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The Miami Herald from Miami, Florida • 153

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The Miami Heraldi
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Miami, Florida
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153
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w-tr'e iy mrn BROWARD EDITION i Se inside back page of this melton 10 Cents 62ml No 22S Friday July 14 1972 Complete Newspaper Two Latin Amirlcan Edition! Art Published Daily 2 126 Page? Once the Forgotten Mott5 of Missouri Eagleton Is Political Tivin delegate to the 1940 Republican convention and took his son along WAS A Wilkie man but I was strong for Eagleton recalled Later after Wilike lost the Lagletons father and son became Democrats Eagleton a Catholic is virtually an ideological twin of his new boss G'eorge McGovern son of a Methodist parson Both come out of the Middle West and share almost identical liberal voting records But personality is more outgoing breezy and informal than the reserved low-key McGovern He relaxed at the swimming pool at the Ivanhoe Hotel here this week with his fellow Missouri delegates sporting loud red and yellow trunks and patting a developing pauch Turn to Page 30A Col 2 By ROBERT BOYD Herald Convention Bureau I was a kid if someone asked me what I wanted to be when I gew up a general a detective or what have you I always said I wanted to be a Thomas Francis Eagleton the of Missouri politics talking not long after he entered the US Senate in 1969 at the age of 39 Before that he was the youngest man ever elected prosecutor of his hometown St Louis at the age of 27 the youngest attorney general of Missouri at 31 and the youngest lieutenant governor of his state at 35 In fact Tom Eagleton was only 10 years old when he got his baptism in politics His father prominent St Louis attorney was a HERALD PROFILE or Nomination Herald Staff fhatby er 1 V- i 1 4 1 3 Hun as Hijack Of NAL Jet Ends On Texas Airstrip Of the By WILLIAM MONTALBANO Herald Convention Bureau Sen George McGovern sounding a theme of home accepted the Democratic presidential nomination Thursday night with a vow to defeat President Nixon to end the Vietnam war and to America back to McGovern calling his ascent to the top of his party nomination of the asked every Democrat every Republican and independent who wants America to be the great and good land it can to support his campaign -Together with a promise of FREEPORT Tex (UPI) Two heavily armed black men who 'hijacked1 a jetliner over New Yoik City on Wednesday nights Surrendered Thursday without a fight to the FBI Texas commuter airports fA After negotiation hetveenj guthtjriliex and the hijackers the frf I door of the National Airhnts jetliner popped ojrr as Ihg 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 from Baltimore like the hijackers a black had negotiat- WHERE TG FIND IT People Eagleton Had Youth Good Face 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 running mate on the 1972 ratic ticket ffhi NEWS ANALYSIS 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 something he was expected to sav 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 Turn to Page 3IA Col 2 SILL SANDERS i si By tradition the new Democratic presidential nominee has the right to choose his party chairman and there was speculation that for the first time it might be a woman Among those mentioned were Jean Westwood national committeewoman from Utah and Anne Wexler O'BRIEN said he had discussed his situation with Sen George McGovern sev They said Fischer felt the arbiter had violated the rules of the International 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 sr Press Wirepdoto widely seen a conciliation to Democrats gesture of Old Guard told delegates that as he finished his term as national chairman his was that the party level with the American people He spoke as though it were his farewell address to the party He said Democrats had shown in the past four days that they could resolve the toughest problems a civ i-lized have leveled with ourselves and we have leveled with the American 1 said If campaigni were waged the same manner of exploiting the people's the convention in Miami Beach will be remembered as the time Democratic Party came back to he said ed with the hijackers for" several hpursHe snapped handcuffs oii them as- other-offi- cers converged -on thee -plane A and a l23-o7befj were' along wffji1 $600 ransom paid by twyairl'i n5 1 day i mPhi I a Ip ta They then Houston? 50 imleg- away for on air piracy and othfr charges really talked them out of the said Thomas Jordan special FBI agent in charge at Houston made them realize they were in an untenable position White told them the people who were injured were not injured seriously and the only thing to do was to give themselves up They asked to be allowed to give up only to the FBI and with a guarantee for their Jordan said the steward- esses were in danger throughout the ordeal He said at one point a stewardess was allowed to talk from a doorway but one of the hijackers held a gun at her head He said the stewardesses were exhausted THE JET LANDED at the Lake Jackson Airport south of Houston at 910 am and blew four tires on touching down Two crewmen jumped out the cabirt windows and the hijackers were stranded in the plane with their hostages They demanded that a pilot dressed in a swimsuit fly them away in a small plane and agreed in turn to leave behind $600000 in ransom money they had extorted from the airline FBI agents with high-powered rifles guarded the plane at the airport 1450 miles Turn to Page 2A CoL 2 i A fV A xV eral times and had promised to stay through the 36th quadrennial convention But on the national political scene for 12 years said he had made his to step said he had been urged to reconsider but added believe change my After McGovern was nominated he asked to slay on the job through the November elections a move 29 two games down in his attempt to wrest the championship from Spassky Judge Lothar Schmid of West Germany announced the forfeiture 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 AIDES say he withdrawing US forces totally from Indochina within 90 days of his inauguration McGovern coupled a pledge that America never become a second-rate militarily HE SAID: will keep its defenses alert and fully sufficient to meet any danger We will do that not only for ourselves but for those who deserve and need the shield of our strength our old allies in Europe and elsewhere including the people of Israel who will always have our help to hold their promised Recalling the bitter words of Nixon after he lost his race for the governorship of California in 1962 McGovern declared: year you have Richard Nixon to kick around Leading Democrats rallied around candidacy Thursday as the South Dakota senator chose Thomas Eagleton a young liberal senator from Missouri as his vice presidential candidate McGovern settled on Eagleton whose liberal politics parallel his own after a long day of consultations with aides and party leaders Edward Kennedy first choice as a running mate demurred within minutes of nomination early Thursday But in a gesture of party unity Kennedy flew to Miami Turn to Page 32A Col 1 'Tl Kennedy Gets Word of Ecouragemen Before Leading for Miami Beach senator ended a short rest in Ifyannis Mass to address convention I Lawrence Will Resign Today As Chairman of the National Party By United Press International Lawrence said Thursday night that he had made an decision not to continue as Democratic national chairman after the end of the convention who led the debt-ridden Democratic Party through some of its most turbulent years and its greatest reforms said he would step down when the national committee meets today 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 Forfeits Blames Iff 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Fischer Boris the Capitalist? 24A REYKJAVIK Iceland (UPI) Charging that there was conspiracy against US Grand Master Bobby Fischer locked himself in his hotel room Thursday Mfij rwusra 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 attempts by organizers to get him to the hall before the 6 pm deadline Fischer refused to listen and turned off his telephone Aides said the unpredictable chess genius stayed in bed to protest the presence of 1 close-circuit television cameras in the contest hall HE LATER allowed an oid fnend Icelandic Grand Master Fridrik Olafsson into his hotel suite to me about just about everything else but the Olafsson 8 AM bringing together the House and Senate campaign committees with the presidential and vice presidential nominees West Ballroom Tontainebleau 8:30 Sponsors Club breakfast honoring the prest dential and vice presidential nominees who will speak Deauville 10 AM Mrs news confcience Mediter ranean Room Doral 11 AM First meeting of the new Democratic Nation- al Committee West Ballroom Fontainebleau Quickie A vacation is what you take when you take what been taking any longer 3 to Page 2A CoL 3 'Turn 7.

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