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WEDNESDAY, JULY 1372 PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS tnn rpa nn wwwG mm iiiier Mms imt attention in Washington which was sometimes aghast and often amused by Mrs. Mitchell's frankness. MRS. MITCHELL, 53, burst into prominence early in 1969, when she told an interviewer that anti-Vietnam war demonstrators looked like "Russian revolutionaries." She made a 2 A. M.

phone call to the Arkansas Gazette to blast Sen. J. William Fulbright a leading critic of the war. Martha had the nerve to say what she thought and called the shots as she saw them, sometimes outrageously. President Nixon was amused.

He felt she added a touch of liveliness, even glamor, to the staid stamp of his administration. She fell into a class with Henry. A. Kissinger as Nixon-style celebrity. Mail showered in and she developed a national following.

Some of her detractors starting called her "Moutha." THE WIVES of 6ther Cabinet members, who were under strong restraints, neither understood nor liked Martha's power. Mrs. Nixon and her daughters, Julie Eisenhower and Tricia Cox, defended her right to speak, but- did not approve of some of her fiery opinions. Although their husbands were close, Mrs. Nixon and Mrs.

Mitchell maintained a cool and detached relationship, although they spent many social hours together. With her dimpled smile and pictures easily made the front pages and the lead spots on the social pages. She began to feel her opinions, by now receiving wide attention, were worth something, as indeed they were. Continued on page 48 This is the first of two articles on outspoken Martha Mitchell, once the "darling" of the GOP. The icriter is Helen Thomas of United Press International's Wasldngton Bureau, the reporter who got those telephone calls in winch Mrs.

Mitchell disclosed she would leave her husband if he didn't quit politics. By HELEN THOMAS The telephone was both Martha Mitchell's trademark and her undoing as a superstar In a Republican administration with few glittering personalities. She was outspoken on topics from the Vietnam war to the Republicans to the Democrats to her husband. She said the unthinkable in a town where discretion and protocol act as effective gags for most people. "THE VIETNAM WAR is over" was one of her shockers.

As the wife of one Cabinet member, she said of another: "We're thinking of running (Treasury Secretary) John B. Con-nally for Pope." "Right on, Martha! Give 'em hell," President Nixon used to say when the wife of his attorney general, John N. Mitchell, teed off on the Democrats. Now, three years after her spectacular rise to become the most sought after woman in Washington, she and her husband are preparing for an eventual move back to New York and away from the limelight. Mitchell, who resigned as Attorney General to manage President Nixon's re-election campaign, has quit the latter post at his wife's insistence.

He will remain as an adviser, but it seems certain that he and his wife will not command the same ,4 t-v '-y jj i jr v' Unlfox Martha Mitchell and daughter. People Paper; People A Fischer Apologizes, But World Chess Ifa Co Still in Potsbf Mrs. Buck See Other Stories on Page 49 $125,000. Fischer was on the next plane to Reykjavik and arrived yesterday morning, The winner of the match would get' $150,000 and the loser $100,000. The start of the match was postponed a second time yesterday after Spassky, 35, said Fischer insulted him by refusing to show up to draw lots to see who got to make the first move.

He demanded Fischer apologize and said Fide must censor Fischer. EARLIER, the official Soviet news agency Tass criticized Fischer and said he and his backers planned to use a computer to try to win Spassky 's title. "It has been learned in journalist circles here that Fischer's patrons have worked out rather original playing tactics for the match in which they were not guided by chess interests," Tass said. REYKJAVIK, Iceland (UPI) American c1ks challenger Bobby Fischer apologized today for delaying the start of the world championship match with Russian Boris Spassky but a demand from the Soviet Chess Federation threatened to cancel the 24-game series. The Russian chess group cabled Dr.

