Wednesday, August 28, l968 DEMOCRATS Have Ott heard? Bttbert Humphrey appears headed tot ard that first ballot victory tonight at the Democratic Natio11al Co11vention. This after late this afternoor, overcoming a bitter challenge to the Jollnson admir,iatratior,'s Vietnam war policy when the convention voted - by a tllree to two margin - to reject tlae anti-war plank offered by the supporters of Senators McCartlly and McGovern. Was the HttmPhrey platform victory a costly one? For the moment it leaves tlae delegates deeply divided . In fact after tit e firtal tally •as art,ao11rtc ed, some wll o laad opposed tlle admi,aistratior, •ar policy dor,rted blaclt arm bartds artd Joirted i,a tlle mass sirtgir,g of "•e slaall overcome." Also tlaere were boos artd sl,011ts of "slot> tire ,oar"! Earlier, Humpltrey made heavy rte• irtroads into Ille favorite sort rartks of various state delegations - this after tire c O llat,s e of a draft- Ted K ertrtedy JJIO ve men t "'" ert Sert a tor DEMOCRATS - 2 Ken,iedy, himself, again made it Plain he would not be a candidate. Barring some Llnext,ected dramatic turn of events, in the balloting tonight, Hubert Humt,hrey is ass11,red of the nomination. Ne ertheless Senator McCarthy refuses to give ut, his anti-war crusade that he launclled eight mo11tlls ago in snowy New Hamt,shire. Said McCarthy - ''I laave,e't tllro•• in the towel." But l,e looked dlsst,lrited and tired as lie added - "I'm not exhausted - "6'll be aroM,ed." Yit,t>i es a,ed otll er aft. ti_ .,ar t,ro tes tors • trNggl ed ,o itlt f> olic e aga ift. today o,e C II icago 's late Jro,c t. Tl,e m el ee began .,,. e,.. a you tll climbed a fldgt,ole a11d tried to l o•er 011 American flag. As f>olice 1'ulled l,im do•" Ille cro•d slloMted protests; Viet c 0 ,. 6 flags a1't,eared; a11d smote bombs were th ,·own. AMBASSADOR _ _ ____ _ ___ , _ __ The United States ~mbasssdor to Guatemala ,< mine) • a tt) John Gordon Mein - was machine-gunned to death today in Guatemala City. The assassination of Ambassador Mein was confirmed in a statement issued at the Texas White Bouse a,ad also in Washington. has The State Det,artmen~called on the gover,ame11t immediate of Guatemala to conduct anAnves ligation. ef llte lut Ide wf. VIETNAM American paratroopers launched an attack against the remnants of a Communist regiment - in the woods and ~ - · c e Pad die near Saigon - after a voiding a'f" aj or am bush I t h e enem y had set for them" In another action at Due Lap - four miles frotn the Cambodian borde 1' - allied defenders called in air strikes against some Communist positions from whey they ha e kept an American base under attack for six straight days. CZECH ------- zechoaltn;,ut i& 'g leaders ha e 01·dered a crackdown on llze nation' radio, lele ision and other neus media. Said the government announcement in Prague "it will be necessary lo assert fully Uie go ernment's influence" on 4- communications media. Al ••• -■••• ~ ~~ ~ the borders 7 closed to all foreign newsmen. tTyfHf t9 , • • ' " f'!I • " • · Czech Premier Oldrich Cernik appeal•* an end Io all anti-Sovie I demons lf'al ions,) ~ ~ ~ w - e r v : ' -631 un 8 r; 1·e ·ti, wlt& 2 Pj( demanding they be told the truth about the agreement with Moscow hf which per m i ~ the Prague .,,.._, regime to stay in power. •11m1 alJf:laMulN ~eporls from London say there's a possibility that the Soviets ma)1 e en demand the disarming of Czechoslovakia's one-httndred-seven ly-five thousand-man army. NIXON ------ Richard Nixon will officially open his presidential campaign in Ho · uslon, Texas, on September Sixth. A spokesman for the Nixon campaign sar the decision Io o Pen t Ii e d ri e in President Johnson 's home stale indicates that Nixon regards Texas as a key state in the national e/.ection picture. ALASKA -------- Senator Ernest Gruening of Alaska - a lon . g- lime critic of the Vietnam war - apparently has been defe a ted in his bid for nomination to another term. With more than three-fourths of the state's precincts counted in the Democratic primary, Mike Gra el - a th ' rty-eight y ear o 1 d real e s ta t e de v el ope r fro m A n ch or age - ho l d s n sr,bstantial lead over Senator Gruening. JKE ---- Former President Dwight Eisenlzower was taken off the critical list at Walter Reed hospital today/-- ~~ say the long range outlook for his recovery is still "guarded". · ~:M.sa,, Phs I ha t , b e ca tt s e of t he ext en t of t he G en er al' s coronary history BJ ••N•iJio,r , "his present condition must still be considered serious)albeil not necessarily critical at this time." Ne has not yet been allowed to read books or newspapers, ~ no'A ,_T~l!A to sit up in bed. I ORPHANS --------- Ten orphaned children - all brothers and sisters rangi,zg in ag e belt een three and seventeen - ha e found a nei home in Concord, California, with /heir married aunt, Mrs. Stanley Graves. They were orphaned last month when their parents were killed in a h ig hwa y acc ide nt. A-f4-e-r-f4>-tH'ds he children- four boys and six girls - owed to slick ltq,U.ned ' Now, under a court together no ord"!t, !,,, ill 1, matter what,. ~together. Mr. and Mrs. Graves, who already have one child, will be aided by a forty-seven thousand dollar trust fund 41Ajl ~ ~ l i f o r n i a n s after the accidentj- ..,.. some donations coming from as far away as West Germany and Vietnam. AUTO ----- tl Tllirl; ye ars ago, a baby boy i as born in an 71, attlomob ile enroute to a hospital in Owensboro, Kentucky. Becar,se of this, the child was christened Lindell Auto Jones. That t as tliirt') , years ago. Today, Lindell . . Auto Jones face~ 11 prison sentence of six years - on charges ~ - of stealing an attt':)"•Ail 1 • - 6 crime he has been charged I t i th twenty-ti o times. AFRICAN ------ --- An African Ambassado1· - who is among t . . more titan a hundred diplomatic obser ers at the Democratic Con enli on - saJ s its jttst like '- tribal meeting back home. Said the African diplomat - "they palaver - they fight - ~~'~ they elect a chief - and then they unite." ua w As M ~Oli'e~ were reluctant to be quoted on their observations - but the, left no doubt about their belief that the proceedings in Chicago are of vital importance to their countries. ,C.e_ Q .. __...C'~ ~ ~ ~ - - - ...... ~ .A9--.,f- "' - -t-- "" ------