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Norwich Evening Sun (Newspaper) - August 27, 1968, Norwich, New York Farm tractor kills town of Otselic Man 2 it Story. Photo it i a Jere a a the evening son vol. 78, no. 105 tuesday August 27, 1968 a Norwich new York 13815 10c per copy Hhd a grip tightens on demo nod tear Gas Routs 3,000 from Park Chicago apr More than 3,000 demonstrators protesting the Vietnam War and the draft were routed from a North Side Park with tear Gas monday night and chased chanting and shouting through Chicago streets. Twenty nine demonstrators and two reporters were hospitalized and scores of other persons were treated for lesser injuries. Sixty seven persons were arrested. Details on charges were not immediately available. Democrats drop old unit Rule Chicago apr democrats have shop away the Century old tradition of unit Rule voting despite a claim that front running presidential hopeful Hubert h. Humphrey supported a move to delay the action until 1972. Vice president Humphrey has been under fire in t was Aud other Southern delegations for the role played by his supporters in joining with backers of his chief rival sen. Eugene j. Mccarthy to vote unit Rule abolition in the rules committee last week. But he May have made up for that with a statement mend in quoted amid Boos to the democratic National convention by Texas Delegate Tom Gordon that a if you want to abolish the unit Rule Well and Good. But lets pass a Resolution hat will be effective in 1972. A i done to think that we ought to abolish what i think is an undemocratic Rule by an undemocratic Gordon quoted Humphrey As saying. But Gordon a move to substitute a minority recommendation to retain the unit Rule for this convention and abolish it in 1972 was shouted Down by an overwhelming voice vote. The rules committee recommendation for a a Freedom of conscience requirement to permit i Dividu to delegates to vote As they wish was then approx veil also by voice vote. Nine delegations Texas Alaska Arkansas canal zone a or Gia Kansas Missouri Louisiana and South Carolina came fettle convention with a nit rules requiring All votes to be cast the Way the majority voted the action could have the effect of freeing some delegates in the Oregon and Massachusetts groups where Mccarthy now has the entire delegation because of his victories in the two stages Winner Ake All primaries. But past conventions have made no Effort to enforce state primary Laws. On the whole the disappearance of the unit Rule after 108 years is expected to have Little effect on the presidential balloting. Subsequent Roll Call votes showed most of the members in the unit Rule states sticking together. Anti Auk riots Turkey target Ankara Turkey apr the turkish government fearing further anti american violence against . Sailors sent extra riot police to Izmir today for the arrival of More visiting . Navy ships. Led by the Cruiser Little Rock a task Force from the . 6th Fleet was to spend 13 Days in the Aegean seaport. Leftist students were reported preparing to meet the american sailors with showers of eggs and fruit and unfriendly placards. Some pro american turks expressed misgivings about the visit at a time of continuing controversy Over the 30,000 . Servicemen stationed in Turkey. Weather becoming mostly Clear and quite Cool tonight Low temperatures in upper 30s and 40s. Fair and a Little warmer on wednesday highs 65 to 72. Some 14 newsmen covering the protest were set on by police and beaten. Some of the newsmen had microphones and television cameras in their hands and others had democratic National convention press credentials dangling from their necks. Several Miles across the City the convention met for its first session surrounded by a tight ring of Security and undisturbed by outside demonstrators. Shortly ii fore the Park confrontation More than i too of the protesters youths in the peace movement and Yippie so members of the youth International party broke through several pockets of Iki Lico Security and marched to the downtown democratic Headquarters. The clash in Lincoln Park which runs several Miles along the North Side lakefront was sparked by the protesters refusal to obey a police order to Clear the Park for an la . Curfew. The group quickly erected a barricade of picnic tables and trash cans in one Corner of the Park against some goo policemen massed in a parking lot opposite them and chanted a hell no we wont go. The Parks belong to the a this is the final warning a a police Loudspeaker boomed. A we have information that some persons in the crowd intend to injure police officers. We will take whatever measures Are necessary to see that no one gets Hurt including police then police Lobl ted in tear Gas canisters and the throng streamed through tile Park and out into a major intersection. Many held handkerchiefs Over tearing eyes when they reached the Street. A police squad car that had attempted to approach the crowd from behind was stoned and its windows and flashing Light broken. Police