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Editorial Daily Leader, Pontiac, 111. Page 2 July 14, '72 Fischer checkmates self We have seen over the past few days the creation of something new in chess, the Fischer gambit. This is where you threaten to hold your breath until you turn blue and-or pick up your chess beard and go home unless you can have your own way. A true inspiration to the youth of America, Bobby Fischer has shown us that these tactics work in this greed-smudged real world. Fischer's performance, the prelude to the world chess championship match in Iceland, should not have surprised us.

He has, after all, never said he was sensitive, poised, considerate, modest, generous, admirable or intelligent. He has said only (though many, many times) that he is ths best chess player around, in Brooklyn, the United States, the world and, presumably, the universe. Let us assume that he is right. The next question is, so what? Fischer seems to be operating under the belief that because we pay sir athletes and entertainers outrageously large sums of money, we should do the same for chess players. From his point of view this is reasonable, of course.

But from everybody else's it is super- arrogant nonsense. That we are foolish enough to sanction paying Tom Seaver $125,000 a year to throw baseballs is no justification for our being oolish enough to sanction paying Bobby Fischer $200,000 for shoving a bunch of toys around for a month. For one thing, there is the two-wrongs- don't-make-a-right theory. For another, there is the fact that chess is not, either historically or intrinsically, an interesting spectator sport Such vicarious enjoyment as chess games provide comes from leisurely study of the move-by-move account, not from watching Fischer knit his brow in thought or lick his chops in fiendish anticipation of crushing an opponent's ego. Maybe at some future time there will be enough fans around to support chess in the fashion to which Fischer would like to be accustomed.

But right now there are not. And no exploiting capitalist is getting rich on Fischer's talent. This makes it doubly unfortunate that London investment banker James D. Slater saw fit to add $125,000 to the world championship purse. For Fischer's threats to quit the match bordered on extortion and his bluff should have been called.

This would have been painful for Iceland -whose costly preparations for the match Fischer held hostage. But it would have put Fischer, a fatuous, graceless man, in his proper place, that of someone who happens to be a genius at a trivial pastime. Now, though, we have the confrontation. Fischer has at time tried to make his match with defending world champion Boris Spassky a Cold War kind of crusade, good old American versus godless Russian Communist. But he was not so dedicated to the crusade that he was willing to wage it for a mere $100,000.

He was not so proud that he would not apologize to the Russians to save the match and his money. And he was not smart enough to realize that if he had just quietly won the championship, he would have earned the respect and, probably, the financial rewards he demanded so prematurely. Go, Boris. By RALPH NOVAK Sullivan savs U.S., France to explore vast sea depths By WALTER SULLIVAN (C) New York Timet News Service LYONS, FRANCE France and the United States have agreed on a three-year plan for submarine exploration of the cavernous mid-Atlantic rift valleys almost a mile and a half beneath the ocean surface. It is a venture that conjures up images from Jules Yerne.

During the project, which involves 17 vessels and has many parallels to the Apollo program for lunar exploration, three deep- submergence vehicles two French and one American will make a minimum of 40 descents into the utter blackness of these canyons. Their mission is to seek out evidence for the volcanic activity that appears to be poshing apart the two sides of the Atlantic. The plan provides for sampling of the hot water from boiling geysers, if any are found, emplacement of earthquake detectors on the canyon floor 300 fathoms beneath the sea (almost a mile and a half) and extensive specimen collection. The crews, on some international dives, will seek out lava flows, volcanic cones, bright colored sulphur or metallic coatings on the sea floor and other evidence of eruption such as hollow lava tubes and giant caverns measureless to man, or at least to vehicles with limited maneuverability. The submersiWes will collect specimens from the full height of the canyon walls, which rise a mile or more in what appear to be a series of almost vertical steps.

Special remotely controlled drills, prying tools, hammers and sampling devices are being developed for this work. This will be the first time that human eyes have gated on what hms been described as the most extensive feature of the earth's surface --the midocean rift system. It is a network of giant cracks in the sea floor, often ten miles wide and two miles deep, that extends into all the oceans and is at least 49,000 miles long. These rift valleys, as a rule bisect the midocean ridges and presumably are formed by the slow pushing of the ocean floor away from those ridges. Monitoring of global earthquake activity from land stations has shown that shallow quakes occur with great frequency beneath the floors of these canyons, presumably as molten rock rises from deep in the earth.

In recent years evidence for the spreading of the sea floor away from active ridges has become strong. Itis believed that great plates of the earth's crust are being pushed apart along such ridges and that, as this occurs, molten rock rises from within the earth to fill the flap Where such impinge upon or oJ" new mountain ranges oTfaUnd arcs are formed. He.ce the nature oi activity along these rift valleys bears on the most fLdamental processes in Because visibility from the wUl be limited by the darkness and opacity the water, the craft will have to remain within aTew ySds of the surface under observation Along the survey routes, photographic and cameras will be in continuous with the TV images recorded on ac dive this film will be processed as rapidly as possible to use in planning the next descent. Training of French and American scientists for the dives is to begin inlceland this August. Iceland is in a sense an outcrop of the mid- AUantic ridge and probably displays some of the volcanic features to be expected along the ri seSfield trip is planned for the Afar region of Africa, bordering the Red Sea next winter This grim and arid region of intense volcanic, earthquake and rifting activity is believed to mark a new midocean ridge in the roject is an outgrowth of the 1970 Franco-American Agreement on Scientific Cooperation.

Oglivie and Walker seek governorship; Nowlan and Hartigan vie for identity The Cheering Section McGovern's advisers okay big donor techniques Editor's Note: Hi. Schwartz IH and Dick Barnes, two members of The AP Special Assignment Team, sat in this week on a strategy meeting called fay Sen. George McGovern's presidential campaign fund-raisers. Following is their report. By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MLAMI BEACH, Fla.

