Convention Is to Air Platform Disputes

By William C. Treon

Plain Dealer Bureau

The

WASHINGTON Democratic Party platform committee, having rejected several planks offered by supporters of George C. Wallace, voted yesterday to allow the Alabama governor's forces to present his programs to the full presidential nominating convention next month.

Wallace's eight dissents will be part of a package of 20 minority reports to be presented to delegates in Miami Beach.

The large package of dissenting planks and parts of planks opens the convention to the thing Democratic Party leaders have been

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most anxious to avoid-the

appearance of divisiveness

and bickering on nationwide television.

SUCH WAS NOT the case as the platform committee yesterday ended its fourday session with a virtual love-in. Alabama delegates embraced Newark's black mayor Kenneth Gibson, who chaired most of the public debate the last two days. Gibson had nice words for everyone.

There was little apparent grumbling over the eightplank document prepared by a 15-member subcommittee and gone over heavily by the full 150-member committee, despite reports over the weekend of impending revolt by backers of Wallace and of South Dakota Sen. George S. McGovern, the front-runner for the nomination.

"I think it's beautiful, a splendid forward-looking document," McGovern said as he campaigned in Little Rock, Ark.

A spokesman for Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey of Minnesota called it "a responsible, liberal platform" that Humphrey could live with, and a spokesman for Sen. Edmund S. Muskie of Maine said, "We'd sure like to run on it.”

WALLACE BACKERS on the committee appeared satisfied with being able to take their proposals to the convention floor, although

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they were the most critical of the committee's document.

Wallace's campaign manager Charles S. Snider, in Montgomery, Ala., took a harder line, saying the platform was a "suicide note for November," and predicted unless it is changed the party would “suffer the worst defeat in its history.'

The platform does not include any language on such McGovern-identified pro-

grams as radical welfare reform, liberalization of abortion statutes or discriminalization of marijuana use, although his supports dominated the committee.

It does include provisions to use school busing where necessary, to pull out of Indochina as soon as a Democrat becomes president, to overhaul the present tax structure, to reduce military spending, to abolish the draft, to break up

"shared monopolies such as the auto, steel and tire industries" and “multinational corporations and other conglomerates” and to provide jobs for everyone able to work.

The Wallace group's main minority report says there should be no school busing for racial balance.

OTHER WALLACE minority reports would add a proposal to reinstitute prayer in the schools, a denun-

ciation of gun controls, an approval of capital punishment, a substitute for the plank on national defense and foreign policy and a reorganization of the federal judiciary.

The other minority reports, all rejected when offered as fered as platform provisions, included:

A call by the National Welfare Rights Organization for an "income security program” assuring a family

of four $6,500 a year.

• A call by the National Tenants Association for a return to pre-freeze rents.

• A proposal by a homosexual organization that there be no oppression based on "sexual orientation."

• Tax reform through repeal of existing laws and rebuilding from the ground

up.

• Liberalized laws

abortion