ordered newsmen to leave the Park ii fore the tear Gas was used. They warned that no Sanction or Quarter would lie Given if they stayed. In the Street outside the Park the demonstrators regrouped and taunted police with shouts of a pig and some threw bottles and other debris. As the police formed phalanges and charged them the crowd surged backwards and ran into the old town area a District of night clubs and restaurants where they brought traffic to a standstill and disrupted Busi Ness until the Early morning hours. Johnson Marks birthday Ino w Ord on v Isit Washington apr president Johnson turned go today Slimmer grayer and move secretive about his birthday doings. Unlike past years in which a he presidential birthday Vas usually deserved by a big family gathering with plenty of notice beforehand there was no Advance wed on wha1 Johnson planned. While Johnson celebrates or a it least observes the Start of his sixth decade the party he Heads is holding its nominating convention in Chicago. When and whether Johnson would pay a visit to the invention was the subject of much speculation but traditionally outgoing presidents have wafted until a2ter the nominations be fore putting in an appear me. That would make it t thursday if a presidential visit is planned at All. Just four years ago Johnson was the Toast of the Boardwalk at Atlantic City n.j., when democrats gathered for their quadrennial convention. Showing up for a gala birthday Salute the president accepted nomination and went on to win a record landslide Over Republican Barry s. Coldwater. Today was different. Johnson is not a candidate for another Terra. His popularity within his own party has been eroded by War in Vietnam and civil discord it Home War Plank key to nominal Richard Daley mayor and Host Edward Kennedy Booklet deflated John Connally in huh Camp gov Richard Hughes veep contender John Bailey National chairman Daniel Inouye keynote speaker Carl Albert Parley chairman Hale Boggs platform chief czechs rein in with paid gradual pullout of troops vowed Prague apr president Ludvik Svoboda said today tile soviet Union and the other four countries that occupy Czechoslovakia have agreed to withdraw gradually All their troops. A we have achieved a Basic agreement on the gradual Complete withdrawal of the troops. Until that time their presence is a political reality a Svoboda said in a nationwide radio address. Even As he spoke soviet tanks began a withdrawal from strategic Points in Prague they had occupied since the russians and their Warsaw pact allies moved into the country tuesday. Svoboda headed a czechoslovak delegation that held four Days of talks in Moscow with soviet leaders. He and his delegation including Alexander dul. Cek the reformist communist party Leader returned to Prague Early today. A huge crowd gathered out Side the parliament building As the National Assembly met to Lear i. Hat happened in the four Days of negotiations in the soviet capital. The free czechoslovak radio warned the nation thai its heaviest Burden is yet to come and May Inelus re imposition of press censorship. A everyone is wondering what we shall have to pay for this Compromise for no one believes that the soviet party leadership would admit the fiasco Aud pointlessness of the entire Acton a it said. The broadcast appealed for Calm Aud patience. Arriving at Prague Airport. National Assembly president Joseph Smrkovsky told a reporter a there is no time for Long talk but i feel we shall get out of the or it we cheered his arrival at the a Iona Assembly in the crush one elderly Man apparel to suffered a heart attack and two women fainted across the Square tile russian Crew of an armoured Cai watched t i growing throng Ppearl at a window and waved a a it Rose thrown to him by a Young girl he seem d on the verge of tears. The crowd chanted tit a Nati a o. The leaders of Czechoslovakia a 111 t All action drive. Although tie re is no con fir Illarion of the terms of the re ported preliminary agreeing it communist p in Sou is said the most difficult task facing Eisenhower Delors Ivow a cautiously dipl Imilie Washington apr former president Dwight i. Risen Bower a condition is still a critical a his doctors reported Tod a a but they now feel that they can voice a cautious optimism about his Outlook. In a medical bulletin at to . Edt doctors of Walter Reed army Hospital reported a Gen. Eisenhower spent i restful evening. Although heart irritability persists to a varying degree there have been no in i Jor disturbances since saturday evening. A despite his Long period of confinement in bed the Vener alas spirits remain remarkably Good. A insofar As is possible in tin setting of Gen. Eisenhower a still critical condition his physicians have expressed a not of cautious thus it appeared that the five Star general who suffered his seventh hot Art attack on aug. In had rallied at least temporarily from a series of setbacks of varying degree of severity that had beset him beginning with last saturday Mornin. This in o r ii i a a