The Miami Herald from Miami, Florida • 147

AIR EXPRESS EDITION The Newspaper Of The Americas Member of The Inter American Press Association Sunday July 171 Th Miami Herald 9 1972 Publishing Co 62nd No 223 Dapper Confident mcuover Staff Photo by RALPH PABST Humphrey Explains Effect of Supreme Court Ruling it saved his presidential ambitions boosted chances Humphrey Noiv Rates His Chances at 50-50 -1 Walks in Front of Husband George in Driving Rain at Airport he has no doubt when the verdict is in next week I it ill be the nominee It was the most optimistic Humphrey has been about his chances since he lost the June 6 California primary to McGovern That defeat Humphrey had said reduced him to a one-in-four long shot GROWING MORE animated and eager as he talked Humphrey made these points in the interview yvith Knight editors and correspondents i If his side wins the California showdown Monday night "I think that George (McGovern) now has the maximum votes that he can get He cannot win a first ballot and it makes it even more dificult for him to gain the McGovern in his following a small hard core of self-appointed righteous elite that feels that they are right and that others are wrong And prepared to battle for control even more than they are for election he would try Humphrey doubts he could convince organized labor which is now in his comer to support McGovern if we won the nomination be difficult and I suppose within my power to be the convincer and the Humphrey doubts that a deadlocked convention would turn to Sen Edward Kennedy or any other dark horse who did not Turn to Page 10AW Col 1 By CLARK HOYT Knight Newspapers Writer A relaxed Hubert Humphrey appearing at peace with himself said Saturday the US Supreme Court saved his presidential ambitions from almost certain death and boosted his chances of winning the Democratic nomination to Humphrey also challenged front-runner George McGovern and every other candidate to pledge support to the eventual victor before the national convention opens Monday night IN AN INTERVIEW with Knight Newspapers Humphrey predicted that anti-McGovern forces will win their fight to deny the South Dakota senator 151 disputed California delegates With his wife Muriel at his side in their 16th-floor ocean-front suite in the Carillon Hotel Humphrey said the Supreme decision to stay out of the California fight put new life in his campaign the Supreme Court decision had gone the other way McGovern would probably have had the vote to get it (the nomination) on the first said the smiling Humphrey he get it on the first ballot his chances are The Supreme Court decision me a 50-50 Chance no better to get that Humphrey said Will Buy $750 Million Grain Over 3 ears en Campaign Managers All Huddle Try to Hall Front-Runner By WILLIAM MONTALBANO Herald Staff Writer Deprived of key California delegates and challenged by a vigorous coalition of opponents South George McGovern came to Miami Beach Saturday to assume personal command of his campaign His task was to save in the next four days a presidential nomination that 18 months of successful campaigning has not yet guaranteed McGovern dapper and confident arrived in a driving rain to proclaim: have no doubt when the verdict is in next week I will be the nominee of the Democratic On Miami Beach anti-McGovern forces mounted a last-ditch campaign to derail his nomination after a Supreme Court decision Friday that left him about 200 delegates short of the nomination Campaign managers for all candidates except McGovern held a strategy session Saturday morning All the others have cooperated to halt McGovern Charles Snider campaign manager for George Wallace told a press conference that he met Saturday morning with leaders of the Hubert Humphrey Edmund Muskie Henry Jackson and Wilbur Mills camps SNIDER DECLINED to call the meeting a session eupheumis-tically terming it an convention instead remarks made clear Wallace was firmly in the anti-McGovern camp on the California credentials fight In exchange Wallace expected support from other candidates for his anti-busing platform plank Pressure mounted on Muskie from all sides opponents asked him to hold firmly to a key bloc of delegates that could swing the nomination Saturday morning Muskie aides met with McGovern lieutenants to hear the South case Gov Patrick Lucey of Wisconsin and John Gilligan of Ohio were lobbying their fellow governors for support of a deal that would involve consent to the seating of Chicago Mayor Richard Daley and his 59-member officially uncommitted delegation from Cook County LUCEY SAID he had indic- Turn to Page 9AW Col I situation with President Nixon here He said his chief deputy Maj Gen Alexander Haig had found during a fact-finding trip to South Vietnam last week that the Communist offensive there had passed its peak and that the North Vietnamese do not now appear to have the capability to launch another such massive attack Kissinger said the period since President Moscow summit trip had been one of intense diplomatic activity during which the United States had conveyed to Hanoi through direct and indirect contact that the time for serious negotiations has long been overdue Eleanor McGovern Soviets In US SAN CLEMENTE Calif (UPI) The Soviet Union and the United States Saturday signed an agreement under which the Russians agreed to buy $750 million worth of US -grown grain over three years the largest agricultural transaction ever made between two nations During the first year beginning Aug 1 the Soviet Union will buy at least $200 million in US grain a mix of wheat corn sorghum rye A Title Denied Spassky and Fischer Ready But Chief Arbiter Leaves Commoner Bride Now Royal Staff Photo by RALPH PABST feels that the agreement is a tribute to the immense productivity of farmers which makes possible export sales of this magnitude in terms of foreign policy the President con- 1 siders this agreement a very important concrete forward -step in the commercial rela- tions between the United States and the Soviet Union which benefits both countries As such1 it builds on the accomplishments of the summit meeting in Moscow last Henry Kissinger chief national security adviser told newsmen that negotiations leading to the agree- ment were started by Maurice Stans then secretary of commerce during a visit last November and December to the Soviet Union President Nixon touched on the subject at the summit Russia sent Kuzmin first deputy foreign trade minister to Washington two weeks ago and he signed the agreement Saturday morning with Peter Peterson secretary of commerce and Earl Butz secretary of