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4 Tax Plan Revised RAW 3IcGovern Leads SAW Telethon Falling Short SAW SAW Delegates May Bolt 9AW Credentials Battle Tonight 9AW Compromise Is Key 9AW What Saying 9AW McGovcrn-Goldwaler Analogy 10AW Galbraiths: Politicking 10 AW Profile of 1972 Delegate 10AW Plank Is Aired 10AW i PANAMA The Newspaper Of The Americas EDITION Monday July 10 1972 Member of The Inter American Press Association 62nd No 224 5 Leaders Foes Intcnsifu Efforts Escorts Down 3 MICs oosted California Delegates Can Vote Jets Destroy Major JV Viet Repair Depot VS Paves Path to Quang Tri 3A By Herald Wire Services SAIGON US Air Force jets destroyed one of North biggest military vehicle repair depots on the edge of Hanoi and shot down three MIG21s trying to intercept them the US Command announced Sunday It reported one American plane lost In ground warfare South Vietnamese paratroopers launched their first attacks to clear Communist troops from Quang Tri capital field officers said and engaged its defenders in intense fighting One of eight Air Force F4 Phantom fighters that engaged four MIGs in a battle of and North fastest supersonic jets over Hanoi was downed but the two crewmen were rescued the command said North Vietnam claimed four Phantoms shot down in the action Saturday Hanoi charged that US jets bombed many residential quarters and industrial installations inside Hanoi destroying 183 houses and killing score of A Simple Majority Will Decide Issue By WILLIAM MONTALBANO Herald Staff Writer A pair of parliamentary rulings gave front-running George McGovern a significant boost toward the Democratic presidential nomination Sunday But powerful anti-McGovern forces intensified a relentless campaign to stop him Democratic National Chairman Lawrence ruled that 120 California delegates committed to McGovern would be eligible to vote a key California credentials test tonight AND REP James the convention parliamentarian recommended that a majority of delegates eligible to vote on any challenge be sufficient to decide the issue The rulings are open to reversal by appeal from the convention floor But they made it more likely that McGovern would regain the entire 271-member California delegation he won in a winner-take-all primary The Credentials Committee had stripped 151 California votes from McGovern and they are the ones most crucially in dispute WITH A majority of 1433 needed to win the California battle under ruling McGovern forces were confident they would carry the day McGovern expressed quiet confidence Sunday that he would emerge as the nominee McGovern also said he would accept a plan to seat Chicago Mayor Richard disputed Illinois delegation if his California delegates were returned IF McGOVERN wins the credentials battles in what promises to be a long and tumultuous opening session he is regarded a shoo-in for the nomination Wednesday But the anti-McGovern forces conceded him nothing Sunday Spearheaded by the lieutenants of AFL-CIO President George Meany and with Turn to Page 8AW CoL 1 Contenders Put Rivalries Apart for a Meet the Press McGovern Would Accept Daley His Californians Are Seated Handshake 271 delegates won in the California primary As he backed off from the threat McGovern said: problem has been that people say I have no emotion Well finally laid that to rest proved He defended remarks made a couple of weeks ago to the South Carolina delegation when he said he would to Hanoi and beg if I thought it would release the American pnsoners one day earlier be perfectly willing to President Nixon he insisted has been for more than three years vain hung up on face-saving and I'm interested in saving lives Turn to Page 8AW Col 1 liberately withheld his revised proposal until after the convention because his opposition could seize upon it to take delegates from him although some details have leaked out got now is a frantic scramble for every possible he said not a very good forum for a thoughtful evaluation of a complicated tax and welfare proposal sure that a concert of saints could not come up with a proposal now that would be accepted by the people who are trying to stop me They will seize on anything I propose now Gov George Wallace during a hospital talk before they headed for Miami Beach volunteered to McGovern that he was not interested in the vice presidential nomination on any ticket and would not support a candidate in exchange for a second spot Although he did suggest to United Auto Workers President Leonard Woodcock that Woodcock could be among his choices as a running mate McGovern said he was very on Florida Gov Reubin Askew am serious about the Askew he said He had no regrets for threatening to bolt the Democratic Party after the Credentials Committee stripped him of more than half the Otra Chair Is FImra In REYKJAVIK Iceland (UPI) Challenger Bobby favorite chair arrived by air freight from New York Sunday to help the American in his match bgainst Russian Boris Spassky for the world chess championship Fred Cramer a vice president of the US Chess Federation who is acting as Fiscl spokesman said he was certain that the first of the 24 scheduled games would be played Tuesday Spassky is still THE FACT that the official arbiter West German Grand Master Lothar Schmid has returned to his home in Bamberg and will not be back until Thursday not stop the Cramer said Schmid flew home Saturday after his son had been injured in a traffic accident deputy Gudmun-dur Amlaugsson of Iceland will take charge of the first game in the $250000 match for the world title The players still have to give their official approval to the playing conditions But Spassky said Saturday before going salmon fishing that he would not prgue about the conditions or the picking of a board and a chess