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T. the "Meat Costs. Soar i 4f elimination of meat-import quotas' keep "the lid on scaring Jef. prices? not, for a iJptoXiPfjreasons. TheniDve opens the door to more "Imports but there's little reason to believe that exporting nations i 1 1 take advantage of it.

For one thine. jfiarketsKin iEurope and elsewhere riln addition, exporters may be )' unwilling to risk their, relationships 6ther customers for a temporarily freer market here. The move is only effective for the rest of this' year. Meat; prices historically are high eirln this country, however, so undoubtedly there will be some extra Inflow of The President himself warned that there will be no immediate im supermarket prices, "but the action, definitely will help in the future." And he pledged to 'take whatever further "measures that necessary to prevent increases in the cost of Uawr rr, ir kkb tama mwe ajwt Auxy' One suggestion has been to clamp controls on meats, but the temper of the Congress indicates that this is unlikely to meet its approval. And the White, House has been decidedly cool to such a measure.

The House agriculture subcommittee wants the General Accounting Office and Federal Trade Commission to study the meat pric ing system, but we think they'll find little "there "that will chew away the "fat" in beef prices. Improvement of the industry's productivity might do a little to ease the upsurge. Meanwhile, Democratic critics of Nixon's move see little but a "publio relaOons Rep. Rosenthal, El N.Y., said the quota suspension mah have a beneficial effect on hamburger and hot dog prices but ft is too little and too late to trim beef prices in the foreseeable future. He favors strict meat price controls and repeal of the Meat Import Quota Act.

We go along with him halfway. Repeal of the meat quotas would'' permit the law of supply and demand to operate and would force America' meat industry to meet the competition. However, Rosenthal's suggeston of pfice controls has just the opposite effect it attempts to repeal the law of supply and demand. The sooner we get rid of all con trols the better. When the economists bring inflation under rein, the nation can return the era of "fine well in the early and middle 1960s.

Remember, it was only when the Congress and the Johnson administration delayed for three years in applying theincome tax surcharge to balance the Vietnam inflated budget that, inflation went out of control. Now that inflation curbs are beginning to work, let's not mess too much with the law of' supply, and demand. It works! By CHAPIN A. DAY TODAY nnMl Nn Strain It' not everyone' idea of a fun weekend hold 120 people in a plane at gunpoint, circle an airport for three hours, demand njpney, strap on a parachute and take a flying leap Into space from a i speeding jetliner. But when a personals lonely, lonely to" the point' of, mental imbalance, at least it is something to do on a Friday to get the weekend rolling.

Starting with' Friday, Nov, 1972, 10 of 18 commercial airliner hijackings in the U.S. (not all i parachutes) have' happened' on Fridays. An' 11th, the unsolved D. B. Cooper caper in the Pacific Northwest, took place on Wednesday, Nov.

24, Thanksgiving Eve. To' one Dallas psychiatrist, Dr. David G. Hubbard, the developing pattern of Friday and pre holiday hijackings is not coincidental. Hubbard, who has interviewed more than 40 hijackers and has wirtten a book about them, "The Skyjacker: His Flights Of Fantasy," that several factors contributed to the trend.

"The most important thing is an unconscious one these are extremely lonely people seeing a weekend coming up," he' said. While others around them are planning weekend activities with family and friends, potential hijackers "have got nobody arid nothing." Thesd tire extremely lonely doodIg seeing a Weekend coming Uffc. While others around them are planning! weekend activities with family and friends, potential hijackers have got nobody and Psychiatrist's view of hijacker's who choose Fridays for their acts. F65 A hijacking 'becomes a means' of filling the void in their lives, Hubbard said. ''It's almost as if they have their own perverse "celebration that weekend was looking like bell and he (the hijacker) didn't want to face it," he said.

At the conscious level, practical matters can influence a hijacker to act on Friday, Hubbard said. "More banks stay open late on Friday than on any other day of tbe week," he said. To the hijacker hoping to extort money4he late bank hours probably hopes that cash will, befljore readily available, "thoughactually it very little difference," Hubbard' said. By striking on Fridays, the psychiatrist said, the "hijacker also takes advantage American business schedules. "It's the end of the week and I is own fat a rest he th their the authority about to lay di In other woi catches the airlines britches down." Asked if hijackers choose Fridays 'to suit their, own Mohday through Friday, work week, Hubbard said: "They are frequently unemployed.

They are the bottom peg on the economy." Hubbard, who has traced the history of air piracy, finds that the rise in Friday affd holiday hijackings is a relatively recent development. During the 1960s, he said spates of. hijackings were apparently linked to major achievements in the space program. The greatest outbreak Of hijacking in that decade was spurred by the Apollo 8 mission to circle the moon in December 1968', a Trie, first Mercury and Gemini flights prompted earlier hijacking exploits, he said. ''In sway it (the Friday pattern) follows," he said "The space shots in themselves werea holiday" Hijackers' he has interviewed, the psychiatrist said, "show an unusual Interest.

