a1ret rii i n Vol. LXXXii No 41-S Ann Arbor, Michigan-Friday, July 14, 1972 I en Lents iwelve rages leton Selecte - as Dems nominee or vice presiden -Associated Press SEN. THOMAS EAGLETON of Missouri emerges from his Miami Beach hotel yesterday after Sen. George McGovern selected him for the number two spot on the Democratic Party ticket. TALKS RESUME: VS etsbattle for uang T SAIGON (") - South Vietnam- ese marines battled communist infantrymen yesterday in a third day of heavy fighting north aid northeast ef the city ef Quang Tri, field reports said. The marines claimed they kill- ed 118 communists and knocked out five tanks in a series of clashes several miles outside the northern provincial capital. Ranking military sources on the northern front said the 2,- 000-man government drive in7o Quang Tri Province has made some progress during the p a s t week but conceded the eon- munists remain in control of the city. "Indications are ,hat t h e North Vietnamese are going to defend Quang Tri right down to the wire," one source said. Capt. Gail Furrow, a p a r a- trooper adviser at the front on the southern edge of Quang rri, WNRZ to air free concerts The free Sunday concerts put on by the city's Community Parks Program and the Rain- bow People's party will be broad- cast live over WNRZ, 103 FM from 3-6 p.m., beginning July 16. This Sunday's concert, coming from Otis Span Memorial Field near Huron High School,. will feature the Sunday Funnies, Ruby Dee, Chip Stevens, and the Tasmanians. Disc jockeys for the WNRZ concert airing will be members of Ann Arbor Tribal Council's People's Communications Com- mittee. Special interviews are planned for the concert breaks. said that progress has b e e n slow but measurable. Every day, Furrow said, his battalion takes a few more bunk- ers, a few more houses, and kill'; 60 or 70 communists. But the North Vietnamese are putting up stiff resistance des- pite constant pounding by air strikes and artillery. In the air war, American fight- er-bombers and B52 Stratofort- resses pounded North Vietnam Wednesday in their heaviest raids in more than a week, leav- iog fuel depots, pipelines a n6 warehouses in flames. The U.S. Command reported more than 340 fighter-bomber strikes were flown against t he North, some of them within a mile of the port city of Hai- phong. Meanwhile, the 1,505th session of the Paris peace talks between the United States and N o r t h Vietnam were held today. The talks produced no signi- ficant results. Both parties are believed to be waiting for ano- ther session of secret talks be- tween Le Due Tho and Henry Kissinger. In a sideline development, mil- itary officials disclosed yester- day that some American heh- copters are now carrying tear gas canisters to prevent panic- stricken soldiers or civilian re- fugees from dragging them down in efforts to scramble on board. The spray-type canisters of gas were authorized because of the recent crash of two helicop- ters caused by desperate civil- ians and soldiers trying to climb aboard. By PAUL TRAVIS Special o The Daily MIAMI BEACH - The 1972 Democratic Convention last night voted to approve presidential nominee Sen. George McGovern's choice for running mate, Sen. Thomas Eagleton (D-Mo.). Before the final vote came, however, the convention consid- ered several other possibilities, from TV's Archie Bunker to Mao Tse Tung. In a more serious vein, femin- ist Gloria Steinem, leader of the National Women's Political Cau- cus, nominated Rep. Frances Sissy Farenthold (D-Tex.). "She changed the face of Texas poli- tics, Texas will never be the same again," Steinem said. Eagleton, McGovern's third choice for running mate, is a Catholic, with strong labor ties and a graduate of Harvard law school. A long-time foe of the Indochina war, he has been a leading spokesperson against in- creased defense spending. The announcement caused a stir among the press who had expected the nominee to be Gov. Patrick Lucey of Wisconsin. "Eagleton is not Southern enough, nor is he moderate enough to help McGovern much this fall," said one reporter. Frank Mankiewicz, McGov- ern's senior campaign advisor, said, however, that Eagleton would "compliment the ticket very well." "Be is an attractive man, a vigorous campaigner, and his views are very similar to Mc- Govern's," he said. Mankiewicz announced t h e Uemocratic nominees choice at a press conference at the Doral Hotel which had been postponed twice during the afternoon. Eagleton, who supported Eu- gene McCarthy in 1968, arrived at the Doral shortly after the announcement. "I was flabbergasted," he said. "It was late in the afternoon, well past the time I thought the decision had been made when they called me. I thought the job had gone to someone else." When asked what he felt the role of the vice president was, he responded, "The role of the vice president is as important as the president wishes to make it.'' Top McGovern aides drew this picture of the search for the run- ning mate: By 1ta.m. yesterday, Mc- Govern and his top aide had Secluded themselves in their penthouse suite atop the Dral Hotel with a list of seven can- didates. Under consideration were Rep. Wilbur Mills (D-Ark.), Gov. Reuben Askew of Florida, Sen. Abraham Ribicoff (D- Conn.), Mayor Kevin White of Boston, United Auto Workers head Leonard Woodcock, Mayor Moon Landau of New Orleans, and Eagleton. Working for hours, Mc- Govern and his aides narrowed the list to two names: White and Landau. Top party and labor leaders were polled to get their opinions See EAGLETON, Page 9 George McGovern Me(;overn calls for . . unity in party, nation MIAMI BEACH, Fla (M - George McGovern (D-S.D.) accepted the Democratic presidential nomination yesterday with a promise to unite the country by campaigning in all parts of the nation, and to end the war and rebuild Ameri- ca after taking office. Calling his ascent to the top of the party "a nomination of the people," the South Dakota senator said the United States is "entering a new period of important, hopeful change comparable to the political ferment in the eras of Jefferson, Jackson and Roosevelt." McGovern, whose nomination was viewed by many in his own party as a threat to Democratic candidates throughout the country, was highly conciliatory toward McGovern's statement on Vietnam EDITOR'S NOTE: The following statement was issued by Sen. George McGovern Wednesday as a elariication of his stance on viet- na. "I intend to implement the followingepolicy immediately upon my election as President of the United States: 1. All American bombing in Indo-China would be imme- diately stopped - with no pre- conditions. 2. All Amuerican ground for- ces would be withdrawn from Indo-China within 90 days - with no preconditions. 3. All military assistance to the Thieu regime would be im- mediately terminated with no preconditions. These three steps would end all U.S. participation in Viet- nam war. Under no circum- stances would I take any fur- ther action on behalf of the Thieu regime or any other gov- See McGOVERN's, Page 9 his opponents. The Senator, who has been widely criticized by fellow Democrats for his proposals to cut the U.S. defense budget, at- tempted in his speech to reas- sure them that he would not play into the hands of an ene- my. "It is necessary in an age of nuclear power and hostile ideologies that we be militarily strong," McGovern said. "Amer- ica must never become a sec- ond-rate nation." But McGovern hit hard also at the issue which launched his candidacy a year and a half ago and has continued to sus- tain it ever since: the Vietnam war. "Within 90 days of my in- auguration, every American soldier and every American prisoner will be out of the jun- gle and out of their cells and back home in America where they belong," he said. Turning to domestic issues, McGovern promised, "whatever employment the private sector does not provide, the federal government will either stimulate or provide itself. Whatever it takes, this country is going back to work."