set "I will leave that to Fischer It makes no difference to he said FISCHER who has gone to the hall where the match is to be played complained about a number of things including the chairs the light and the board Since he could find no chair to fit him the 29- year-old American is much Turn to Page 2A Col 1 WHERE TD FIND IT Amusement Bishop Classified Comics iroMword Deaths Editorials Financial Goren Helaisa 90 Horoscope 35C 34C Kofoed 35C I6C Latin News 36S 34C Living Today 1C 34C Movies CB People BA Porter 8B Sports SB Thosteson feather SO 4A 120 10 IOC IN ANOTHER broadcast later by Radio Hanoi North Vietnam claimed two more US jets shot down in raids Sunday again in the Hanoi area The broadcast charged that the US planes continued attacks on populous areas The US Command said it had no additional plane losses to report The command has a long-standing policy of not announcing aircraft losses while search-and-rescue operations are being carried out not targeting anything other than military a US spokesman in Saigon commented AN AMERICAN military source said he would assume that there were civilians working in the vehicle repair depot but he stressed that it is a military facility He said the objective of the bombing was to make it more difficult for Hanoi to keep its fleet of trucks operating thus reducing the flow of materiel to support North offensive in South Vietnam Four F4 Phantoms carried out the bombing Pilots reported that they beamed eight laser-guided bombs on the 24500 square-foot repair building four miles southwest of the center of Hanoi Other F4 Phantoms escorted the attack planes They were armed with air-to-air missiles to keep away from the strike aircraft and intercepted four of the Soviet-built fighters about 30 Turn to Page 2A CoL 7 I Like Love But With a LOS ANGELES (UPI) A 29-year-old man was hospitalized with multiple injuries Sunday after he was struck by a 51-p watermelon dropped from a window by his girl friend police said Henry was leaving his home following an argument over a welfare check with Ofena Jones 25 when he heard her call from an upstairs window As he looked up the melon came hurtling down Henry suffered a broken right shoulder two broken ribs and other injuries Detectives were seeking Miss Jones Presidential Convention Chance for Rain 50-50 A 50-50 chance of showers was forecast for the opening day of the Democratic National Convention Prospects were for scattered early morning showers along the shore and for afternoon shower activity mostly inland a typical July weather pattern for Miami Temperatures should go up to the mid-80s along the shore and 90-92 inland with overnight lows in the mid-70s Winds are expected to be from the east and southeast and skies should continue partly cloudy moist east and southeast flow of air should hold for the next few National Weather Service forecaster Bernie Palmer said Taps Dear Watermelon? 5HE MUST i I BE GETTING SOFT FEANKD I I EXPECTED 1 MOPE OF A FIGHT By SAUL FRIEDMAN Knight Newspapers Staff Writer George McGovern said Sunday that he would accept a plan to seat Chicago Mayor Richard Daley and his delegation at the convention if his California delegates were also returned McGovern said he would prefer a compromise that would seat both the Daley delegation and the challengers doubling the size of the Illinois delegation and reducing each vote to one-half But if the convention voted to reseat the original California and Illinois delegations McGovern said would accept The South Dakota senator made his remarks during an exclusive interview with Knight Newspapers in his penthouse suite atop the Doral Beach Hotel COATLESS and relaxed McGovern sipped coffee rested his foot on a table near the sofa and displayed apparent confidence that he would leave Miami Beach the presidential nominee of his party With quiet candor traced with humor McGovern made these other points: He made a mistake on his welfare program because he and his staff had not done their homework or thought it out carefully But he has de Chuckle not so easy as you might think to get a parking ticket First you have to get a parking space Charts Phones Little Black Books Hidden Helpers Smarten Anchormen By GENE MILLER Herald Staff Writer How come those guys on television are so smart? At Walter right foot in the anchor booth is a pit 3 y2 feet deep and inside the pit is a man who types fast on an electric typewriter on cards with great big letters for a TelePrompter They share a copy of Rules of Order revised edition ON THE FLOOR AT left is a delegation seating chart so that know he is hanging 24 feet above Massachusetts Colorado and Alabama He has to be careful not to on his Sony tilted up ankle high or knock over his binoculars or water jug On a narrow desk where three more Sonys are recessed there is an arrow pointed at belly button so he swivel off center Everybody at CBS Miami Beach works for Dr Cronkite (possessor of four honorary doctorates) in one fashion or another for superstar electronic godfather (at age 56) and the smarter he looks the better for CBS That puts 525 brains behind him not counting the computer ones Trying to measure a in the viewing public a recent survey scored Cronkite at 73 per cent which is higher than Richard Nixon or for that matter probably Billy Graham NOT OVERLY IMPRESSED is the competition which also hangs from the ceiling of the convention hall 36 steps up without an elevator From an eight-by-25-toot unsmudged plate glass window which weighs 1320 pounds anchormen view the same gathered multitude below and keep out of sight their telephones which help make THEM smart One is marked DB for David Brinkley and the other JC for John Chancellor They ring Red lights go on And the caller is alwa the same: command Turn to Page 2A CoL 1.