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V- a mMMKHai MnHHWWMP Convention 72 Kennedy Still Choice Last Hurrah oA 8 A Making Delegate Ends Meet 9A What Saying 9A An Aid to Nixon 12 A Wallace Woos Disenchanted 12 A 12A i Business: Minority 9A Looking for a Protest 9A State Delegates Blue The Newspaper Of The Americas Thursday July 13 1972 Member of The Inter American Press Association 62nd No 227 Mills Quits Mace Giant Aid In Floods Sought Nixon to Ask 817 Billion Will Talk SAN CLEMENTE Calif (AP) President Nixon Wednesday announced that he will ask Congress to approve $17 billion in disaster relief funds and authorize 1 per cent interest loans for homeowners and businessmen in Eastern states recovering from flood damage Nixon described the flood as the natural disaster in the whole of American and said response as a nation also must be The request for $17 billion if approved by Congress would be the single amount ever allocated for a recovery Nixon said and would be used for every aspect of long- and short-term assistance To Daley On Unity Hostile Labor Turns to Jackson 1 '( By WILLIAM MONTALBANO Herald Convention Bureau With the presidential nomination he sought so long and so skillfully only hours away George McGovern preached peace Wednesday to traditional elements of his party But from organized labor and the Democratic old guard came undiminished hostility as the convention moved toward ratification Vv Vfei rj ViLv i- v5 1 4 it THE HEAVY rains left by tropical storm Agnes last month in Florida Virginia Maryland Pennsylvania West Virginia and New York took more than 100 lives and destroyed or damaged 128000 homes and businesses Nixon said adding must not permit the nightmare of destruction which has wrecked so many of their homes and places of business to be followed by the equally grim specter of bankruptcy or The President said he would seek legislation au-thorizing the special disaster loans at 1-per cent interest and no repayment required on the first $5000 of the Nixon also announced that he has invited state and local leaders to a special conference with federal officials in Washington Friday 1 -jf fit Press Wirephoto FLAMENCO MUSIC thumping California Gov Ronald Reagan steps out for a dance with Lucero Tena a Spanish dancer who is known as the best castanet player Mrs Reagan claps along Reagan was in Madrid on a European tour as an emissary for President Nixon 1 VirV 5 'I wf I 4 4 4 i r- i i Rep Wilbur Mills of Arkansas Wednesday became the third presidential candidate to abandon the race announcing that his name would not be placed in nomination Hubert Humphrey and Edmund Muskie had guaranteed nomination by dropping out Tuesday In addition to McGovern remaining nominees included George Wallace Henry Jack-son Shirley Chisholm Terry Sanford and Eugene McCarthy Edward name persisted at the top of the list of vice presidential possibilities Kennedy vacationing on Cape Cod just as persistently said again that he Press Wirephol Flank Raid Beats Off Viets Sen George McGovern Takes Time Out to Enjoy His Family at Beach Rooms grandson Timmy Inked to donkey but Grandson Matt hew ignores whole shebang George McGovern: How He Did It Around Quang ri From an Unknown to the Nominee i i man South Vietnamese drive into Quang Tri Province entered its third week THE MEETING Nixon said is intended to speed up relief efforts explain the new proposals and improve federal-local communications Some state and local officials had complained soon after the flooding that federal assistance was slowed by red tape Nixon then ordered federal agencies to speed up disaster relief sent Vice President Spiro Agnew on an inspection tour of the flood-damaged states and asked Congress for an emergency $100 million in relief funds yTifyg vi SAIGON (AP) Enemy forces struck Wednesday at the vital southwest flank of South Vietnamese troops battling around the provincial capital of Quang Tri forcing a retreat North Vietnamese forces remained entrenched in the city despite heavy bombing and shelling as the 20000- McGOVERN ATE breakfast Wednesday with six Democratic governors as part of his peace-seeking mission The governors told him that either Kennedy or Rep Wilbur Mills would be additions to the His campaign director said McGovern planned to call By WILLIAM MONTALBANO And DON BOIINING Hfrald Convention Bureau The final frantic hours came early When the Democratic Party met Wednesday night to name a presidential nominee he had already been decided: George Stanley McGovern the junior senator from South Dakota who has become to 1972 what the Mets were to 1969 and the Dolphins to 1971 Associated Press correspondent Dennis Necld reported from the northern front that several hundred North Vietnamese troops backed by tanks attacked government paratroopers on the southwestern flank and drove them off their hilltop positions executive assistant Gordon Weil and a lone network television reporter That was the extent of the McGovern entourage that and a few pieces of luggage McGovern had come to Florida to campaign in the March 14 primary as one of 1 1 candidates He was far from the most prominent among them Edmund Muskie seemed unbeatable George Wallace had Florida in the bag Hubert Humphrey rallied old loyalties Henry Jackson boasted conservative appeal New John Lindsay had all the glamor Don liohning has known Sen McGovern since he was a student of Professor in South Dakota and William Montalbano covered the