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VOL. 133 Jacksonville Bailv Journal JACKSONVILLE, ILLINOIS, JIJJ.Y 7, TWENTY-TWO TEN CENTS world' news Convention Controversy iy THI ASSOCIATED PRESS Vice President MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) The Democratic party, already I icing one of its strangest conventions in years, has seen another weird Ingredient a pubUc fight over the nomination for a job once described as not worth a pitcher of warm spit. The vice presidential nomination is traditionally held to be the personal pick of the choice for president, but this year two men are waging a battle between themselves for the position. Sen.

Mike Gravel of Alaska and former Massachusetts Gov. Endicott Peabody not only are challenging each other, but also the practice of letting the head of the ticket choose his running mate. Gravel, a maverick often at odds with his Senate colleagues of both parties, told a news conference in Washington! Thursday he wanted the delegates to have a chance to reject the of the presidential choice. Peabody, who has been waging his unusual campaign for several months, told reporters as he opened his Miami Beach headquarters that for the first time in a long time we will have an election of the vice presidential The job they are after has very little constitutional power and is used by the President as he sees fit, a practice that led the late Vice President John Nance Garner to speak of his position as equalling the value of a pitcher of While campaign has been one mostly of talk, Peabody has been driving for the nomination with verve and at only slightly less cost than I some presidential aspirants. He has a headquarters trailer right next to that of presidential hopeful Sen.

Edmund S. Muskie, 70 hotel rooms are reserved for his staff and he has spent $100,000. The payoff, unofficial and unconfirmed, is a Peabody claim that know over 500 delegates who support my Peabody has talked to kie, Hubert H. Humphrey and front-runner Sen. George S.

McGovern, although, he said, stayed away from asking support becau.se it would be the very antithesis of my WASHINGTON (AP) Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird said Thursday that Sen. George proposed $30-billion slash in military spending would pose dangerous and calamitous for U.S. security and world peace. so-called white flag budget substitutes a philosophy of giye-away-now, beg-later for a philosophy of strength and willingness to Laird said.

After Laird made his comments, McGovern issued a statement saying will be no white flag flying if I become President of the United States. I will never permit the United States to become a second rate power. proposed military budget will make certain that the United States is the strongest nation in the world. But I do not believe in wasting the dollar on needless cost overruns and careless planning. It seems strange to me that the result of Mr.

arms agreement is a request for a more costly military budget next McGovern said. A gloves-off campaigner in his past career as a Republican congressman, Laird said with obvious relish that the Democratic Platform Committee had the McGovern proposals to curb defense lays to $54.8 billion by fiscal 1975. The committee rejected recently both hawkish and dovish defense planks. It said military budget can be reduced substantially with no weakening I of our national But I the committee used no dollar figures. reference to a philosophy was an ob- ivious slap at statements that is better than and that I would go to Hanoi and beg if I I thought that would release the boys (POWs) one day Laird released more than 70 pages of analyses of McGovern proposals sent to Prox- I mire and Rep.

John J. Rhodes, R-Ariz. i Summing up his objections to the McGovern plan, report said: proposals would lead the I United States to a weaker nu- I clear posture that could leave a I future American president with no alternative but a spasmodic first-strike, attack on enemy civilians and I cities. would lead to a weaker conventional posture which I would lower the nuclear thresh- hold, and to an inadequate I modernization and procurement program which would cause se- I vere erosion of U.S. capabilities in both Indochina War SAIGON (AP) South Vietnamese paratroopers advanced slowly on Quang Tri City Thursday and U.S.

fighter- bombers pounded entrenched North Vietnamese troops guarding the access routes to the northern provincial capital. Associated Press correspondent Dennis Neeld, with the lead elements of the airborne task force, reported that Navy dive bombers dropped hundreds of small antipersonnel bombs on a row of tree-shaded homes along Highway 1 on the southeastern edge of the city. The paratroopers were taking fire from bunkers hidden among the houses, and the planes were attempting to clear a path into the city that fell to jthe North Vietnamese May 1. In the afternoon, lead elements of the task force still were slightly more than a mile south of the city center and moving cautiously forward. Other airborne units and marines in the task force were moving on the city from the southeast and east but were still 1.8 to 2.2 miles from the citadel.

U.S. B52 heavy bombers ringed the city with hundreds of tons of explosives. The U.S. Command reported that American warplanes flew 360 strikes against North Vietnam Wednesday in their heaviest raids since the 1968 bombing halt. Burger Blocks Decision WASHINGTON (AP) Chief Justice Warren E.

Burger indefinitely blocked a court decision Thursday that returned to Sen. George McGovern 151 California delegates to the Democratic National Convention. Burger acted as he attempted to contact the other eight vacationing U.S. Supreme Court Justices to learn if there is sufficient support to call for a rare special session to decide the case. Also suspended by the Chief action was the second portion of the U.S.

Appeals Court decision which upheld the Credentials ex- pul.sion of Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley and 58 other Illinois delegates. The Appeals Court earlier issued a stay of its own decision that was scheduled to expii at 2 p.m. (E: T) Thursday. one order, Lssiicd shortly before that hour, extended the existing stay til) further action by the high court.

