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joined by vice piesidential nomi- 1 MIAMI BEACH Fla (API 'Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern vowing to lead a people's campaignurged wildly cheering1 Democrats today to put behind fury and our frustra- and unite to capture the White House from President Nix- OHa appealed for help from every Democrat and every Republican and Independent who wants Amer- ica to be the great and good land it can It was nearly -3 am'when the beaming McGovern introduced by Sen Edward Kennedy and r- 'v Jannhg moes Aepnioes The standard hearers of (lie1872 Democratic presidential ticket Sen George McGovern and Sen Thomas FJ Eagleton stand with their wives Elean- 3 5- I zsi violence Army headquarters said about 700 men remained in control of An-dersonstown early today but -said It' did1 not know how long they would stay A spokesman would not' say whether house-to- -house searches would be made for "guerrilla nests and arms caches The invasion of Andersonstown was ordered by Britain's adminis-: trator for Northern Ireland Wil- 1 11am i 1 a Army headquarters said It marked a reversal' at least temporarily of policy of reducing mill-' tary activity in an effort to wean away the grassroots Catholic support of the IRA Whitelaw told a Conservative party meeting in London on Thurs-day night that he would with his attempts at concilia- tion but he added that if gunmen are ferocious will retaliate with the same ferocity" The retaliation began shortly be-H fore midnight 1 A sandbagged Army fortlfica-1 tion on Lenadoon Avenue had been under heavy IRA attack with guns and bombs for five hours At one stage a rocket was fired at the post but the missile missed and hit a neighboring house About SO soldiers Inside held out until some 1800 men moved up in armored personnel or and Barbara Ann respectively bn the podium facing delegates at the final session of the Democratic- National Convention E- (APWirephoto) BELFAST Northern Ireland (AP) Gun battles raged through fhe night in Roman Catholic die- tricts of Belfast and continued to- day after: the British army abandoned its "'low and took the offensive against guerril- las of the Irish Republican Army Three soldiers and three clvil- Ians were reported killed raising the confirmed death toll to 16 since Wednesday and to 432 in the three years of communal violence in -f I Northern Ireland- 1 The army claimed to have hit more than '80 gunmen but recovered no bodies because the guerril- las carry away their casualties for burial or treatment Shooting erupted in all of major Catholic strongholds after three battalions of troops invaded the district of Andersonstown to quell gunmen who had poured intensive fire at an army command post for four 1 It was the first time the army had entered one of the districts taken over by the IRA In the past' such areas have been off limits to prevent: a confrontation with the guerrillas holding sway there Protestant militants have been demanding for months that the ar-' my go into the no go areas and clean out the IRA The Invasion of Andersonstown will probably In-' tensify the Protestants' demands that the army now go into the bar ricaded areas of Londonderry that are the most famous symbols of Catholic defiance the Bogside and -Greggan districts or "Free Derr as the IRA' calls them US air nee Thomas Eagleton and de-tested piesidential rivals' stepped to the rostrum tumultuous jammed Convention Hall to accept his nomination The victorious nominee had only a- few hours 'to rest up after triumph appearances before a unitv breakfast for the party's House and Senate Campaign committees and a Democratic fund- raising group were scheduled be fore he returned to Washington lat- 'er today----5 McGovern also had to decide on a new chairman for the Democrat- ic National Committee which holds -a' morning organizational meeting While he has pressedVv- Chairman Lawrence O'Brien to stay on1 informed sources said he would ask Jean Westwood1 the Utah national committeewoman to take the Job if O'Brien declines In the final moments of the con- ventlon that his supporters dominated all week the A triumph belonged to the one-time college professor from South Dakota Waves of applause rocked the hall -as Hubert Humphrey Edmund Muskle Henry Jackson Shirley: Chisholm and Terry Sanford lifted high the hands of the 49-year-old nominee and his 42-year-old running mate (Tom Hundreds of jubilant McGovern delegates rose time and lime again peering over the'crowds of reporters cameramen and boosters jammed in the well of Convention Hall to applaud the party's victorious standard bearer Reviewing the way his campaign swept aside the established political leadership McGovern said he would dedicate his White House campaign to the people declared that next January he would restore government to their hands and added r- 'n v- politics will never be the same again" --S -'v- T' With some laborJeaders still de- termlned to sit out the campaign and other delegates grumbling about the ways in which his opera- fives- dominated the -convention McGovern forecast the battle against Richard Nixon would bring the party "together-' In common this fall: is the unwitting unifier and the fundamental issue of this na- tional campaign McGovern said adding that "all of us together are going to help him redeem a pledge he made 10 years ago: that next year -you have Richard Nixon to kick around any more 4 Even delegates who supported the absent Gov George Wallace -joined the ovation when McGovern vowed to wage a national cam- paign and said are not conceding a single state to Rl-i chard Nixon' Earlier in the long evening the third of four nights