s bulletin marked the first time during Eisenhower a present attack that his doctors have volunteered an optimistic not a however cautious Eon Cernin the general a prospects for recovery from the c current attack. However they hav indicated in response to questions submitted by reporters til at in had at least a statistic ii Chance of survival despite his Ion history of heart attacks and the obvious severity of his late Tom. Their leaders was to reconcile the pop to the continued presence o. Soviet occupation troops in the i aint a. To. A official soviet news Agency Tiss did not mention an agreement. It said the negotiations in the soviet capital were a held in a Frank and comradery tin com minims tis a a Frank to signify disagreement hut a comr Adelyn is aft Morable word. Informed sources said Xis i Bly As Many As i >0,000 soviet troops would remain in cd Cho Slovakia at bn., for a while with infers not to int crier Iii the country a inertial affairs. Even such reforms As press Freedom might be left intact they said but the free czech radio said censorship would in ply once Mer to All matters concerning other communist countries. There were indications More talks would be needed for final agreement. The raising of the presidential Flag at Era Hany Castle it 5 2.7 signalled the return if president Ludvik Svoboda who la cd the czechoslovak delegation to Moscow Friday. Toe free czech radio said those who returned Ilso included communist party chief Alexander Dubcek. Who Cairn to Power in january Ani carted leading his country away from 20 years of stalinist Type rub. Chicago apr vice president Hubert h. Humphrey tightened today his encircling embrace on the democratic presi dental nomination with the a. Parent collapse of efforts to Drift sen. Edward m. Kennedy and the erosion of Southern re Siat Alice. A party convention vote tonight on a Vietnam Plank in the platform shaped to Humphreys liking and opposed by sen. Eugene j. Mccarthy of Minnesota seemed Likely to provide a key countdown on the nomination outcome. The platform committee put before the heavily guarded and restricted convention a Plank rejecting any unconditional halt of the bombing of North Vietnam following the Phil Isles Laid Down by Humphrey and opposed by Mccarthy the committee recommended i declaration that cessation of the air strikes must not endanger the safety of . Troops and must in made Only when there is evidence of a reciprocating military Dot escalation by North Vietnam. White House associates said the adoption of such a Plank could be the signal for a Ducci Sion by president Johnson to Fly to the convention later this week to receive its plaudits after the presidential nomination is voted. A visit Oil his Goth birthday today however was All but ruled out. There was a tumultuous floor fight in Prospect on til platform committees version of How to Quot it peace Iii Vietnam. Hie committee struck hard at the views of Mccarthy and sen. George s. Mcgovern of South Dakota a fledgling candidate who has failed to draw any significant support to his belated bid for the top nomination. The committee rejected Mccarthy a and Mcgovern a variously worded proposals for american withdrawal from Vietnam. It turned Down Mccarthy a suggestion that the United states make til Advance commitment for the inclusion of communist representatives in a coalition Saigon government. Instead it said the makeup of that government should be de trained a by Lair and safeguarded elections open to ill major political parties Ami actions. This preliminary Victory for Humphreys viewpoint was relic by by other developments Iii his arly morning hour ses Sion that seemed to propel the vie president even further ahead of his rivals for the top nomination. Insurgent democrats backed by Mccarthy failed Iii their Challenge to these Ding of i Texas delegation headed by gov. John Connelly who is expected to take his 104-vote group into Humphreys Camp. Tri report says i hat just since 1000 serious crimes up 89 percent Washington up a if there Are too people on you a Block chances Are two of you will be murdered raped robbed or beaten in the coming year. And f somebody pulls a weapon you it probably will be a gun. These Are key facts in the of big a annual uniform Crim a reports a volume of data supplied by Law enforcement agencies across the nation. It was released monday with a message from Fri director j. Edgar Hoover calling for a great social action to prevent and abort mor careers in the report contain a for the first time a detailed comply n a of murders by firearm in a states Between 1962 and 19g7. The statistics show a signify coldly higher incidence of my Der by firearms in states wit out strict gun controls than it those few that have such co troist a showing in keeping at hoovers longtime Apa for Federal gun controls. On of the most St Ertling get Ristics was the figure on Crim for the decade showing an per cent increase in series crime in the nation since 1960, with a Rise in crimes of violence of 73 per cent. Serious