The Democratic Party asked the high court to convene a rare special term to hear ii.s appeal. The party contends that lower court intervention in delegate selection will place the federal judiciary in the role of convention kingmaker. At the time, Daley forces have asked vacationing justices to sit in a special term. The court may sit with as few a.s of the nine justices present. 7 he appeals court Wednesday overturned the Credentials Committee and ordered 151 California delegates returned to Sen.

George S. McGovern. The committee had stripped them from the South Dakota senator when it decided to rever.se the winner-take-all state primary and parcel out delegates to candidates according to the percentage of the primary vote they received. At the same time, the court upheld the rigths to unseat the Daley delegation, saying they violated party rules on delegate selection. In asking the high court to consider the case, the Democratic Party claimed that the lower court decision pro- a fundamental constitutional crisis which can be settled only by this The seating of the California delegates, the party brief said, very likely the presidential nomination be determined, not by the political process operative at the convention but by the mandate of a lower federal The Democrats contended the decision threatens to cause a fundamental change in the American political system by expanding the role of the diciary into the affairs of political parties further than ever before.

McGovern forces opposed Bit party bid, saying is parUcu- larly important that the process in which the nominees of the two major political parties are selected conform to the dictates of due process, equal protection of the The appeals court ruled that changing the terms of the California election violated the fundamental principles of due process. Jerome Torshcn, attorney for the Daley forces, said their pleadings before the court hinged on what he called the question of the right of a state to hold an this case, the courts have deprived the people of the Torshen maintained. The Court of Appeals restored to McGovern the full 271 California delegates reversing the vote to take more than half the number from him and apportion them to 01 her primary candidates chief- iy Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey.

Another Man Hijacks Plane Reverend Ralph Abernathy, SCLC president, (center) and poet Allen Ginsberg (bearded, left) tour the people's tent city" Miami Beach Flamingo Hark Thursday. Abernothy led the drive which resulted in city fathers agreeing to establishment of the tent city for "non-delegates" attending the notional political conventions this summer. SAN DIEGO, Calif. (AP) A Pacific Southwest Airlines jetliner with 58 persons aboard landed here Thursday, three hours after it was hijacked by a gunman who demanded a ransom of $450,000, the airline said. The hijacker, who also asked for one parachute, consented to release women and children, a PSA spokesman said.

The Boeing 727 was taken over as it approached Oakland Airport. It was the second hijacking of a PSA aircraft in as many days. The air pirate, described as a white male, ordered the plane to fly to San Diego after demanding the ransom, the airline said. On board the PSA flight from Burbank to Oakland and Sacramento were 51 hostage passengers and six crew members. The airline had reported earlier that 99 persons were on board the plane.

It later corrected tthe figure to 5J. The plane was diverted to San Diego on the instructions of the hijacker, the spokesman added. An earlier report from the Federal Aviation Administration in Washington said 59 persons were aboard the plane. It was the second hijacking of a Pacific Southwest jetliner in two days. Two armed hijackers were shot to death by FBI agents Wednesday at San Francisco International Airport.

A passenger was fatally wounded by one of the hijackers before being gunned down himself. Abernathy In Second MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) Rev. Ralph David Abernathy pitched a one-man pup tent in Resurrection City II Thursday and vowed to carry to the Democratic National Convention his demand that the party act to improve the lot of poor people. Abernathy, head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, said he would sleep in the tiny tent, the first of many the SCLC is erecting to handle an estimated 500 followers scheduled to arrive Sunday, the day before the convention opens.

Abernathy sprawled on the grass in front of his tent and told newsmen: are going to live here and demand that the Democratic party put an end to racism and disease that Rumors Surround Pitches First Tent Vietnam Impasse ResuiTectioii City inflict poor Police estimated the number of protesters in Miami Beach at fewer than 600, about 80 of them camped out in Flamingo Park, where Abernathy pitched his tent and named the site after a shanty town built during a massive protest in Washington, D.C., in May 1970. Other activity by nondele- gates before the convention remained peaceful and low-key. There were these developments: up for next week, a group of young people picketed an exclusive country club, chanting, golf course gotta SCLC and two other black groups reiterated their threat to crash the nominating convention if they are not pro- vided 750 delegate seats for poor people. commander of the National Socialist White Peoples party offered the city of Miami Beach lOO to help maintain convention order and requested a campsite for up to 5,000 demonstrators. Millier, the SCTX head met with Yippie Jerry Rubin and leader.s of other protest groups.

agreed to set up a of at the camp area. have decided that no bard drugs will be brought into the park and there will be no Rubin reported. will be working together because we are working for the same causes, such as an end to the Vietnam WASHINGTON (AP) A State Department spokesman cautioned Thuisday against what he called swings of on rumors that the Paris peace talks would bring some break in the long impasse in negotiations with North Vietnam. Spokesman Charles W. Bray made the comment after London reports circulated that the Soviet Union and the Republic of China were trying to persuade North Vietnam to negotiate seriously at the July 13 resumption of the talks in Paris.

