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The Newspaper Of The Americas Member of The Inter American Press Association Sunday July 9 1972 62nd No 223 Mapper Confident Publishint Cs 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 56-50 By CLARK HOYT Knl9ht Newspaper! 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 Walks in Front of Husband George in Driving Rain at Airport he has ino doubt tv hen the verdict is in next i reek uill be the nominee most optimistic Humphrey has chances since he lost the primary to McGovern Humphrey had said reduced one-in-four long shot MORE animated and eager Humphrey made these points with Knight editors and correspondents side wins the California showdown night "I think that George now has the maximum votes He cannot win a first makes it even more dificult for in his following a of self-appointed righteous that they are right and that And prepared to even more than they are victory he would try Humphrey convince organized labor his corner to support McGovern won the nomination I suppose within be the convmcer and the doubts that a deadlocked would turn to Sen Edward Kennedy other dark horse who did not 197 The Miami Herald Turn went north with Icelandic friend and chess player Freystemn 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 lm nation 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 ww 'fim A V- 1 S' 5- A- "1 Henry Kiiner going to Paris It was the been about his June 6 California That defeat him to a GROWING as he talked the interview If his Monday (McGovern) that he can get ballot and it him to gam the McGovern small hard core elite that feels others are wrong battle for control for election doubts he could which is now if we be difficult and my power to Humphrey convention or any Will Buy $750 Million Grain Over 3 ears IN AN INTERVIEW with Knight Newspapers Humphrey predicted that anti-Mc-Govern 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-tront 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 phrey he get it on the first bal- lot his chances are reduced The Supreme Court decision me a 50-50 chance no better to get that Humphrey said Campaign Managers All Huddle Try to Halt 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 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-Mc-Govern 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 mdic- 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 gram a mix of wheat corn sorghum rye A TiUe Denied 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 private commercial exporters will negotiate sales with the Soviet Union at 6 per cent interest through the Commodity Credit Corporation for repayment three years from dates of deliv Waitie Spassky and Fischer Ready But Chief Arbiter Leaves Commoner Bride to Page 10AW Col 1 Fred Cramer vice president of the 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 -Herald Staff Pholo bv 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 considers this agreement a very important concrete forward step in the commercial relations between the United States and the Soviet Union which benefits both countries As such 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 agreement w'ere 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 Hi Ich Delays si Truman X-Rays 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 SK ear-old most faithful visitor his wife Bess arrived at Research Medical Center Saturday at 10 am There has been no indication when the foimer chief executive will leave the hospital vvt'ere he has been since last Sunday undergoing treatment Toilets for CAPE TOWN South Africa (AP) The City Council is studying plans to install toilets for dogs to prevent them from dirtying the streets Now Royal Highness5 eries Total amount of credit outstanding is not to exceed $500 million will provide grain farmers with a boost Ziegler said "It 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 strength as Richard 27-year-old cousin of Queen Elizabeth and 10th in line of succession of the British throne wed Miss Van Deurs 13th Century stone church of St Andrew Prince Charles heir to his mother's throne stood alongside the townspeople who crowded into the church in rollmg 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 roval 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 and liked the 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 Russia's 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-1 jured 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 to be used Schmid said he had invited the two players to come to the hall together today to eneck on the facilities and nopefully approve them But this meeting was called off Saturday after Schmid left Spassky also left town and Will Bend Kissinger Believes ear-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 Richard's 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 Viet- namese 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 the light of our experience we believe it would be better to have it Turn to Page 2 A Col 3 BARNWELL England (UPI) Prince Richard of Gloucester wed a blue-eyed Danish secretary Saturday and 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 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 approach 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 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 4.