Florence Morning News (Newspaper) - August 22, 1972, Florence, South Carolina GOOD MORN It's I OUR 46TH 235 The Only Daily Paper Published in Eastern South Carolina S. C. DAILY SUNDAY DEMONSTRATE PEACEFULLY Protesters Mass Outside Hall not our We know who our enemy is. Nixon is a war Night Launching Set for Apollo 17 I 8 X; A nighttime launch is ed Dec. 6 for Apollo 17. Page 5A. INDEX Comics Deaths Gov. West plans to return to his law practice in Camden when Doctor iji his term expires in 1975. Page I Was Soviet master dolf Abel really an man? Page 3A. Editorials Markets spy Sports Women 78 2AI WEATHER Partly cloudy and little in with chance of showers South Vietnamese Launch New Drive MIAMI Fla. A vet leader quickly calmed Some demonstrators the Jeering by massed peacefully outside Con- people in uniform up there are vention Hall as Republican delegates met inside Monday hours after an antiwar march upon a nearby National Guard bivouac area ended in a rooftop scuffle and As dusk demonstrators clustered under a soft rain in two groups of about along Washington Avenue's staging area in front of the 50-acre con- vention One was a group of Cuban refugees seeking to call tion to the situation in their Former Cuban President Carlos voice boomed over a want to tell the world that we Cubans are still rebelling and will not stop until our homeland is There were brief scuffles be- tween some of the Cubans and members of the second a loose coalition of student tonight and Highs in mid women's iji jn 60s. Page 3A. and protesters memorializing George slain a year before San Prison in Some 50 Cubans took off after a half-dozen Students for a Democratic Society chasing them down SDS youths were knocked down as punches were but rade marshals soon restored The flag emblazoned with white stars contrasted with Ihe Viet Cong flag under which some youthful demonstrators Movie Jane Fonda and other antiwar ists spoke from a platform truck rented by protest some of whom jostled outside a GOP gala the night entered the hall unmolested by protest The Cuban demonstrators dis- banded after about 45 Police said eight young men were arrested earlier at the max of a Vietnam Veterans Against Ihe War march from the Flamingo Park campsite to Miami Beach Senior where some guardsmen are on standby Seven were arrested for non- 1'orcible entry after they bered atop a roof at the and an Thomas 27. of New York was charged wilh indecent exposure after he disrobed and wheeled for his brown ton The march passed Convention Hall during the afternoon GOP session with Ho is going to and kills At the high the shouted to men on we're just like join join Guardsmen peered out of but tains were pulled when staged a guerrilla POLITICS IS THEIR COMMON BOND Drawn together by a common interest in the political processes are the e typical delegates to the Republican National photographed as the opening session was held in Miami Beach McGOVERN TERMED RADICAL AND EXTREMIST Keynote Orators Hail MIAMI Fla. Republicans tuned up Monday night in preparation for the ual renomination of President extolling their man in the White House and describing Democratic challenger George McGovern as a radical and an Not but three orators sounded the keynote to the Re- publican National a political exercise as placid as it was Sen. Edward W. Brooke of Massachusetts opened with praise for the President for his and decisive in foreign for ery of at He acknowledged differences SAIGON About South Vietnamese rangers and infantrymen attacked westward into the strategic Que Son ley south of Da Nang on They launched from Landing Zone the base used by U.S. Marines when they set out to clear the valley six years The Vietnamese ad- field reports because of artillery fire and ground resistance from North Vietnamese The enemy swept down the valley late last week to menace the populous coastal plain and South Vietnam's Da 35 miles north of the U.S. Air Force Phantom jet pilots reported they knocked out three long-range 130mm ar- guns and two highlighting a difference be- tween the current fighting and the U.S. campaign that drove the enemy back into Bomber TOKYO Hanoi's Vietnam News Agency claimed North Vietnamese gunners shot down a bomber Monday in the Linh area just north of the demilitarized North Vietnam has made such claims but the U.S. Command in Saigon never has confirmed the loss of of these big to enemy The broadcast claimed a U.S. A7 plane was shot down over North Vietnam on the rugged mountains toward Never have such heavy ons been reported so close to Da and never in its ly pushes has the enemy been able to seize so much of the A 17-mile range and reputed deadly accuracy with a 74- pound make 13flmm gun one of weapons in the enemy arsenal even South Vietnamese army has a much larger the can 175mm Allied air and ground forces claim to have knocked out scores of 130mm guns during the enemy but tary sources say there has been no evidence the enemy lacks cannon or At latest the South Vietnamese force had advanced into the valley's mouth about halfway between Landing Zone near coastal Highway 1, and the fallen of Fire Base Ross and Que Son district Hundreds of many wounded in the fled toward the field reports with Nixon on U.S. policy in against calling him but said a radical and saying his the President is entitled to tion would mean unparalleled credit for progress toward an end to American Then Anne Mayor Richard G. Lugar of chairman of the Republican Indianapolis sounded the attack National urged Democrats by McGovern and his to join the Republicans this lime and support Off-stage controversy and compromise efforts continued on the issue of how the states should share in voles at the next national The convention rules rejected .an effort by conservative forces to push through their apportionment plan without amendment after liberal