agriculture Hitch Delays Truman X-Rays or KANSAS CITY (AP) A lower gastro intestinal X-ray series for former President Harry Truman has been delayed because of an irritated colon a hospital spokesman said Saturday The SS-y ear-old most faithful visitor his wife Bess ai rived at Research Medical Center Satur-day at 10 a There has been no indication when the former chief executive will leave the hospital where he has been since last Sunday undergoing treatment Toilets for Dops CAPE TOWN South Africa (AP) The City Council is studying plans to install toilets for dogs to prevent them from dirtying the streets Fred Cramer vice president of the US Chess Federation said the arrangements although superior to anything we have seen could cause some problems they are not important enough to wreck the he said Cramer said Fischer was relaxed and feeling He said he and Fischer came out of hiding Friday night and dined in public in a Reykjavik restaurant enough nobody recognized Cramer said had a great time He loves the fish here in Iceland and he had fresh boiled salmon and orange barley and oats at the option of the Russians PRESIDENTIAL Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler said President Nixon was pleased with the agreement which he said would give financial help to American grain farmers longshoremen and shippers US private commercial exporters will negotiate sales with the Soviet Union at 6 Vi per cent interest through the Commodity Credit Corporation for repayment in three years from dates of deliv Wall ie year-old blonde daughter of a lawyer became Her Royal Highness Princess Richard of Gloucester THE TITLE royal was never granted Mrs Wallis Warfield Simpson the American divorcee for whom uncle as King Edward VIII gave up his throne in 1936 lem the President thought the best approach would be to concentrate the negotiations on ending military hostilities and leave a political solution on the future of Vietnam to the North and South Vietnamese are prepared to discuss with them means of giving the people of Vietnam an opportunity to determine their own Kissinger said our experience has been that the political issue is an extremely complex one and in the light of our experience we believe it would be better to have it Turn to £age 2A Col 3 eries Total amount of credit outstanding is not to exceed $500 million will provide gram farmers with a boost in Ziegler said will also provide jobs for Americans involved in shipping the grain including longshoremen seamen exporters railroad and barge line workers It will reduce the cost to taxpayers of storeage handling and other charges associated with maintaining commodity stocks PRESIDENT also But Saturday an approving royal family was represented in strength as Richard 27-year-old cousin of Queen Elizabeth and 10th in line of succession of the British throne wed Miss Van Deuis in 13th Century stone church of St Andrew Prince Charles heir to his throne stood along- side the townspeople who crowded into the church in rolling hill county 100 miles west of London Queen Mother Elizabeth carrying a see-through plastic umbrella and her daughter Princess Margaret also were there RICHARD ONE of the royal least traditional members insisted that his wedding to Miss Van Deurs whom he met six years ago while studying architecture at Cambridge University be as simple as possible The setting supplied all the atmosphere the occasion needed Despite intermittent rain all 400 townspeople turned out fiom their rose-covered thatched-roof stone cottages to greet bride and groom who have worshipped frequently at St Andrews and become well-known Aid liked in the village REYKJAVIK Iceland (UPI) The Boris Spassky-Bobby Fischer world chess championship match already delayed for nine days ran into new problems Saturday when the chief arbiter left Iceland US chess sources said Fischer the 29-y ear -old American challenger is peak form and raring to into the' first game Tuesday against the world champion Spassky But the sources said there might have to be another postponement until Thursday since chief arbiter Lothar Schmid will not be back in town until then SCHMID a West German grandmaster and the owner of a book publishing firm in Bamberg flew home Saturday morning and said he would return Thursday He said he was leaving because one of his sons had been in-lured in a traffic accident assistant arbiter Gudmundur Arnlaugsson of Iceland will be in charge of final preparations which include the touchy job of picking the chess sets and board be used Schmid said he had invited the two players to come to die hall together today to stock on the facilities and Hopefully approve them But this meeting was called off jaturday after Schmid left Spassky also left town and went north with Icelandic friend and chess player Freysteinn Thorbergsson on a salmon fishing trip Russian officials said Spassky would be back Monday at the latest Thorbergsson also invited Fischer along but the American turned down the invitation to observe his Church of sabbath from Friday night until Saturday night BEFORE LEAVING Spassky said he was not going to argue about the practical arrangements or the picking of sets and boards will leave that to Bobby it makes no difference to the 35-year-old champion told newsmen Hanoi If a Jf 1 I A Henry Kissinger going to Paris? Will Bend Kissinger Believes BARNWELL England (UPI) Prince Richard of Gloucester wed a blue-eyed Danish secretary Saturday and in doing so achieved a goal which for his late uncle the Duke of Windsor remained a unfulfilled wish With a barely audible Brigitte Van Deurs 25- He said the United States was approaching the talks which were broken off May 4 after North Vietnam launched a massive offensive in the South with the idea of holding systematic discussions to find a just solution to the war He added: have some reason to believe that perhaps they will approach these negotiations in something like the same spirit at least we have some reason to believe they have a new HE SAID that while the US side was prepared to discuss a comprehensive settlement of the Vietnam prob SAN CLEMENTE Calif (UPI) President chief diplomatic strategist said Saturday it appeared Hanoi would take a new and more reasonable approach to negotiating an end to the Vietnam war when peace talks resume next Thursday Dr Henry A Kissinger told newsmen he expected Le Due Tho and Xuan Thuy two top negotiators would be in Paris for the talks and left open the possibility that he also would go to the French capital for secret negotiations KISSINGER met with newsmen following a week-long review of the Vietnam.