on which the convention stayed In session well into the predawn hours the con-1 ventlon ratified choice of Eagleton as the No' 2 man on the 1972 Democratic A 4 But it took a one-hour 20- minute roll call that saw votes cast for -candidates ranging from televi- sion commentator Roger Mudd to TV character Archie Bunker to the senator's wife Eleanor tpr ib loipki By ROBERT McHUGH Editor A feThe Daily -Herald (Related Story On Page 23) 3 MIAMI BEACH i Carter 3rd Greenville newspaper white Regulars aa thenationally editor' tiscd the podium of the recoghized state party -Democratic National -Convention Carter said the-Loyalists would' Thursday night to accuse Gov give their seats back to Governor William Waller over national telev- Waller in a trade if he would "give ision of retaliating against Loyal- that 33 million back to the people of Mississippi who need It 1st Democrats Toy withholding $5 war weapon S'-1 Army headquarters announced that the district would be stormed to civilian lives and to security force presence in- areas from which the attacks had been launched '( V-V- of Haiphong triggered six large secondary explosions and two sustained fires Radio Hanoi claimed that 14 US warplanes bombed a section of dikes in North Vietnam's Hal Hung Province on Tuesday and that a large number of Western newsmen saw it The broadcast said fhe newsmen had been taken to the area near Hiep Ca and Nan Hung villages to see damage allegedly done to dikes there by US bombs two: days earlier The 'North Vietnamese radio said' two of the bombs scored direct hits 'on top of the dike and 23 others hit along the sides of the dike' and cracking 'a 200-meter long section" REYKJAVIK Iceland (AP) Chess officials today considered a demand form Bobby Fischer for a replay of the second game in the world chess championship' match which he refused to play Thursday because movie cameras were present The referee ruled that Fischer by failing to appear because movie cameras would film the play 'forfeited the game to Soviet title Boris Spassky The decision -left Fischer two games down In a 24-game match where Fischer needs the equivalent of 12 victories and a draw to take Spassky's title i-1 PARIS (AP) Thousands of Parisians and tourists lined the sunny Champs-Ely-sees for the traditional Bas- tille Day military parade today which'was highlighted by a bulky surface-to-surface missile with i nuclear capability President Georges Pompidou and his new premier Pierre Mess- merv watched from the re- view stand as France's most modern weapons and planes went byr A 4 rvq apparently i because you seated this party Carter referred to a credentials committee fight in which the com- mittee chose the predominantly black Loyalists over the largely In withdrawing nomination he also urged the riatipnal party not to write off the South in this presidential election not close us out of this par-1 1 ty not write pff the South and tell us we be abandoned he said an emotional appeal to the convention delegates and party leaders have come back to the Na-1 tional Democratic party We are here and we are going to stay here Do not turn us back he l'said' Carter said he was concerned Rand bid 3649 below it's original claimed cost a reduction of 22 percent to win the contract again the Army has made some attempts to clean up this Proxmire' said in -a state' ment has not gone far enZ In the past Proxmire continued Sperry Rand made pfits by misrepresenting iU Now! it can continue to make large profits by using free government facilities materials and operating capital under a new contract' What Is needed is competition and free in de- -fense procurement- said Proxmire adding: taxpayer would be overjoyed to make 317 million on a 350000" investment which is 340 times the Investment or a 34000 per cent return Even on an annual basis it is a 17-fold or 1700 per cent return' on said Proxmire the taxpayer is paying for this instead 'Of getting it he is being played strictly for a sucker' 'V--' -i report -i'Csvr I il- -V has not been There has been speculation for more than a year that should Nixon decide to replace Vice Presi- dent- Spiro Agnew as his 1972 running i-mate he might turn to 1 Connally The former Treasury has expressed disinterest in the Job'-but has never flatly he ''would not1 Another globe-circling traveler be at the Western White House Western White Suay to report about the party's futureand its un- -ity He noted that he had worked for the past three and a half yean with Sen Thomas Eagleton of Missouri the vice presidential nominee' on the party's O'Hara Rules Reform Commission and -found Eagleton to be a man of honor and intelligence' Presidential nominee George McGovern 'Carter? said has and vision and has established with the selection of Eagleton a ticket we can all support and elect in He then said he was withdrawing his name as vice presidential nominee and he called for support from thcentire for the McGovern-Eagleton ticket Earlier Fannie Lou Hamer of Ruleville who was not here earlier in the week because of illness too the floor to second the nomination 1 of Sissy Ferenthold for vice presi-dent Mrs Hamer who captured national attention in 1964 when she told- a credentials committee of being beaten by Mississippi police left her sick bed and arrived here Wednesday to take over her place as a delegate 'V Three Mississippians Carter Mrs Hamer and Wesley Wat-- kins of Greenville have had the podium during this natioiul con- vention Watkins spoke earlier in the convention for a minority re- port on reform When it came down to the actual voting on the vice presidential nominee the bulk of the Mississip- pi delegation went along with Cart- cr's position