The Michigan Daily Vol. LXXXVI, No. 44-S Ann Arbor, Michigan-Tuesday, July 13, 1976 Ten Cents Twelve Pages Demn convention opens Big party time in Fun City By ANN MARIE LIPINSKI Special To The Daily NEW YORK - The city of New York is throwing a party. And Mayor Abraham Beame, every bit the gracious, glowing host, is doing everything possi- ble to make his guests feel right at home. "HELLO, and welcome to our great city," Beame said yester- day, greeting a less than inti- mate luncheon gathering of dele- gates and members of the press which numbered in the thous- ands. "This week, we're going to make everyone proud by nom- inating the next president of the United States," he said, making his only reference of the afternoon to the serious bus- iness at hand, "And while you're doing it, please go out and have some fun." And "fun," without a doubt, was the key word in this Demo- cratic Convention city yester- day. YESTERDAY'S "uncheon, 2- en in honor of the city's dele- iite guests at the plush New York Hilton, could have been mis'aken for a enla Mardi gras celebration. T oid, brassv jan filled the Hilton's Grand Bill- room as deleuates nonred in, nicking ' i hbiuch nlates niled hi h with roast beef sandwiches and lemon mriloge pastries. W"gn the tnhlns were filled, d-la""t- sat with their inches On the hullrnu floor, ducking cohorts who found the music's initation to dance too hard to 1a e, suntanned and smiling, shook hn-ds tith deleantes eag- See IT'S, Page 10 Unity stressed b in eynote , 5 f ad/dress NEW YORK P)-With Jimmy -4z 3, iCarter smiling over the scene, tDemocrats joined in a unity c h o r u s yesterday and began their 37th national convention with Sen. John Glenn's keynote call for an end to divisiveness and despair, an American fu- ture "in which we can all be proud patriots. Carter's apparent h o u r at Madison Square Garden was R ,two nights away, but the con- vention wis his as he audition- ed vice presidential candidates at his hotel headquarters. IlS LIST of vice presidential finalists was down to six names, all of them senators. Carter said he was weighing them all for a choice that might be the most important of his life. He also said that in his polls, two of those names, Glenn of Ohio and Muskie of Maine, added to "rthe voter appeal of his ticket. Glenn and Rep. Barbara Jor- dan of Texas were yesterday's featured performers at the con- vention, sharing the keynote platform. "Now is the time to erase di- visiveness and despair, to keep the good from the past, to add our own good, to look to the future, to build a nation of jus- tice, a nation of equality, a nation of opportunity in which AP Photo we can all be proud patriots," said the astronaut turned sen- Peanuts... -an a prize? ator. "That is our hope . let's get going." A caricature of a grinning peanut with the legend "Carter" lies among the seats for the North JORDAN SAID the Democrats Dakota delegates prior to the start of the Democratic National Convention last night. It's mostly must "restore our sense of rats fun and games right now in New York, as the serious business won't s t a r t until Wednesday, tional community." when they nominate the presidential candidate. Carter is expected to win on the first ballot. See DEM, Page 10 Scranton praises Israel's raid UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. ()-Ambas- sador William Scranton yesterday called Israel's rescue raid into Uganda "a combination of guts and brains that has seldom if ever been surpassed." Referring to the pro-Palestinian hi- jackers who had seized an Air France jet and its passengers, Scranton demand- ed that the U.N. Security Council "do everything within its power to insure against recurrence of this brutal, callous and senseless international crime of hi- jacking-the crime which gave rise to the Israeli action.," NEAR THE END of the day's debate, British Ambassador Ivor Richard said he had received the "disturbing news" that Uganda was expelling a British diplomat in Kampala and that "serious threats" had been made against Britons means of "assuring the safety and re- in Uganda. liability of international civil aviation." He said the diplomat was the man who had seen Vora Bloch in a hospital after Israeli commandos raided Uganda's Entebbe airport and freed the other hos- tages. Uganda claims Bloch, who had both Israel and British citizenships, had been released from the hospital where she was treated for a stomach illness and had rejoined the others. Richard told the council Britain had "little doubt" that Bloch, 76, was dead. He accused Uganda of failing to investi- gate her disappearance. SCRANTON spoke to the council after Britain and the United States introduced a draft resolution that would condemn hijacking. It also would enjoin the inter- national community to s e e k further Nonaligned members of the council submitted a resolution that would "con- demn Israel's f I a g r a n t violation of Uganda's sovereignty" and demand that Israel pay compensation to Uganda. The conflicting resolutions set the stage for a confrontation between West- ern states and the Third World and Communist members. COUNCIL SOURCES said this would likely end with the defeat of both reso- lutions. The council is considering an African complaint against Israel's "act of ag- gression" in the July 4 raid. Israeli commandos rescued 102 hostages held for a week by the hijackers who seized the jetliner en route to Paris. ard[nUon