposition to the war on the losses of "American and the money it has cost McGovern has also pleaded for the saving of Asian lives SIMILA India (UPI) Apparently serious differences prevented a formal meeting Thursday between Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and Pakistani President Zul-fikar Ali Bhutto in their summit conference htTe A Pakistan spokesman said the talks were a very critical The two leaders however saw each other socially Thursday night at dinner and aides to Mrs Gandhi said it was hoped that the talks which began Wednesday could resume at the summit level today The hitch developed as the official delegations met Thursday morning to arrange the second face-to-face meeting of the two heads of state The delegations metagain in the afternoon but were un- able to agree It appeared Thursday night the talks were in danger of seriously bogging down over the same issues that have divided the countries almost from the time they both achieved independence from British rule in 1947 Indian officials however indicated privately Thursday night their stance was not rigid and said they were confident that Mrs Gandhi and Bhutto could meet again to discuss substantive issues The Indian side evidently was pressing for a no-war pledge from Bhutto but was believed willing to settle for his tacit agreement that present lines of demarcation would not be violated stance is not said an Indian official we want is for their side to demonstrate a change in their attitudes of the The morning meeting of the official delegation lasted Back But Still Missing 9 WASHINGTON (UPI) John Mitchell was back in Washington Thursday but the whereabouts of his wife Martha were notiknown The Mitchells left the Westchester Country Club near Rye NY by a back door Wednesday after remaining in seclusion for two days there Mitchell former attorney general now heading President reelection campaign flew to Rye after Mrs Mitchell told Helen Thomas she had given him an ultimatum that she would leave him unless he quit politics They left the country cluo where the Mitchells lived before coming to Washington a private limousine and gave no indication of their destination Their daughter Marty 11-was staying with friends here Committee officials and the White House view the Mitchell affair as a private matter clear skies with few showers The national forecast: The western two-thirds of the nation will be mostly sunny and dry Showers $96-Billion Poverty Bill Approved by Senate 74-16 captured May 1 at the outset of their 13-week-old offensive The US Command said 60 B52s dumped approximately 1500 tons of bombs Thursday in front of the South Vietnamese columns and the smaller tactical fighters flew 202 strikes over Quang Tri and other nearby provinces during the day MILITARY spokesmen said the three advancing columns had killed at least 350 North Vietnamese troops in the seven-mile advance since the drive opened and government losses were given as 15 dead and 50 wounded fighting has been only moderate so said a corporation as established by the Democratit-sponsored bill was entirely unacceptable They said it would permit Legal Services attorneys to engage in political work lobbying and other activities not directly related to the needs of the poor Several Republicans said they objected to broad suits brought by Legal Services lawyers such as one that succeeded in outlawing a residency requirement for welfare SEN GAYLORD Nelson (D Wis) the manager of the poverty bill insisted that sponsors of the measure had met objections of Nixon when he vetoed similar legislation in December Most importantly the new bill gives the President the right to name 10 of the 19 directors so that he could control it Nelson said Press Wirephoto senior allied military source we expect heavier resistance later on in the A UPr television news cameraman Tran Dai Minh accompanying the South Vietnamese paratrooper column moving on the city from the southwest said that two North Vietnamese Army bat-t a 1 i attempted early Thursday to block the advance of that column They were thrown back he said in fighting in which 28 North Vietnamese and five South Vietnamese were killed 1 Minh said the paratrooper column had captured 13 enemy 37mm anti-aircraft guns and also had retaken three 105mm howitzers seized from government forces when the province fell in May Minh said the paratroopers also' had captured an abandoned Soviet-built T54 tank with a full load of ammunition and its engine still running THE SAME cplumn also freed 240 South Vietnamese men women and children who were said to have been used as forced laborers by the North Vietnamese They were found at the village of Tra Tri seven miles southwest of Quang Tri and were taken from there to positions behind the lines for medical treatment and feeding The heavy concentration of air strikes over Quang Tri Province coupled with the trailing edges of Typhoon Ora that moved into China reduced the daily air strikes around Hanoi and other areas of the northern sector of North Vietnam Military sources said there were only two air strikes in that northern sector Wednesday one against a MIG fighter base at Kep Airfield 30 miles north of Hanoi and the other against a supply storage area 35 miles east of the port city of Haiphong All other strikes among the 240 reported against North Vietnam Wednesday were flown in the southern portion they said west bringing heavy rainfall to portions of Central Texas By way of contrast a large high-pressure system centered over the West Coast brought JUNE 30 Hijacking Suspect Had $12 it traveled at 320 miles per hour at about 10000 feet McNally was remanded to federal custody without bail Federal authorities said it was not clear if the air piracy charges filed against him in St Louis included the use of a dangerous weapon during the hijacking a charge which could bring a life sentence upon conviction The hijacker aboard the plane was armed with a 45 caliber submachine-gun Welch said