Bray also gave the same reply when asked about reports that South Foreign Minister Tran Van Lam expected some kind of a break soon at the peace talks. Henry Kissinger, the Presi- national security adviser, told newsmen on his return from his latest trip to China that some kind of policy review was taking placa in Hanoi, he assumed. This was based on the return home of chief Paris negotiator, Xuan 'Thuy, for consultations and new instructlona. Politburo member Le Due Tho also returned to Hanoi after steps in Moscow and Peking. Some Communist sources here have affirmed that cow was offering to Hanoi to negotiate seriously with the United States.

However, neither the Soviet Union nor Peking were in a position to cut back aid to the North Vietnamese, it is believed here, without losing influence in Hanoi. Militant Protestants Fischer Apologizes For His Behavior In Paper Primed For Civil War Page Ann Landers 21 Editorials Busineos-MarkeL News 17 Horoscope Classified 17, 19-21 Jacoby on Bridge Comics 13 IY)inters Crossword Puzzle Page 2 4 3 8 14 13, The Weather Temperatures High Thursday 75 at 4:30 p.m. Low Wednesday 46 Forecast for Jacksonville and Vicinity: Partly cloudy and a little warmer Friday with chance of thunderstorms by afternoon. High in the low 80s. Chance shower.s and thunderstorms Friday night.

I jow near 60, Partly cloudy Saturday with chance of showers and thunderotorms High in the low to mid 80s. Chance of rain i.s 40 per cent Friday and Friday night. Jacksonville Skies Today Friday, July 7 Sunset today 8:31 pm. Sunrise tomorrow 5:41 a.m. The moon, at perigee today, ri.ses tomorrow at 3:05 a.m.

and rides high. Visible Planets Mar.s 9:24 m. Mercury follows Mars. Jupiter in the south 12:03 a.n». Saturn of the nuMin.

Venus well lielow Saturn and much brighter. BELFAST, Northern Indand (AP) Protestant paramilitary commandos are ready for a civil war in Northern Ireland, militant Protestant leader William Craig asserted Thursday. Craig, head of the right-wing Ulster Vanguard Movement, said four or five armed commando-type organizations arc standing by to carry out He said August and September could be bloody months which might plunge the province into a head-on conflict between the Protestar.t majority and Roman Catholic minority. Craig did not disclose the strength of the commandoes, whom he de.scribed as men military during an interview with the British Pres.s As.sociation, But he declared their units were spread across Northern Ireland and supplemented the men reportiHi to belong to another militant Protestant organization, the Ulster Defense Association, or UDA. Briti.sh authorities do not doubt that commamlo squads have l)een recruittHi, and report increasing Briti.sh army involvement in the UDA.

One of the principal UDA commanders is known to lie a former British paratrooper, and forces believe a number of other veteran.s of the elite li'giment have joined Protestant ranks. Craig foreca.st a civil war in north next year uiile.ss Britain lifts its of the Protestant dominated provincial Parliament. He did not rule out howexer. an earlier confrontation during the traditionally trouble.some summer months. In the Hou.se of Commons in London, the British adiimis- trator for Ireland told lawmakers he would not tolerate illegal activities.

William Whitelaw said that persons who confront the British government also confront the forces of the Wliitelaw stressed he was anxious not to the but his speech contained a clear warning that British forces will act to prevent the creation of new barricaded areas in the province. UDA leaders have said they will create another Prote.stant area this weekend in what was as a deliberate attempt to tlfwart peace initiative. The UDA pronii.se<l that after erecting the barricades it will 14 days of pt'ace and to allow security forces to (leal with the troubles. REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) Bobby Fischer apologized in writing Thursday to Boris Spassky for that threatened their 0 1 championship chess match. Subsequently.

Ta.ss news agency said demands of the Soviet delegation have been sati.sfied.” It was announced that the first game would be played Tuesday. Fischer, the American challenger, and Spassky, the Soviet world champion, met Thursday night to draw for the first move in the $300,000 of 24 games. Fischer drew the black paw'n, giving Spas.sky the first move with white and a slight advantage. The draw was done the same way park-bench chess players would do it. Spa.ssky took two pawns, one white, one black, juggled them behind his back then extended his clost'd hands to Fi.scher.

Without hesitation, Fischer hunched forward and jiointed a finger to right hand. With a smile Spassky openad it. Fischer delayed the opening of the match, which was to have begun last Sunday, in a holdout for more money. More prize money was donated, but Spassky then demanded a written apology for conduct before the champion would play. In his letter to Spassky, Fischer calUxl his attempt to grab a of gate receipts petty dispute over and asked the Hu.s.sian to accept Harry Golorabek, an oPlcl of the International CJhess Fe th' both players had agreed to be gin play on Tuesday.

The brief ceremony Thursd night was the first face-to-fac meeting between the two con in the pre-game prtpa rations. Like everything else It started late. Fi.scher showed iq) 22 fflinutti late. Fischer's holdout for mort money wa.s made when tho stakes were to he an offidil purse of and a television and film receptU. i.