Winona Daily News (Newspaper) - June 9, 1976, Winona, Minnesota Shouting still to come in Ford Reagan nomination fight AP analysis J By WALTER R HEARS For Jimmy Carter it may soon be all over but the shouting with the Democratic presidential nomination in hailing distance But Republicans are likely to be snouting at each other before President Ford and Ronald Reagan settle their struggle Now with the long haul of the presidential primary elections at an end the campaign turns to the final caucuses and state conventions and to the delegates who have yet to declare a choice Carter goes to his task in a dominant position among Democrats a runaway leader seeking the final commitments to cement his victory The closely contested Republican race may become bitter with Reagan already irate at suggestions that he might risk war and Ford managers vowing to push that argument Ford still holds the Republican but Reagan has narrowed his margin And they face a battle for custody of every delegate in the nine weeks before the Republican National Convention Gov Edmund G Brown Jr of California winner in his home primary was the lone Democrat vowing an all-out contest to overtake Carter The former Georgia governor said his landslide victory in Ohio coupled with the delegates he picked up while losing in California and New Jersey had made other rivals active or potential believers in his nomination Carter won a presidential preference vote in New Jersey but it was for show binding no delegates An uncommitted delegate slate of Democrats who favor Brown or Minnesota Sen Hubert 11 Humphrey won the competition for nominating votes leading Carter's entries two to one In Republican Reagan California with a landslide while Kord won Ohio and an uncommitted stale which actually favors the President swept New Jersey II added up to 173 delegates for Reagan while Kord gained 91 committed delegates in Ohio and the virtually certain of more in New Jersey Counting the nominally uncommitted New Jersey delegates that would put Ford's delegate total at 962 Reagan's at with 148 uncommitted Republican delegates It will take delegates to select a nominee and there arc still 28.1 to he selected Carter led for 211 Democratic delegates In the primaries to pul his commitments at There arc 470 Democratic delegates and Carter claims unseen Winona Daily News j 121 si yey of publication Winona Minnesota June 9.1976 20 Pages 1 Insert 2 Sections 1 strength in Ihal column The will another LID delegates in caucuses and conventions II will lake delegates to win the nomination Carter said that hy his calculations now has between and I nominating votes said Tuesday night lie hud been on Ihc telephone in Humphrey Hep Morris K of Sen Krank Church of Idaho Alabama George C Wallace and Chicago Mayor I might say all nf them as a general group indicated their MM hat I be nominee Carter said 1 Mime they unanimously said they would like In WP the Democratic parly ho united They all any Interest In a slop movement ol any kind Carter said he didn't think rivals hkr and Church would slop campaigning Hut his most challenger ami Church a laic entry both said Carter is in a commanding posit ion Brown In every suite 1 have gone inlo Jimmy Carter has lost he said So I will go I think the Democratic is still open Continued on page Ford Wednesday's at Blast rocks Yugoslavian embassy An explosion apparently caused by a bomb rocked the Yugoslavian embassy in Washington early today police minor injury to one person A spokesman said a bomb went off outside the building causing considerable damage The blast heard throughout the city tore out portions of the rear part of the basement area HHH to Sen Hubert Humphrey again pondering a last-ditch challenge for the Democratic presidential nomination said today he will confer with front-runner Jimmy Carter and California Gov Jerry Brown before an- nouncing his own intentions The Minnesota Democrat made his statement to reporters before speaking to a grocers group He said he may announce his plans later today Humphrey noted Carter had a lead that would be difficult to overcome but said he was pleased with the victory of uncommitted delegates in New Jersey who support him Sen Humphrey Issue fails A controversial nuclear safety initiative that would have given the California Legislature the power to enforce strict safety requirements was soundly defeated by voters Tuesday Consumer Advocate Ralph Nader and the People's Lobby conceded defeat early in the evening blaming major utilities and oil companies for the failure If approved the proposal could have closed all California nuclear power plants by 1987 Miss Fugate paroled Convicted murderess Caril Ann Fugate was paroled Tuesday 18 years after she accompanied Charles Starkweather on a violence spree which left 10 persons dead She has earned her parole society has gotten its pound of said Jacqueline Crawford superintendent of the New York Women's Reformatory after the Nebraska Parole Board issued its ruling Miss Fugate was 14 in 1958 when she rode with Starkweather on his campaign of murder Now 32 she will be released June 20 Diet pill advertising banned A Federal Trade Commission administrative law judge has banned advertisements used by the Save Corp for some counter diet pills Judge Daniel order stated that even though the drugstore chain did not the for the Reducing it was responsible for deceptive representation made to the public First Lady sings While showing members of her staff something of her hometown First Lady Betty Ford spent more than an hour singing along with the piano player at a Grand Rapids Mich bar She wanted to show her staff Grand said Charles Anderson 63 the piano player at the Back Room Saloon in the Hotel Anderson said he worked with Mrs Ford at a local department store before her marriage in 1948 Mrs Ford later spoke at commencement exercises at Central High School Kord The inside Television The daily record Sports Markets J Partly Cloudy y will iw door to court rind Lows wll ty On upper dnd the low The Lays we qol some weather details page iSn j Will Rogers says Lots of people are banking on the excitement coming from the nomination of the vice president Imagine the Democrats worrying over who they will pick for vice president Just think of the poor Republicans They worry who to pick for president June 9 1924 Carter near nomination a standoff By Associated Press Writer Jimmy Carter ut best an outsider when primaries began lias capped his run from nowhere with a delegate harvest Unit puts him within u few quick moves of the Democratic presidential nomination For the Republicans the end of the primaries means