In the idea of flight" and frequently describe "unaided flight dreams." The recent switch iin hijacker tac tics to include parachute escapes "Is only one manifestation of mat 't phenomenon." "Most of thesexmen have never seen a parachute, much less put one on," Hubbard said. But by, leaping from plane, they can fulfill a dream "they are a bird." Hubbard objected to a reporter's question a a "political hijackings." In the cases he had examined, he said fit turned out that their politics was handy flag to wave." Beneath their rhetoric and demands, he continued, the so called political t. are much like the money ex "These guys are basically paranoid schizophrenics and they are loners from the time they are kids," he said. "Many are effeminaje taking control of a stewardess" Is their "imitation of masculinity," he "There have certainly been no real all American boy types." 'He's Going to Make 'Not Quite Just About' fetrrrvfrVfW Bobby Makes His Move Can a lone American successfully challenge a product of the Soviet Union's time tested chess machine? Can a 1 1 temperamental genius keep his cool through the grind of a 24 game championship series? Can Bobby Fischer, America's challenger, end a 25 year reign for the U.S.S.R. as world chess champions? 4 We'll start getting" the answers Sunday when Fischer Brooklyn's now grown up child prodigy faces world champ Boris Spassky across the 64 square board.

The championship match has attracted widespread interest in this nation, which has tended to regard chess as a dull, slow, sedentary game that eggheads play. Aficinados know better. It's a game that demands great physical 'stamina as well as superior con centration when played at the in ftff ternational grandmaster level. Bobby's youth was Credited in part with his victory in the challenge round over the Soviet's 'former world champ, Tigran Petrosian. At 43, the one time Russian "tiger" isover the hill.

Bobby's lopsided victories in the preliminaries have excited great interest in nation, with a parallel rise in chess set sales. Bobby who trains as strenuously as "any athlete (mainly bowling, swimming and table tennis) has indirectly led many Americans to the game of chess. They have discovered that the game not only is interesting and challenging, but just plain fun. For. Fischer and Spassky, the match promises to be a grueling challenge.

If we were a gambling man, our money would have to go on Bobby. It's your moye, Boris IS 3 j. :t.v. Ax: 'itv fv. rr hr mi.rv..

fip ab I It Jsi tuffflmft'U. tbraKarlfortUimcs Jack Bell National Economy Seen As 'Persuasive Issue' True Life Story of John and Martha in the Big Time WASHINGTOiN Washington Is all aflutter over Mar that Mitchell's latest escapade. When we last left Martha, she Was in seclusion th a plush country 'club in upstate New She had departed CaBfornia in a huff after a security guard allegedly pulled her phone off the wall. Martha didn't like losing her telephone. Win John Mitchell reconcile his differences with his wife? Will Martha mend her ways? We couldn't reach the Mitchells for comment.

But intimates hive helped us put together the story of the lutloA'r jnost talked about marriage. John and Martha Mitchell were married in pecember W57. it.wMBt weddhuj The brld didnt wear a long white dress, Thr vows in mkton. Mr a seedy i ki num then known for 1U Tipr quicklai (marriages, had been di sta.Beno pa pecember The IWde, got her divorea, three months earlier in Miami. John's first wile, BeUy, was cooperative.

"John Just walked One morning and asked for a divorce," she confided to friends. Martha's first husband, Clyde Jennings had a rougher time in divorce court. Martha accused him beating her and carrying on with other women. But at one point In the proceedings, William Poler, a private detective hired by Martha, testified that she "was neurotic. Excuse the expression.

She was sick and all mixed up." Clyde Jennings confirms, at least, that Martha was volatile. "She would have a few drinks and then talk down to people," he recalls. Her habit of making lite night pbone calls is also rooted in the past. "It was neighborhood stuff then," recalls Jennings. "Now she has a national forum." 'The marriage last 11 years.

They had one son. Jay, whom JenniiustcUimswak.neglected Jack Anderson as. a teenager by Martha. Like many children of divorced parents Jay became entangled in a web of bitterness. His father claims that, at 16, Jay left his mother and came to live with him with 48 cavities in his teeth.

Says Clyde Jennings: "That was about the time Martha was spending $4,000 to have all her teeth capped." Jay, now 25 and a Vietnam veteran, has reconciled with his mother. For John and Martha Mitchell, meanwhile, life was pleasant. A daughter Marty, was born. They moved often in the early years of marriage, but they usually nested within the lush confines of counties in suburban New York. Martha had many friends among tbe a pjaying matrons of the community.