Max Euvvc, president of the International Chess Federation (FIDE), demanding that Fischer be ordered to forfeit the first game because he did not abide by an Agreement that both players must show up within one hour of the scheduled game time. "IF THE RUSSIANS INSIST on this penalty, I believe the vvhole match is off," said Euwe. "Wo are sorry that the world championships were delayed," Fischer said. "The problems causing the delays were not with world champion Spassky, who I respect as a player and a man. "If grandmaster Spassky or the Soviet people were inconvenienced or discomforted, I am indeed unhappy, for I had not the slightest intention of this occurring." Officials hoped the twice-postponed tournament could get underway tomorrow but representatives of both Fischer and Spassky earlier broke off talks, casting doubts on the possibility the match would be held.

The championship was scheduled to start last Sunday, but Fischer, a 29-year-Dld chess genius from Brooklyn, failed to turn up, mostly because he wanted more money than the $125,000 purse put up by the organizers. All appeared saved when a British millionaire banker and chess fan dug into his own pocket to offer another Pearl Buck Improving in Hospital Prize-winning author Pearl S. Buck, 80, is improving but remains in the intensive care unit at the Rutland, Vt. Hospital for treatment of pleurisy. Winner of the Nobel and Pulitizer prizes, Miss Buck, who resides in nearby Danby, was admitted to the hospital Saturday.

Giraffes Riding High but Slow Some persons might be driven to drink while others may swear off the stuff completely after getting a look at the cargo Earl Tatum is trucking from Los Angeles to Atlanta, Ga. Tatum is zigzagging his way to Georgia, avoiding underpasses and quick stops with a truckload of giraffes whose heads tower 10 feet above the top of the vehicle. The long-necked beasts are getting new homes at the Lion Country Safari Park near Atlanta. Soviets Turn Out for the ith The fallout from the Nixon-Brezhnev summit talks was evident at the Independence Day Party yesterday in Moscow tossed by Ambassador and Mrs. Jacob D.

Beam. Several hundred Soviet cabinet members, scientists, writers, artists and journalists who in past years boycotted American receptions were on hand. Chichester Undergoing Tests After two weeks of battling illness and storms in the Atlantic, Sir Francis Chichester, 70, was back in Plymouth, England, today where he's undergoing medical checkups. Sir Francis, knighted in 1967 for sailing alone around the world, dropped out of the 3,000 mile Observer Transatlantic singlehanded race and reached home with Royal Navy help. Just Meat to Big Cats Today at a Gfanco Weather Today's Funny EXPELYnON SA BONE VOYAGE The Outlook Today Cloudy, Rain High-Low Today 70-60 The Outlook Tonight Mostly Cloudy The Outlook Tomorrow Mostly Cloudy Winds Easterly 10-20 MFJI Inside the News Amusemenfs Classified 54-63 Comics 50, 51, 53 Crossword 58 Dear Penny 51 Editorials 33 Sylvia Porter 43 Chuck Stone 10 Television 34, 36 Earl Wilson .47 Women's BREATHING INDEX Today's Forecast 1 Yesterday's Index I to 10.

Same month last year Index runs from 1. (clean)' to 10. month la.M year average H'. '2 High Low 9 63 74 Philadelphia Atlnnlic City Boston Chitaso Los Angeles Miami New Ortoans New York Pitsburh St. Louis Weather Condition Ptly Sunny Ptly Sunny Cool Clear Clear Warm Ptly Cloudy Cool Clear answer 5 S9 81 85 94 HA 75 He might be the highest paid circus performer in the world, but Ringling Bros, and Barnum Bailey animal trainer Gunther Gebel-Williams is just meat on the hoof to a couple of tigers.

He was training a new act in Houston Monday night involving two elephant and two' tigers. One df 'the tigers -waved at the $100,000 year star and 'Williams- ended aip in a local hospital for. treatr ment of leg wounds. 64 63 54 64 77 73 ts it i ti Si Cloudy, Rain Arti by, Helen Sneppard School Tidet Phijfl. fCaoeM Delaware fM AAA AVI tow 4.01 fM 1JM1 SUN ROSE SUN SET 78 Sah Francisco' 63 Washington '91.