Seventeen voted for Eagleton "five went for Sissy Farenthold one vote was cast for Sen Fred Harris of Oklahoma another was cast for Alaska Sen: Mike Gravel and one holdout' insisted upon voting for 'Carter in 1 car MEMPHIS Three persons were killed and 16 others received injuries early today state troopers said when a Greyhound bus bound from Memphis to Atlanta collided with a car on -78 about one mile from the city Urn- Uits i Trooper Yoakum said the impact tore seats lose in the bus and buckled the center of the vehi- clc -i i j'- The car was mangled and troopers said they had not determined how many people ifad been in the vehicle at the time of the crash In the suburban community of Caple- villc Yoakum said sis best officers' could determine- only one person was in the car which bore Ohio plates said the 16 persons jured were 'treated at hospitals then released others i were i hospitalized- v- Yoakum said troopers were at- million in funds for a health center in all-black Bayou in Bolivar -County 1 'Carter who" was'1 allowed to speak to withdraw his candidacy as vice presidential nominee told the convention- and the nation price of participation' In the Democratic party as we know in Mississippi can sometimes be high Right now in Mississippi thousands of poor Mississippians In an apparent act of retaliation by the governor are being deprived of 35 million for a health center The governor has vetoed- those funds' WASHINGTON (AP) --Sen Wil-Ham Proxmire D-Wis' accused the Defense Department today of letting the taxpayer be for a by allowing' Rand Corp to reap a 34000 per cent return on "a 330000 invest- ment The contract involves the com- pany's production of 155 mm artil- lery shell the brass colored at its Louisiana Army Ammunition Plants Shreveport La The 371-million plant was built with taxpayer money but Sperry Rand Invested- only 330000 said Proxmire chairman of the Joint Economic Committee In the 20-year span from 1951 to 1971 Sperry Rand made 317 profit maintained Proxmire I kf i Acconling to a General Account- ing Office investigation Proxmire said: Sperry Rand produced each casing at a claimed cost of 32936 under a cost-plus contract'" When the contract was put up for competitive bidding in 1971 Sperry i i SAN CLEMENTE Calif (AP I Former Treasury Secretary John Gonnally has arrived In South- ern California for a conference to- day with: President Nixon Gonnally until recently the only Democrat in Nixon's Cabinet Just completed a 35-day 15-nation trip? arouni world for the Presi- dent who has promised the mis-: sion would be followed by an important new assignment for the silver-haired Texan WOtlld hfk'AnnfifiviMd tndiv 'amm Asked If the newv assignment SAIGON (AP) The US Navy announced today the Introduction of a1 new- one-ton video bomb called "Fat into the air war against North Vietnam and termed it highly effective The weapon is an improved version of the television bomb and has been In use for the past month-the Navy said Capt Marland Towsend commanding officer of the carrier Kitty Hawk said the first six Fat Alberts released scored direct hits -against their targets and reduced 'the- risk that American pilots would be hit by ground fire I Townsend said four bridges were downed and two military supply buildings were destroyed by the bombs- "You can't beat 100 per 'he The Fat Albert named by fliers aboard the Kitty Hawk is twice as powerful as the Walleye and has a television camera in the nose to direct the bomb to the target "The primary advantages of the Albert over the earlier Walleyed series are increased sive impact better reliability and greater standoff range or the ability to hit targets from higher altitudes the most popular for combat air crews exposed to' enemy ground the Navy said The Navy said its attack would continue to use the Walleye which was first used against North Viet- nam 1n March 1987 also the laser-guided bombs'' A A' The US Command announced- rmeanwhile that US pilots carried h' 270 tactical air strikes against inside North Vietnam The Navy said its pilots leyeled i three coastal defense sites to the northeast and southeast of the port city of Vinh with laser guided bombs Other Navy planes from the three carriers la the Tonkin Gulf hit hard for the second successive day in the HanoiHaiphong region The pilots reported destroying six buildings in the Chung Hau stor- age area 28 miles northeast of Hanoi five buildings at the Mai Thinh vehicle truck' park's mile farther northeast three 'warehouses :14 miles northeast of Haiphong and a railroad bridge 18 miles northwest of the port cityvAZ Pilots said they sank three barges on a small waterway 19 miles northeast 'Ot Haiphong and iv in attacks coastal trans- shipment points 20 miles northeast MANCHESTER (AP) Vice President Spiro Agnew says if he decides to seek re-election as vice president it will mean he is keeping open his options for an eventual bid for the presidency In a copyright story' in Thursday's Manchester Union Leader Agnew indicated that President Nixon had not yet advised him whether he would ask Agnew to be his running mate 'JACKSON Miss (ap) -The state Tax Commission reported today general fund collections in Mississippi during June totaled $29- 031757 an increase from the same month a year Chairman Amy Rhoden said sales tax were the biggest revenue produ- cer of the month i -'-j: '-I- MOSCOW (AP) Prava-da reported today that North Vietnamese Politburo mem- ber Le Due -Tho arrived: int the Soviet capital Thursday night en route to the Vietnam peace talks in Paris i 3 i i- I terminc who had been killed- to3y Names wiirnotbe icleased until on a 19-day journey to lO the investigation is completed he Nixon.