McGovern campaign in New Hampshire Both reporters have followed his campaign closely since the first of the year This is their story of how the man who was ignored by the media and the polls through months of discouraging campaigning put together the victory in Miami Beach Turn to Page 8A Col 5 Fidgety As the nominating session opened it had become merely a formality assured by adroit political maneuvering two nights before It ended whatever flickering hopes Hubert Humphrey and Edmund Muskie might still have harbored They withdrew Tuesday Loses Game No 1 The enemy occupied the outposts and the troopers called in air strikes to blast the positions Armed Pair Seized Near McGovern i play in the game for 35 minutes to protest the presence of two-closed-circuit television cameras high above the contest stage resigned on the 56th move called another political night in Florida Few noted his coming and fewer cared As history is measured it was only yesterday AT LEAST THREE North Vietnamese T54 tanks were reported knocked out by wire-guided missiles Initial reports made no mention of casualties on either side AMONG THE LESSER candidates was lackluster George McGovern He had no more reason to hope than Eugene McCarthy Vance Hartke Shirley Chisholm Wilbur Mills or Sam Yorty late February swing through Florida hardly enhanced the notion of his candidacy For all the political mileage gained from the trip he might as well have stayed in Washington From the suite in a Miami Beach hotel today McGovern is the cynosure of the nation So familiar has he become that it seems now as though was always a household word REYKJAVIK Iceland (UPI) World Chess Champion Boris Spassky of Russia defeated Bobby Fischer in the first game of their $250-000 championship match Wednesday putting the unpredictable American one point behind in what could be a 24-game series Fischer who had stopped Ill oak Beginning He gave up when he saw he could not prevent Spassky moving his only surviving pawn to side of the board thus turning it into a queen the most powerful piece in game Eastern Airlines Flight 137 settled on the tarmac of airport It was 8:59 pm on a blustery Saturday in February 139 days ago Among the passengers in the economy cabin were George McGovern his Nothing could be further from the truth McGovern who trained as a historian before he became a politician knows it better than anyone Perhaps as his name echoed across Miami Beach last night the historian McGovern re- A LOST WEEKEND McGovern The southwestern flank of the operation is considered vital because Allied officers have been concerned since the beginning of the drive that the North Vietnamese might attempt to circle around behind the task force and attack Hue 32 miles to the southeast Family Caught Turn to Page 10A Col 1 I Invader Fischer stood up made a helpless gesture to the audience and walked off The second game was scheduled for Thursday at 1 pm Quiet asa Other battles raged on the northern eastern and southern sides of Quang Tri City Government forces claimed By JAMES SAVAGE And JUNE KRONHOLZ Herald Staff Writer Two denim-clad men who have been followed by FBI agents for several days were arrested Wednesday at Sen George Miami Beach hotel after state agents said they found two loaded pistols in their car The decision to search the two men came after FBI agents followed their auto to headquarters at the Doral Beach Hotel 4833 Collins Ave where the presidential candidate was having a breakfast meeting with six Democratic governors As one of the two men both black entered the lobby of the Doral FBI agents working with the Secret Service decided the time had come to stop them FBI agents with no direct jurisdiction to make an arrest pointed out the two suspects to cooperating agents of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement 1 ANit' IK mP Turn to Page 2A Col 8 i Rijf Play in the interrupted first game resumed on time but Fischer walked out after three moves to protest the two television cameras Match organizers covered the cameras with a cloth but Fischer said they still bothered him BOWIE Md (AP) Es-peranza Corzon suspected that the frequent tampering with her typewriter was the work of vandals so she installed a new alarm system inside her office ah Centenarian Is Mugged ws- A JO i SPASSKY made the first move Wednesday taking one of remaining pawns Fischer then took a I RICHMOND Va (AP) It took more than a century but Sam Hill has finally been mugged -M Turn to Page 2A CoL 3 When that failed the Bowie Police Department assigned two detectives to spend the night inside the store Mrs Corzon called the police Tuesday and complained someone again had ripped off me rnDon of her typewriter Detective Richard Hart found a field mouse and her three babies nestled in the typewriter Hart said the mouse family would be released to the custody of his chiTlren Chuckle ONE WAS STOPPED by FDLE agents in the Doral lobby and his companion was questioned near their auto The suspect inside the hotel had entered an eleva- The 104-year-old Hill told police that he was standing in the yard of his home when he was grabbed from behind He said a second person took his wallet containing $90 before pushing him to the ground Associated Pres Wirtiywls Every married man should forget his mistakes No use in two people remembering the same thin Hubert MuricTliuniplirey Get Away Front Politics senator flaxes in ocean surf after quitting rare Turn to Page 8A Col 1.