1 Both pa WASHINGTON (IP) - Much of the tra- ditional hoopla may be missing from the 1972 political conventions; they won't start the roll calls with Alabama and the favorite sons won't be favored any more. Plans being formulated by special commissions of both parties indicate Democratic changes will be far more sweeping than those in the Republican convention. Two Democratic groups have been working since early 1969 to revise the delegate selection process and the con- vention itself. Sweeping changes have already been enacted and others are in prospect. The delegate-selection changes, ap- proved at a Democratic National Com- mittee meeting in February, are de- page three Tuesday, April 13, 1971 rties alter convention procedures signed to make the process more demo- cratic and safeguard the rights of mi- norities. They assure the next conven- tion will have more women, blacks and young people. Changes in convention rules still are under consideration by a group headed by Rep. James O'Hara of Michigan. Final decisions are scheduled this spring. The Republican National Committee issued a report in January on conven- tion revision and is now working on delegate-selection procedures. Republican rules, however, provide that one convention sets the apportion- ment and selection procedures for the next so that most of the recommended changes won't apply until 1976. These changes appear in the proposals from both parties: -Candidates. Both recognize a differ- ence between serious presidential candi- dates and favorite sons, often put into nomination either to hold a delegation uncommitted or to give a state or poli- tician extra publicity. Democrats define a serious candidate as one with substantial support in three states, Republicans say five. -Favorite sons. Both would limit to five minutes the time for presentation of nominating and seconding speeches for favorite-son candidates. Democrats allot 30 minutes for speeches for each serious candidate, Republicans would cut it to 14. -Demonstrations. Democrats propose Rir4iio 11 to ban demonstrations, as they di( 1968, and provide that time for any 's taneous" demonstration by deleg would come out of the time for ni nating and seconding speeches. Re licans propose to limit demonstratior serious candidates and eliminate dei strations for favorite son nominatior -Roll call. Democrats propose tc place the traditional Alabama-to-N ming roll call for presidential non tions and determine the order by Republicans would pick the first s by lot, then proceed alphabetically. -Platform hearings. Both parties1 to hold hearings nationwide to get i form suggestions. Efforts also are under way to rec minor speeches and presentations-_ to make the conventions more interesting for television viewers. Democrats have adopted an elaborate credentials challenge procedure, are studying proposals to have the conven- tion elect its own chairman, and are adopting logistical arrangements to give equal say to each of the presidential hopefuls. The Democratic National Committee has approved a new apportionment in- creasing the strength of large, industrial states and reducing votes of smaller states. The Republican apportionment 'con- tinues the old system giving bonus dele- gates to states carried by the GOP iq the last presidential-election. J DIAL 662-6264 at State & Liberty ACADEMY AWARD NOMINEE! 1 :10-3:45-6:15-9 P.M. NEWS PHONE: 764-0552 BUSINESS PHONE: 764-0554 r NOTE SPECIAL SHOW TIMES! 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BRITISH FORCES yesterday encircled Londonderry, North- ern Ireland's second largest city, after ten soldiers were wounded in Easter day rioting. The troops fired rubber bullets to drive back the stone-throwing demonstrators in the Roman Catholic enclave of Bogside. Other troops were kept on alert as both Catholics and Protest- ants planned more of the parades that are traditional during Easter in the province. * * k PRESIDENT NIXON yesterday announced a $1-million pro- gram to attract disadvantaged veterans to expanded GI- bill job and education benefits. Nixon said the program is aimed at direct contact with 350,000 Vietnam-era unemployed veterans, and will start on an experimental basis in low-income and blue-collar neighborhoods in ten cities. "We owe these men a debt of gratitude for their service-but we also owe them something more," the President said. "The dismaying fact is that unemployment among Vietnam-era veterans still is significantly greater than it is among non-veterans in the same age bracket," he added. :* NEW DELHI, India (N - Premier Chou En-lai of the Peo- ple's Republic of China has pledged his nation's support.to Pakistan against attack by "Indian expansionists," Radio Pakistan said yesterday. Chou's message to President Agha Mohammed Yahya Khan followed a strong Chinese note to New.. Delhi last Tues- day claiming India was interfering in the civil war raging in East Pakistan Chou's message said China had noted the Indian govetn- ment recently had been carrying out large-,scale interference in Pakistan's internal affairs. Chinese aidto'I pledge 'akistan PARAMOU NTPICTURS PRESENS S,'"}. Ali Mac~raws Ryan Whea A HOWARD GMINSKY-ARTHUR HILER Production " John Marley&Ray Milland 9TH WEEK 603 E. Liberty DIAL 5-6290 Doors Open 12:45 Shows at I, 3, 5, 7, 9 Free List Suspended Co -Associated Press W estPoint CO First Lt. Louis Font displays the honorable discharge he received yesterday at Ft. Meade. Font is the first West Point graduate to be discharged on the grounds he was a conscientious objector. See News Briefs. 'NOTHING NEW': Egyptians reject S . Israeli peace offer By The Associated Press Lm= 02 ADULTS 0 NLY ROUBLE i a; .