cans said that could divide the party and spell trouble Agi 4eelined; to rules telling that anything he said might interpreted as involving his plans for 1976. said I'm keeping my op- tions and that's as far as I'm he But Agnew also said lhat if he does run for president think I could appeal to a broad cross-section of the Republican Described by Sen. Robert J. the parly as on-time the Republican sessions were a model of decorum and careful OPENING CEREMONIES Mrs. Richard M. Nixon and members of her family watch opening ceremonies of the Republican National Convention In Miami Beach and Edward Cox are to left of her and David Eisenhower to Julie is hidden by Tennessee DELEGATE ALLOCATION COMPROMISE REJECTED Floor Fight Over Party Rules Seems Likely MIAMI Fla. Despite continuing negotiations the threat of a Republican National Con- vention floor fight over parly rules still loomed with future control of the party at A showdown vote in the con- Rules which would give both sides in the split over delegate allocation a clue to their chances on the was expected late chances for an ly break in the deadlock were killed when the committee back an effort to rush through the more conservative HEAVIEST SCIENTIFIC SATELLITE LAUNCHED on the Soars Into Orbit CAPE Fla. principal He said the telescopes will be The Copernicus a will be able to study the stars activated after a week of giant on the soared and stellar clouds in a way that ing in space and it is hoped the into orbit Monday to study the until recently has been satellite will operate for at evolution of stars and to seek a least five powerful new energy source in The launched The large X into a 460-mile-high will oped at will study Weighing pounds and study of stars and ultraviolet light in hot priced at attempt to learn how they are stars with ages up to a is the heaviest and most formed by the interaction of in- lion short by stellar dust and Dr. James E. Kupperian NASA project said the should greatly en- hance man's knowledge of the perhaps providing expensive scientific satellite ever launched by the United Among its six telescopes is the largest ever 32 inches in is a terribly exciting in io i Lyman Spilser Jr. of one of the lions and what it might do in the They die young be- cause their inner nuclear naces burn violently at up to 50 million de- grees and their The stars ens are 10 billion or more years with the sun rated aged at about 4.5 billion Ultraviolet light issuing from stars can reveal much about how they were The hot stars emit more of light because of their This ultraviolet light cannot be observed by earth telescopes because it is absorbed in the at- named for a 15th century Polish is orbiting at 460 miles above the Five smaller de- at Britain's University will probe X SUCh sources as quasars and radio plan without debate on it rejected also a compromise offer by the liberal group put forward by Rep. liam Stigert of D. Jack Gibson of South a leader of the conservative said both sides were unyielding in the fight over delegate strength at the 1976 But he pre- a compromise after the Rules Committee vote and be- fore any televised bloodletting at the not going to fight it out down on the con- vention he Spokesmen for the other side said no compromise had been offered formally by and slated they would not settle for anything short of a formula that would give er states the number of gates fairly reflecting their Both proponents and of the plan say it would favor nomination of Vice The spokesmen said they would not accept the only compromise plan which would award bonus delegates to slates won Related Page 5A his this president has actually done more to establish a lasting world peace than any president or any national leader in our Brooke said in his prepared keynote He Nixon missions to China and the Soviet and the strategic arms tion by Republicans in senatorial equally the GOP successes in confront an and gubernatorial both national statewide he The hangup is the com- without regard to the of that can promise It would re- size of Ihe has been de- mean a generation of human ward small states that go for clared unconstitutional by a progress as Nixon this fall with bigger bo- federal The ruling has On Brooke than larger slates that go been appealed by the on Democratic in the presidential can National Committee and of race but which elect other Re- publicans to At the same the con- servative group was ening to withdraw any fication of the allocation rules and go back to the gally embattled That which rewarded the threat to reactivate it is de- f hould pendent on the ruling being overturned lng nome and casualties with a policy that is The with or without a getting the United States out of challenging minority go the to the convention Tuesday After Brooke stressed praise afternoon prior to President of Lugar came on hard Nixon's renomination to a with a denunciation of ond lerm at Tuesday Schedule MIAMI Schedule for the Tuesday sessions of the Republican National 1 p.m. to order by Gov. Ronald Reagan of the temporary speech by Thomas B. of cochairman of the Republican National reports from Rules and Permanent Organization speech by Rep. Gerald R. Ford of permanent report by Gov. William G. Milliken of chairman of the Republican report by Platform report by Rep. Bob Wilson of chairman of the Republican Congressional adjournment 3 p.m. p.m. documentary film oil ui new nomination for balloting on tial adjournment p.m. must be defeated resoundingly to prevent disaster at home and said the 40-year-old He has been using the convention city as a forum to advertise his name and cal in a buildup for a possible presidential bid self four years Lugar said McGovem would adopt cripple American turn to crawling to the abandon U.S. prisoners of war the whim of the promote con- ilas not been captured by a Page 2A)