Crim a there were More than 3,8 million serious of tenses commit Bdl ins in per cent in 1907 Over 1966, the report said. Nearly 500,000 of these serious crimes were classified As crimes of violence. Firearms were a it 1 n g3 Peg cent of All murders. In i960, gun murders amounted to less than h lf�?47 per cent of All Horn fides there a Ere also la pc pent More murders last than in the previous 12 months the challengers who sought 50 scats on the delegation were turned Back by a vote of 1,368 to 955. Convention delegates previously had Defeated a proposal to delay action on the troublesome questions of seating lie Legates. Supporters of met artilly and Mcgovern wanted the argument delayed. Humphrey asked that the questions be settled immediately. He got his Way by a 1,691 5 to 875 vote substantially larger than the 1,312 votes needed for a presidential nomination. The hastily floated balloon for a presidential nomination for sen. Edward m. Kennedy of Massachusetts was quickly deflated. Kennedy called former gov. Michael v. A Lsalle of Ohio to instruct him not to place the senator s name in nomination. Disalle immediately hedged on his announced intention of doing so but said someone else might. Frank Man Kiewetz former press Secretary to the late sen. Robert f. Kennedy now working for Mcgovern said the whole operation of trying to draft the surviving Kennedy brother had been a Wishful a a lot of delegates have been l Asting about for so Melody else lie Ca use they done to think Humphrey can win a he said. He said Iii thinks that if Mcgovern does t make the Grade the South Dakota senator will free any delegates pledged to him without endorsing any candidate. Previously Mcgovern had said ii a would withdraw in favor of Kennedy if the latter wanted to run. Jesse p. Unruh chairman of th1 174-vote California delegation who had been reported flirting with the draft Kennedy movement said there could be a decision by that group later in die Day where it will go. Mccarthy refused to accept Kennedy a disclaimer As final. A i think he is still a potential c candid at in this convention a Mccarthy said monday night. The facade of Southern rests. Lance to Humphreys nomination built around objections to the immediate Ali lotion of the unit Rill by which a majority can control the entire vote of my state delegation was cup no tiling. By a Voic vote delegates threw out the Century old unit Rule. The result affected nine Southern delegations which had protested that the northerners were running Over them. Sen. Georg Smathers of Florida led what could become a a. R Ide of Southern favorite sons bowing out Iii favor of hum. Prey. He predicted the vice president would get 57 of the states g3 votes. The vie presidents forces had counted on a Domino re a. Tion earlier among these local leaders enemy shells yank artillery base hard the a i Ort said. The police batting average in solving Crim fell by 8 per cent Aid Hoover express some concern Over the reason the a it it port gave for the Jip Page. He blamed court decisions Chich he Aid Estride \ police investigative and enforcement practices plus the increase in workload for folic not related to crime and under strength police forces. Seventy six policemen were killed by criminals in 1967, this was 19 More than ii Aud wll above the annual average of 48 Saigon apr Ari Anteri can artillery base on the Jungle Quot infiltration corridor Northwest of Saigon came under blistering 200-round rocket and mortar barrage today and then beat Back a weak infantry assault. By the Light of flares from circling support planes the americans it Down at least 27 enemy soldiers. . Headquarters estimates 7,500 enemy slain in the intensified Viet Cong assaults of the last nine Days and the communist command appeared to be shifting to less costly rocket and mortar attacks. The Allied command reported heavy barrages it Camps and towns from the demilitarized zone South to the Mekong Delta. In addition to the 200-Shell barrage at fir base Rawlins about 50 Miles Northwest of Sal gon enemy gunners raked four other posts along the infiltration route Northwest of the City. Two of the Camps were hit by Light infantry assaults. Shellings were reported it a dozen South vietnamese my american Camps in the Mekong Delta and in the due Lap area when More than 800 enemy lied attempting to overrun a . Special forces Camp Over the weekend. Enemy gunners in the due Lap area also shot Down a twin engine Caribou transport plane monday and a ground patrol that reached the wreckage found the three american crewmen dead. Air reinforcement of due i a appeared to be risky still. Aloin the demilitarized zone North vietnamese gunners opened up monday and today with the heaviest hellfire there in several weeks. . Marine bases at Dong a Cua Viet and Pielow con Thien caught almost 250 rounds Many of them from 130mm guns firing from North v Vietnam. Today a chuckle Romance is like a game of chess. One false move a and you re mated

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