- r a garden of sensuality teenie tulip Adults Only a CINEX film: eastman color .1 SeU , .. sexualj .r ," brutal ity and Smer r I U ci~emU THE CIVIL AERONAUTICS BOARD (CAB) yesterday auth- Egyptian officials yesterday turned down an offer by Israeli Defense orized a temporary six per cent increase in domestic airfares. Minister Moshe Dayan to withdraw Israel's troops from the Suez Canal Airlines indicated they would put new fares into effect May 7. under a permanent cease-fire agreement with the stipulation that no The board also moved to permit airlines to raise the increase Soviet or Egyptian troops cross the canal. to nine per cent within 50 days. The Egyptians insisted their forces must occupy positions on the Edward Carlson, president of United Airlines said: "The increase Israeli-held side of the canal. will enable carriers to bridge part of the inflationary cost-price gap "Egypt will accept nothing less," officials in Cairo said. that has continued to widen in the air transport industry, despite "We have nothing new to add. Our position has been clarified stringent economy programs." by President Anwar Sadat's restatement of April 3." Sadat, in his restatement, demanded the partial withdrawal of OVER 1,000 JEWS were given permission to leave the Soviet Israel's forces from the Sinai Pe-;- Union for Israel in March, a knowledgable source reported yester- ninsula as the first step toward day, relinquishing all Egyptian tern - J\Tgi jjj tax tory occupied since 1967. SadatE The number of immigration permits, he said, exceeds the total said he would then reopen the of about 1,000 issued in all of 1970. canal. WASHINGTON (IP)- form- Soviet authorities were believed to have adopted a more liberal Sadat also said Egypt would emigration policy to relieve pressure from the Jewish community promptly close the waterway to er chief of White House eco- after a series of demonstrations last month by Jewish applicants "assume its national duties" as nomic advisers said yesterday for visas. Israel withdrew. President Nixon's multibillion- Dayan apparently envisaged a dollar tax break f o r business type 'of demilitarization of the could be inflationary, would ac- THE UNITED STATES table-tennis delegation got a look at western Sinai to be patrolled by in- tually hurt investment in the the Great Wall of China yesterday as their friendly Chinese ternational forces. near future and should be with- hosts accompanied them on their tour of the country. drawn, The Great Wall was one of the things the Americans said they On April 3, Sadat agreed to an "This looks to me like t h e wanted to see during their week of sightseeing and exhibition matches 'international arrangement" n wrong tax cut m the wrong way . Sinai to keep the hostile forces at the wrong time," said Wal- in the People's Republic of China. ter Heller, chairman of the The players, accompanied by several American journalists, are apart. He accepted the notion of Council of Economic Advisers the first Americans to visit China since the Communists came to demilitarization zones straddling under President John Kennedy. power in 1949. the frontier on both sides. He joined a well-coordinated Without specifying what kind of support would be given, the radio quoted Chou as saying: "Should the Indian expansionists dare to launch aggression against Pakis- tan, the Chinese government and people will as always support the 'Pakistanigovernment and people in their just struggle to safeguard the state's integrity and national independence." Chou said the civil war in East Pakistan is an internal affair that can only be settled by the Pakis- tani people without outside inter- ference. In the Indian-Pakistani war of September 1965 China issued a similar warning, telling India not to open a second front in East Pakistan. The war was confined to West Pakistan. Earlier yesterday India vehe- mently denied a Pakistani charge that two companies of Indian troops entered East Pakistan. Official Indian sources said that the East Pakistanis were using a mass civil disobedience campaign, as well as conventional warfare, to try to win the civil conflict against the heavily armed West Pakistan army. One high official said the East Pakistanis were cutting telephone lines and trying to take over tele- graph centers, post offices and tax collection offices. proposal hit chorus of opposition to Nixon's proposal to speed up tax write- offs for depreciating equipment at a 20 per cent faster pace, a system that could cost the Treasury $36 billion over the next 10 years. The opposition is led by con- sumer advocate Ralph Nader, Democratic Sens. Edmund Mus- kie of Maine and George Mc- Govern of South Dakota, a pub-' lic-interest tax lobby called Tax- ation With Representation, sev- eral private economists and: some union leaders. Ceylon steps up attacks on Guevarists COLOMBO () - Government forces heavily outnumbered on the ground - have stepped up their air war against the Che Guevarist rebels who . are, still' reported in control of Ceylon's outlying, jungle and plantation region. There was increased air activity over Colombo yesterday and the government announced aerial at- tacks on the revolutionaries in Kesgama and Waga, rubber plan- tations near the city. Occasional air raids by twin- propeller craft with gunners lean- ing out the side were reported by travellers returning to Colombo. Two large Soviet-built aircraft were sighted, and are believed to have been brought from India to help the hard pressed government. Government spokesmen reported several clashes with the insurgetts yesterday, claiming 20 terrorists were killed in a battle at Balle, in the north-central. region of the country. 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