'When'the Mitchells came to Washington, Martha received a warm welcome from the press. The Nixon cabinet wives were a drab collection of housefraus who echoed worn out phrases about "help 4gg the Nixon team" and "community Involvement." Martha MitcheUyaJon stood out. She had color, a cense of humor and could always be depended upon for She took her publicity Westchester and Fairfield seriously and began speaking out on national issues. Her outbursts became an embarrassment to the Nixon Administration. Yet her rhe tqric was cheered by many Americans.

Huge amounts of mail arrived at her Watergate apartment following each new antic. Most of it was warm and enthusiastic. Even President Nixon once egged her on. John Mitchell talked over Ks marital problems this week with the President. Intimates say the President was understanding and urged him to straighten things put with Martha.

It remains to be seen, however, whether she will get her telephone back. WASHINGTON WHIRL Humphrey's Plan Hubert Humphrey has acknowledged to friends that it will take a political miracle to stop George McGoyern, from, winning the Democratic presidential nomination' next month. But the happy political warrior said bit will stay in the race as rrTv.ll, H' long as the labor leaders and party regulars think there's a chance. This will put him in a position, he told friends, to lead the McGovern goes into' McG'overn's camp and unite the Democratic party. He plans to tell them: "I stuck with you to the 'end.

Now let's together join George McGov ern in defeating President Nixon in November." Security, crackdown Defense Secretary Mel Laird has ordered a crackdown on military leaks While he paid lip service to the public's right to know, he told subordinates 1 that be wanted "rig Id." protection of classified information. He was "particularly concerned," he said, the disclosure of 1 Uigence Certainly, 1 the Defense, Department Is entitled to protect some secrets. But more often' than not, the classification system is used to hide, errors and embarrassmentsembarrassments WASHINGTON Party and candidate pledges notwithstanding, what may be the most persuasive issue in the presidential campaign is likely to turn on the performance of the national economy in the next few months. Sen. George S.

McGovern, the prospective Democratic nominee, alrea'dy has launched his attack on what his associates call the i I of the Republican administration. He will have a great deal of flexibility under his party's vague economic promises to develop this line further. With a month's additional time to read the signals on prices, employment and inflation after the Democrats have adjourned their convention, the Republicans will either crow about or cover up these signs, depending on their importance at the time. But neither party's declaration will mean much when matched against the bread and butter facts in October. In this important field, moreover, the Democratic nominee will be limited to promising better times and hoping that they won't arrive too soon.

President Nixon, on the other hand, is restrained in acting to change the rules in midgaine only by the limits of what strong medicine he and his advisers can think up to applyln the fall if recovery is lagging and inflation is zooming. Nixon has made it clear that he will act to keep food. prices from going through the roof His action to lift the curbs on meat imports is a first and hesitant step in that direction. At the risk of turning stockmen against him, the President has opened the way making more meat available before the election. The catch is that it will not be the kind of meat Americans want to eat unless it is ground up first.

But if he can get the hamburger vote, He figures it will help. The Price Commission has shelved the idea, for at least month, of imposing controls on the prices farmers get for raw foods. But that does not necessarily mean that such controls will not be ordered later under Nixon's commitment to "take whatever measures are necessary" to check runaway food prices. In other phases, optimistic Stein is sticking to the predictions that prices will rise only between 3 and 3 percent this year and That unemployment will decline from 6.9 percent to around percent. Stein fiids bullish signs in the economy: Industrial production has gained nine months straight; personal income has risen for eight months.

retaiL are 19 percent higher than a year ago; corporation profits are at record levels. But little the housewife cares about these statistics if what she; pays at the chain store continues to go up. Nor will they impress the head of a family who feels Insecure about keeping his job. They won't matter at all to a man or woman who can't get a job. Although he can't' admit it, McGovern must hope that a mood of economic uneasiness pervade the country as the election nears.

He is doing his best already to promote the idea that Nixon's policies are to blame for 'rampant" unemployment, inflation, economic uncertainty a favoritsm" he says burden the country. Other typiqal quotes. "Unemployment, persists at around 6 percent despite all the controls and the a 1 nistration has unsuccessfully tried Inflation eats away at the pocketbook of every American Wage controls are squeezing the American working man and woman But price controls are not bothering the big corporations at all. The only consistent thing about the administration is its economic favoritism in support of big concentrations of wealth and power in this does McGovern propose to do about it? He' promises "an immediate investment of $10 billion to creat 2.6 million jobs." wants "inflation Insurance" under which low interest rate government bonds for small investors would Increase In value yearly as the cost of living goes up. AMoment ForPrayer Take Lord, and receive my entire my memory, my understanding, and my whole wUL All that I am, all that 1 have.

Thou hast given me. and I will give it back again to Thee te be disposed according to Thy good pleasure. Give me only Thy love and Thy grace; with Thee I am rich eaongh. aec do I ask for aught besides..