Skip to main content
The largest online newspaper archive
A Publisher Extra® Newspaper

The Miami Herald from Miami, Florida • 149

Publication:
The Miami Heraldi
Location:
Miami, Florida
Issue Date:
Page:
149
Extracted Article Text (OCR)

JLuwjl riJ Qn Of On sQ 1 ui I nwrr Convention 72 War Buddies 30A The New Delegates 31 A What Saying 31 A IIow Voting Went 31A See inside back page of ihis section INDIAN RIVER EDITION 10 Cents 62nd No 228 116 Pages Friday July 14 1972 Complete Newspaper Two Latin American Editions Are Published Daily McGovern Names Missouri Liberal No 0 Lnoi OF on II 2 t' jpv a jt VV Vt I i A 'W- Sen Thomas Eagleton Arrites at McGovern Beach Headquarters freshman enator accepted choice as running mate Selection Is Aimed At Labor Has Favorable Vote Rating By WILLIAM MONTALBANO HrlU Convention Bureau Thomas Eagleton a young liberal senator from Missouri became the Democratic vice presidential candidate Thursday as leading Democrats rallied behind the candidacy of George McGovern McGovern settled on Eagleton whose liberal politics parallel his own after a long day of consultations with aides and party leaders I Edward Kennedy McGov-' first choice as a run- ning mate demurred within minutes of nomi-' nation early Thursday But-in a gesture of party unity Kennedy flew to Miami-Beach from Cape Cod to ad-" dress the closing session of the convention Thursday night Pennsylvania Gov Milton Shapp came for the closing session at request and so did Ohio Gov John Gilligan McGovern plso asked Gov George Wallace to attend the final session He was also in contact with both Hubert Humphrey and Edmund Muskie EAGLETON 42 sat chatting with aides in his room at the Ivanhoe Hotel when the call from McGovern came at 320 pm He instantly agreed to request name emerged from a list narrowed during the day until it included only Eagleton Connecticut Sen Abraham Ribicoff Boston Mayor Kevin White and Minnesota Sen Walter Mondale McGovern advisers expected Eagleton a Roman Catholic from St Louis to give the Democratic ticket youth charisma and ties with organized labor He had come to the convention as a Muskie supporter but defected to McGovern on the California credentials challenge choice of a running mate reflected his belief that a vice president should be close ideologically to the president in the event he must take over ALTHOUGH HE offers no ideological or geographical balance Eagleton might ex- pand appeal to" Catholic blue-collar workers A graduate of Harvard 1 Turn to Page 30A Col 6 WHERE TO FIND IT 'Eagleton Is Like McGovern Old Line Sounded In Paris Porter Thuy List Demands PARIS (AP) The Vietnam peace conference reopened Thursday after a 10-week break with both the Communists and Allies clinging to old positions But the US delegation spokesman said the negotiators agreed to hold a new meeting next Thursday This reinforced speculation that a new round of secret and possibly more fruitful talks may be pending Politburo member Le Due Tho of North Vietnam who held secret meetings in the past with Henry A Kissinger left Peking Thursday en route to Paris NORTH Vietnamese Ambassador Xuan Thuy laid new stress on a linkup of military and political solutions to the war slightly rephrasing the old Communist demands without fundamentally changing them He insisted that the United States end support for the South Vietnamese president Nguyen Van Thieu to permit establishment of a coalition government to be followed by a ceasefire The US delegate William Porter reiterated the Allied position that a ceasefire should be put into effect first and then issues can be discussed by the Vietnamese among am sure I hope we will be discussing this matter he added The talks Thursday featured the familiar polemics that have marked the conference during its 3 years THERE WAS no evidence to support a July 8 statement by Kissinger President foreign affairs adviser that he had some reason to believe Hanoi would take a when the talks resumed If there was a relatively new approach it came in the unusually mild tones of a speech by the frequently tough-talking Porter who invited the attention of the Communist delegates to May 8 proposals for an Indochina ceasefire return of all American prisoners and complete withdrawal from Vietnam within four months of an agreement on the package Xuan Thuy and the Viet Mme Nguyen Thi Binh scorned plan and reiterated that the peace plan constitutes basis for a correct just logical and reasonable Turn to Page 2A CoL 8 V1 A In Thinking But Not Style Miamian Norman Reagan 34 Injured National Copilot ftp fractured pelvis in leaping off skyjacked plane in Texas By ROBERT BOYD Herald Convention Bureau A slim handsome aggressive lawyer from St Louis Sen Thomas Eagleton is an ideological twin of Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern Both men have almost Wild Trail of NAL Hijack Ends With Failure in Texas from Baltimore like the hijackers a black had negotiated with the hijackers for several hours He snapped hand 4 A it Press Wirephoto cuffs on them as other offi-ceis converged on the plane A shotgun and a 22-caliber Turn to Page 2A Col 1 sial clause inserted in the constitution in 1888 A majority of delegates at a New Orleans convention last year voted for its deletion but that vote fell short of the two-thirds required Even if the resolution to eliminate the clause had received a two-thirds majority this year it still would have needed ratification by a majority of the more than 2000 local Elks lodges The resolution was sponsored by the Madison Wis lodge which has sponsored similar resolutions at previous conventions Game 2 quoted Fischer as saying am not interested in it any more In fact I lost interest already six months The American camp announced four hours after the game that Fischer was filing an official protest against the decision to give Spassky the second game spokesman said they would protest on grounds that the clock was started before the playing conditions were in proper order I MT 4 is vC As Staff Photo by BOBlEAST North Vietnam as indispensable to aa honorable peace Young and witty Eagleton is known in Washington for the breezy informality with which he runs his office He will offer a considerable contrast in style to the low-key reserved McGovern Born Sept 4 1929 in St Louis he was educated at Amherst College and Harvard Law School His father Mark is a prominent St