it appeared that McNally who served four years in the Navy before leaving with a general discharge the problems involved in jumping from a He said McNally was in the Wyandotte area up to the time he left to catch the plane at St Louis LEFT just in time for the said Welch had a plan and he carried it through was a very well-planned scheme but he plan on the jet Storm Kills 119 In Philipp ines MANILA' Philippines (UPI) Wind and rain from Typhoon Ora killed 20 persons near Luzon in the Philippines raising the death toll from the weekend storm to 119 reports said Thursday Rescue teams were still looking for 99 persons missing in the storm which raked the Philippines with winds up to 75 miles per hour Saturday and Sunday before moving into the South China Sea Delayed reports from the Red Cross said the latest victims died when their boat sank during the storm 115 miles northeast of Manila and thunderstorms will dominate the northeastern states and the southern portions of the Gulf states Prec If 10 Miami Beach CITY Athens Berlin Birmingham Brussels Casablanca Copenhagen Dublin Geneva Lisbon London Madrid Malta MOSCOW Nice Oslo Pans Rome Sofia Stockholm Sydney Tel Aviv Tunis Warsaw HIGH 82 77 61 66 61 66 56 66 66 63 1 76 72 75 63 67 63 64 57 31 34 75 76 41 22 1 41 73 15 22 07 07 tary sources called the greatest concentration of American firepower since the Korean war 20 years ago Thirteen US Navy cruisers and destroyers shelled the eastern portion of Quang Tri Province from their battle stations off the coast in the Gulf of Tonkin Five aircraft carriers the USS Oriskany arrived Wednesday as the latest addition sent their planes to strafe and bomb enemy positions in the province From bases in Guam and Thailand came B52 Stratofor-tresses the US Air biggest bomber plus wave after wave of smaller fighter-bombers to pound the province the North Vietnamese Hruska (R Neb) was defeated 56-34 Nixon Administration officials supported the Hruska move contending that the fSiami Heralll Th Miami Herald i published every morning by The Miami Herald Publishing Co Ona Herald Plata Miami Florida 331QI Second class postage paid at Miami Florida SUBSCRIPTIONS Mora id Carrier Delivery Daily Sunday Daily ft Only Only Sunday Weekly SO $90 Months 7 0 3 90 11 70 4 Months 15 40 7 10 23 40 Vearly 3120 15 40 44 SO Delivery service payable by mail Send check or money order to PBM Circulation Department 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WASHINGTON (AP) The Senate passed a $96-bil-lion anti-poverty bill Thursday after defeating a Republican attempt to strike out a provision for an independent corporation to run the Legal Services program for the poor The measure approved 74-16 was sent to conference with the House which had passed its version in February THE BILL authorizes funds for the programs of the Office of Economic Opportu- nity for three years Its allocations would be about $1 billion more than President Nixon has asked for the next year It was the second time that the Senate had rejected the proposal deleting the independent corporation for Legal Services The first effort to kill the provision was rejected 46-37 Monday THE NEW attempt sponsored by Sen Roman Tide Tables in Sports Sec MIAMI AND VICINITY: Generally fair through Saturday High around 90 Low in the mid to upper 70s Variable mostly southeast winds 10 to 15 mph FLORIDA: Partly cloudy through Saturday with scattered thundershowers most likely in the north portion High temperature range: 88 to 95 Low temperature range: 70 to 80 SMALL BOATS: Exposed Atlantic coastal waters from Cape Kennedy through the Florida Straits Variable winds 10 to 15 knots Seas two feet Exposed Gulf coastal waters from Cedar Key to Florida Bay mostly west winds 10 to 15 knots Seas two feet Inland waters from Lake Worth through Biscayne Bay Mostly east and southeast winds 10 to occasionally 15 knots with a light chop on waters Fischer Hikes Price For Chess Title Play ings were posted for portions of five states: New York Ohio West Virginia Pennsylvania and New Jersey Thunderstorms also affected the South WEATHER MAP FOR FRI AM REYKJAVIK Iceland (AP) Bobby Fischer has made a last-minute demand for more money to play in Local National World Temperatures GREATER MIAMI I Precp 17 75 Mlimi Alrprt FLORIDA I prtt the world chess championship against Russian Boris Spassky informed sources said Thursday They reported that the 29-year-old American challenger has sent an ultimatum to the Iceland Chess Federation or three days saying he would not- show up unless he got 30 per cent of the gate receipts on top of the unprecedented sums already guaranteed Under the agreement Fischer and Spassky signed with the federation the players will share a purse of $125000 with the winner getting five-eighths of it In addition it was agreed that they would each get 30 per cent of receipts from sales of television and film rights for the match Fischer canceled scheduled flights to Reykjavik Tuesday and Wednesday This had led to speculation that he was waging a war of nerves with titleholder Spassky The 24-gane match is scheduled to start Sunday in a 2500-seat sports palace where seats are sold for $5 a game Northwest MINNEAPOLIS Minn (AP) Northwest Airlines the seventh-largest air carrier announced Thursday that it had canceled all flights scheduled for today in the face of a threatened strike by the pilots Roy Erickson Northwest vice president said to the uncertainty surrounding Northwest Airlines negotiations with the pilots the decision was made to suspend all flights for today He said the company is contacting passengers and helping them make revised travel plans essentially a lockout said Robert Rezanka a spokesman for the pilots Rezanka estimated between 50000 and 60000 Northwest pasengers will be affected by the decision FOREIGN am Moonrise Today 11 :09 pm pm (Q oon8rt 1102 am CITY Aberdeen Amsterdam Ankara July II July 24 July 3 July 10.

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