a continuation of Ronald Reagan's challenge to President Ford Carter won only in Ohio of the three big stales that held primaries on Tuesday Rut he picked up more than 200 delegates and all his rivals hut one seemed ready to concede him the nomination The OIK who said he won't quit chasing Carter is Jerry Brown who won big in his state of California ami was joined with Hubert Humphrey an preferred candidates on an uncommitted delegate thai won in New Jersey I will go forward said 1 think I ho nomination is still open Portland meanwhile fought to a standoff virtually iv fight lo the convention in Kansas Cily two months from now the California primary and with it the delegates that go to thu winner there But Ford won almost all of Ohio's 97 delegates and an uncommitted stale swept New Jersey's delegate spots is packed with Ihc President's supporters is how the delegate looks the primaries Car I IT who picked up 211 delegates on Tuesday now has I ho needed for nomination His closest pursuer is Morris K Udall who has Brown who won in California lias and a in the uncommitted bloc of over defoliates On the Republican side counting Ihr nominally uncommitted New delegates Kurd's delegate is while As the votes were Tuesday anil even before it was clear it would be a flay for jumping on the Carter bandwagon Carter himself told supporters in think I'm going to he the And at a news conference he said lie had spoken by during I he day wilh three rivals Udall Frank Church and one rival Humphrey and Mayor Richard 1 Daley of Victory smile Republican Presidential candidate Ronald Reagan gets a pal of congratulations from his son Mike after he was declared the GOP primary winner in California Reagan's wife Nancy Is at his and behind him at right is daughter Maureen AP Wallace to toss backing to Ala AP The Birmingham News today Gov George C Wallace is preparing lo throw his support to Jimmy Carter as the Democratic party's candidate for president The newspaper said Wallace will announce at a conference later Hint he is asking the delegates pledged to him to support the former f governor The move could give Carter a big push toward a victory at the in New York next month It also could give Carter a Wallace made his decision the newspaper said after a midnight session with his advisers and a telephone conversation with Carter at Ins Plains home Chicago wlm a nominally com mi I led lo Sen Stevenson a favorite son All ol as ii general group agreed I lie nominee Carter said Ami just ill nf said finally Ideal after a spring ol seeing silver linings in cloudy results Inlall speaking in supporters in iller Ins pi linish on j si victory and a hi said Carter now i heavy lor and i slop Carler Hul In- would mil I hey he delivered church Ml He's conn HUM lo able In claim I ill lor a victory And he said nl with tile I I he hml an il would in Ilic day II Ualey who lie lo jump on Hie Ualey said he was mil any en ycl bin Ihal II Curler won Ohio us tic he'll IK The mayor nf whal lie NIC I that's we need Hill who lias won in Maryland in U.S worried Syria can't control fighting WASHINGTON API The United Stoles is increasingly apprehensive over the disintegrating military outlook in Lebanon and is worried Syria uill not bo able lo control the situation resulting from its invasion of the war-torn nation Syria has sent new troops into Lebanon since the weekend increasing total force there to just under U.S officials attribute the jump lo the failure of the original to restore order between warring Lebanese and Moslem factions However a ranking State Department official says Syrian have had heir noses bloodied by the Moslem leftists in the fighting over the past day or two in spile of the reinforcements and the use of kinks and air power This means that Syria now faces a serious lass of face unless it overcomes opposition The U.S sources say Syrian President Assad is therefore likely deeper into the situation The officials add that Syria did not inform the United Stales in advance of its troop has not told Washington of its final intentions in Lebanon They say they have no clear idea of what Syria is doing with its large-scale in- although one policy maker said he tends to believe Ihal Assad moans il when ho asserts his troops will withdraw once a cease-fire is operational and political stability is achieved Other sources believe Assad has intervened in order lo install a government in Beruit thai will to him and radical Arab forces that he cannot control Guerrillas claim Syrian drive slowed BEIRUT Lebanon AP Palestinian guerrillas and their leftist Lebanese allies claimed they slowed the Syrian armored advance on Beirut today as foreign Arab leaders tried to arrange a cease-fire in the Palestinian spokesmen said more than 500 persons have been killed and 1.200 wounded since Ihc Syrians on Sunday launched their drive on Beirut and Sidon the ancient cily 25 miles to the south The Palestinians wid Ite casualties included many C Beirut Radio reported Syrian President Hafez Assad and Yasir Arafat of the Palestine Liberation Organization agreed on a nationwide UTO hut was no confirmation of this from Damascus or from in Cairo The Arab League sent foreign ministers to Damascus with a cease-fire appeal and an offer of a token pan-Arab peace force to help end uie fighting Libyan Premier Abdul Salam arrived to try to arrange a truce The new Central Command nf leftist Lebanese Moslems and Palestinian guerrillas opposing the Syria n invaders claimed its forces stopped the advance of Syrian tanks on Beirut at Ihc outskirts of the mountain resort of 12 miles to the east for the second day There was no confirmation of the leftist claims because reporters were unable to reach the front A spokesman also claimed Palestinian guerrillas and the Lebanese Arab Army of Moslem defectors from Ihc Lebanese army were fighting off a relentless attack by Syrian tanks on Sidon Advancing behind heavy artillery barrages Syrians punched into cily before dawn Tuesday But they were pushed hack in fierce fighting during Ihc day and reporters on the scene said at least 11 Syrian tanks were destroyed The Central Command spokesman claimed a total o 24 Syrian tanks have been destroyed in Sidon and in- that the invaders had penetrated the cily again Broadcasts from Damascus gave no Information on the progress of the Syrian troops but they also in that Sidon or part of it was hack in Syrian I 1 hands NU I In Beirut heavy artillery and rocket exchange continued Jimmy Carter says he's No 1 for the Democratic presidential nomination scoring a landslide victory in Ohio primary and picking up delegates in New Jersey and California AP