Louis lawyer who once was active in Republican politics The son became interested in politics early and was elected circuit attorney for the city of St Louis in 1956 at age 26 He stayed in the circuit office for four years then put in four years as attorney general before serving as lieutenant governor from 1965-69 He beat Republican Rep Thomas Curtis in November 1968 for the Senate seat after having defeated Democrat Edward Long in the primary When he was sworn in early for his Senate seat it appeared for a tew minutes that a necessary certificate was missing Eagleton gasped when it was found 'That was close been out of office for 34 minutes and the first time been off the public payroll in 12 years I quite afford In the Senate Eagleton concentrated on cutting military spending and on election reform and urban affairs He is chairman of the District of Columbia Committee and a member of the Labor Public Work and Aging committees Although he is a Catholic he played a leading role in drafting and passing legislation setting up the federal government's first office of family planning Eagleton served as a seaman apprentice in the Navy from 1948 to 1949 After law school he worked as an attorney for Anheuser-Busch Inc Eagleton and his wife Barbara have two chi-en Terrence 13 and Christin 9 McGovern Sought A Young Liberal 4th Time in Years Rule Retained by Elks identical voting records stamped in the midwestern progressive tradition Both have vigorously opposed the war and advocated sharp cuts in defense spending Eagleton was elected to the Senate in 1968 on a campaign calling for an unconditional halt to the bombing of something he was expected to say but he meant it And for that reason it seemed unlikely to most of his staff that McGovern would reach outside the political spectrum for example to United Auto Workers President Leonard Woodcock to fill the spot NOR WOULD McGovern make the vice presidential selection a precarious political balancing act designed solely to heal breaches be-tween widely disparate wings of the party his staff maintained pull an said one adviser referring to John Kennedy's choice of Lyndon Johnson in 1960 This reasoning ruled out Wilbur Mills of Arkansas Turn to Page 30A Col 1 the match to govern its play Fischer said after his defeat in the opening game Wednesday that he would not play unless all television cameras were removed from the hall Negotiations between the organizers and representatives went on throughout the day Thursday in an effort to resolve the im passe Representatives of Chester Turn to Page 2A CoL FREEPORT Tex (UPD Two heavily armed black men who hiiacked a ietliner over New York City on Wednesday night surrendered Thursday without a fight to the FBI at a small Texas commuter airport After hours of tense negotiation between authorities and the hijackers the rear door of the National Airlines jetliner popped open as the plane sat near the end of the runway The three stewardesses quickly filed down the steps The hijackers followed a few moments later holding their hands above their heads and were arrested by FBI agents The two hijackers were identified in a warrant issued by a US magistrate in Philadelphia where the first hijacked plane landed and was exchanged for a second craft as Michael Stanley Green and Lulseged Tesfa Tesfa later was identified as a native of Ethiopia Green was identified as a resident of Washington DC FBI AGENT Louis White Fischer Boris the Capitalist? 24A REYKJAVIK Iceland (UPI) Charging that there was conspiracy against me" US Grand Master Bobby Fischer locked himself in his hotel room Thursday and refused to come out for the second game of the $250000 world championship chess match forfeiting the game to Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union Despite last-minute at-tempt by organizers to get By SAUL FRIEDMAN Herald Convention Bureau A good face youth a clean and liberal record and Catholicism They all helped make Sen Thomas Francis Eagleton 42 of St Louis George McGov running mate on the 1972 ratio ticket But in addition to these qualities McGovern wanted a man much like himself Throughout campaign the South Dakota senator has been saying that he wanted a vice president who first of all could take the top job at a notice This was a cliche and 29 two games down in his attempt to wrest the championship from Spassky Judge Lothar Schmid of West Germany announced the forefeiture when Fischer playing the white pieces failed to show up within the alloted hour to make the first move of the second game The announcement drew applause from Icelanders in the hall FISCHER'S AIDES say he 1 ver signed the Amsterdam regulations set up prior to ATLANTIC CITY NJ (AP) Delegates to the national convention of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks voted Thursday against opening the organization to nonwhites A two-thirds majority rejected a resolution that would have deleted the clause from the constitution It was the fourth time in five years that the Elks the largest fraternal organization with a membership of more than 15 million voted to retain the controver Forfeits him to the hall before the 6 pm deadline Fischer refused to listen and turned off liis telephone Aides said the unpredictable chess genius stayed in bed to protest the presence of close-circuit television cameras in the contest hall HE LATER allowed an old friend Icelandic Grand Master Fridrik Olafsson into his hotel suite to me about just abA't everything else but the Olafsson Blames Conspiracy They said Fischer felt the arbiter had violated the rules of the Internationa! Chess Federation and would ask the match committee to cancel the results of the game Under the rules they have 12 hours to make a decision ICELANDIC chess sources quoted Fischer as saying he was not only protesting the cameras but also the fact that is a conspiracy against me The forfeiture put Fischer A vacation Is what you take when you take what taking any longer i 1.

Get access to Newspapers.com

  • The largest online newspaper archive
  • 300+ newspapers from the 1700's - 2000's
  • Millions of additional pages added every month

Publisher Extra® Newspapers

  • Exclusive licensed content from premium publishers like the The Miami Herald
  • Archives through last month
  • Continually updated

About The Miami Herald Archive

Pages Available:
9,277,880
Years Available:
1911-2024