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Florida Today from Cocoa, Florida • Page 3A

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Florida Todayi
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Cocoa, Florida
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Icelandic authorities could not imagine Bobby Fischer would abandon his" long struggle to the chess summit because of an argument over a paltry few thousand dollars. They were not giving up hope Fischer would still be on nand when the action begins in earnest at 5 p.m. Sunday. At that time, the 29 year old American prodigy is scheduled to face Russian world champion Boris Spassky in the first of 24 matches that could run until August 24. But grave doubts were casover the.

whole picture by an unseemly squabble with Icelandic authorities ove'r money. Fischer has demanded the players get 30 percent of the 'gate 'in addition to the $125,000, plus 60 percent of television and picture rights the Icelanders have already promised them. "We are trying to avoid financial disaster," said Iceland Federation President tt da Thorarinsson. "We are not The financial rewards were 10 times greater than for any previous match, he The financial dispute jeopardized Fischer's chance to nd 45 years of Soviet domination over world chess and also his chance' to become the second American world champion. The first was Paul Morphy, Tvho in 1857 was the second world champion.

Rains, Fighting Slow South Viets TOOAY AP Wlrapllotoa SAIGON CAP) The South Vietnamese counteroffenslva on the northern front was slowed Saturday by enemy shelling and bad weather, field repojts said. South Vietnamese paratroopers were within three miles of the fallen provincial capital of Quang Tri, and a major battle was 'expected against North Viet "forces dug in on the 'southern outskirts of the city. Associated Press correspondent Holger Jensen reported from the front the advarice by 20,000 South Vietnamese troops was slowed by heavy Tains that flooded river fords and held up supply and ammunition vehicles. Brig. Gen Bui The Lan, the "marine commandant, said North Vietnamese shelling of the Marines eight mile front east of the city was the biggest obstacle his forces has faced so far.

Ty'cre was one attack in the rear of the northern advance, but it was an enemy shelling southwest of Hue and 30 miles south of the front. The South Vietnamese 1st division is on guard on the western approaches to Hue while the marines, paratroopers and armored units are pushing northward toward Quang Tri. The Saigon command claimed 450 enemy troops have been killed in the first three days of the four day counterofifensive and put its own losses as 36 killed and 148 wounded. The body of a dead woman was found but was no, The South Vietnamese, identified. command said government troops killed 24 enemy and discovered a 40,000 round munitions cache S3 miles northwest of Saigon and just inside Cambodia's Parrot's BealcT The enemy shelled An Loc with 350 rounds and then launched a ground attack on that provincial capital 60 miles north of Saigon.

South Vietnamese spokesmen said 86 aKii S3 "Vj. AWMhMP Av Ifc, 'iiirr ICELAND'S GUDMUDUR'THORARINSSON chess federation not budging' i 3 Americans and Swede Known Yacht Survivors BREST, France (AP) Three Americans and a Swede were the only known survivors of 11 persons aboard a yacht that sank early Saturday after colliding with a French ship, a port official here reported. Both vessels were attempting to help Sir Francis Chichester's racing yacht, Gipsy Moth in the Bay of Biscay. The American survivors of the yacht Lefteria were listed by French navy authorities as skipper Peter Gallagher, Phillip Bates and Paul Frismik kelsen. The Swede was identified as Erling Midlove.

Rsssaa U2 amWY mwtmwPw yrggw fSnr i i "TffPir ff 2,200 Miles to Go With only 2,200 miles left to paddle, Larry Capune, 29, of Balboa Island, strokes his way past Hull, Mass. on his way to what he estimates as a 30 miles per day, 70 day surfboard paddling trip from Nantucket Beach to Miami. He found no takers for a girl to drive his car overland the route, meeting him each night as he camcashore. Pilots Want 'Good' Skyjack News On LOS ANGELES (AP) The president of the Air Line Pilots Association urged tho news media Saturday to voluntanlyt play down stories on successful skyjarkings play up unsuccessful ones. "tp "I think if the press were to play down skyjackings which are successful and onlj play up those which are unsuc cessful, eventually the depraved mind that undertakes these things would get the idea that no one ever gets away with it." Donald" McBain said.

The United Airlines flight captain testified before a State Senate subcommittee on civil disorders holding a hearing into the problem of airline hijackings. McBain also said he thought the news media should stop reportmg hijackings in progress on a voluntary basis. He said he was worried because of the high rate of successful skj jacking attempts, and added, "there are enemy soldiers were killed several pilots. A broadcast North Vietnamese forces also asserted the Viet Cong claimed they shot down two F4 sank a U.S. cargo" ship off jets Saturday and captured Quang Tri, Tuesday.

4 Cyclists Charged In 'Shootout' DURHAM, NC. (AP) Four members of the Storm Troopers a Durham motorcycle club, were charged with murder Saturday in what police described as an ambush of a Florida based club, the' Pagans, on Interstate 85 Friday evening. Two Pagans were killed and six others, including two bystanders, were wounded in the shootout near an exit ramp five miles north of Durham. One of the wounded Pagans, Paula Roebuck said her club was heading north on I 85 for Pennsylvania. In her part of the caravan, two men were riding motorcycles and six others were riding, in a panel van About 60 miles farther on, she said, one of the Pagans riding a motorcycle pulled alongside the van and said "the Storm Troopers are coming They've got guns." "Then the shooting started and it didn't stop.

It sounded like machine gun fire. I got hit and passed out." Police identified the dead Pagans as Lance A. Burger, 32, and Donald T. Scroggs, both of Miami. TODAY UPI Ttlephoto still 117 hijackers roaming free in various parts of the earth McBain told the hearing that airlines no longer can maintain the responsibility for air security and that if the hijackings are to r)e stopped, they must be halted on the ground.

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