(AP) -Sen. George McGovern's financial advisers quietly are planning to raise $36.5 million for the presidential election campaign, depending in part on successful big-donor techniques perfected by Republican fund- raisers for President Nixon. Even before the South Dakotan had sewn up the Democratic presidential nomination, the money strategy for the fall campaign had been outlined to about 35 select McGovern fund- raisers. The private meeting was held this week one floor above the candidate's command complex in the Doral Hotel. That session alone reportedly netted $1.3 million from its well-heeled participants.

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themselves attended. More than 80 per cent of McGovern's money since he announced for the presidency 18 months ago has come from thousands of small contributors, federal records show. But McGovern's people hope to raise $15 million or nearly half of their projected campaign budget in the category known to both parties as special gifts. This generally means contributions of $5,000 or more. Miles Rubin, a New York lawyer heading the special-gifts efforts, told the finance committee meeting: "Sen.

McGovern now realizes the vital need to move into the special-gifts area." Increasing public awareness of campaign finance has brought mounting criticism of dependence on large contributors. "He didn't fully realize it until a week ago when Morris and Henry talked with him and explained the full costs of a national campaign," Rubin confided to the meeting. Morris is Morris Dees, a Montgomery, lawyer who raised $4 million in small contributions for McGovern's pre- convention campaign. Henry is Henry Kimelman, a Virgin Islands importer and campaign finance manager as well as the second-largest campaign contributor to date. As outlined, McGovern's financial blueprint is to raise the $36.5 million from these sources: million from special gifts and loans.

million from direct mail and television appeals. million from special events such as concerts. million from national and state committees and dinners. million from a special young-people's effort, million from industry. By MICHAEL ROBINSON Associated Press Writer SPRINGFIELD, 111.

(AP) -While Richard B. Ogilvie and Daniel J. Walker battle to make their views known in the race for the governorship, their running mates struggle to make their names known. "The real issue," says James Nowlan, Republican candidate for lieutenant governor, is: "Who am Neil Hartigan, his Democratic adversary, is no better known. Actually, there is some question about whether voters really need to know anything about Nowlan and Hartigan.

No one doubts that the only serious contest is between Ogilvie and Walker. And, by law, the candidates for governor and lieutenant governor run as a team. Thus, Nowlan and Hartigan are unlikely to figure heavily in the campaign unless one of them is-made to an, ogre That turn of events'is unlikely. Both men were handpicked by party elders for their wholesome, unsullied images. Hartigan, clear-eyed with a thatch of flaming red hair and a bone-pulverizing handshake, is the type of clear-cut, young Irish lawyer that has been a fixture in Chicago Democratic circles for decades.

Nowlan, a state representative from rural Toulon, is often regarded as a political ingenue. "Jim Nowlan knows as much about politics as that couch you're sitting on," cracks a statehouse oldtimer. But a running mate free from the taint of backroom wheeling and dealing is just what Ogilvie wants this year. Another factor that sold party leaders on Nowlan and Hartigan is their comparative youth. Nowlan is 30, and Hartigan is 34.

And, while it remains to be seen if either man has much political sex appeal, they both have sectional appeal. ent. While not known for any excess of emotionalism, Hartigan can let his feelings show. At Simon's concession speech the day after Walker defeated him, Hartigan's voiced quivered and tears welled in his eyes. Nowland's background as a weekly-newspaper editor and political-science teacher have given him strong convictions, though: and he takes unabashed pride in his authorship of tax-relief bills and strip-mine- reclamation measures.

Hartigan, older and more experienced politically, is an attorney for the Chicago Park District and Democratic committeeman of the city's North wide 49th Ward. While the two men fight to make their names known, an unresolved question is: What will the winner do once he gets elected? Under the new Constitution, the lieutenant governor no longer will preside in the state Senate. Stripped of these gavel-banging duties, the lieutenant governor's office becomes as much decorative as anything else. While they may pose a problem later right now the candidates are'just concentrating on name recognition. Neil Hartigan Chicagoan Hartigan was picked to balance a ticket that Democratic elders thought would be led by downstater Paul Simon.

Ogilvie, whose strength always has been in the believes that Nowlan will capture the hearts of small town dwellers. In style, the two are differ- JamesD. Nowlan Nowland, at times, can sound a bit patrician. He once told a group of reporters that one of his House collegues, Rep. Thomas J.

Hanahan, D-MeHenry, is "handsome in a sort of crude, plebeian way." Such judgments have not made him part of the House inner dub. This may be one reason why John Dailey, one of Ogilvie's wise young men, frequently is at Nowlan'd elbow to furnish advice. story identified the Republican candidate as "James Toulon of Nowlan." Meanwhile, the other clean- cut man who wanted to be lieutenant governor, Mayor Neal Eckert of Carbondale, still is struggling to pay off a campaign debt of several thousand dollars. Privately, at least three of bis former workers described him as bitter toward Walker, who encouraged Eckert to enter the Democratic primary and then-- in their eyes-- failed to help him get his campaigning off the launching pad. from merchandiz- ing such items as T-shirts.

The industry effort is being headed by Donald A. Petrie, former head of Avis Rent-a-Car who is now a partner with the investment banking firm of Lazard, Fres Co. "We want to do what Maurice Stans has done for the Republicans," Rubin told the finance meeting. Stans, financial chairman of Nixon's re-election effort and a former secretary of commerce, raised more than $20 million for Nixon's 1968 campaign. There have been some predictions McGovern would not be able to raise money from the wealthy because of his tax proposals.

But Kimelman and Rubin displayed no such apprehension. The $36.5 million compares with what Stans has said would be a $30-million Republican budget, of which more than $10 million has been raised so far, according to public records. Kimelman, however, said, "I think the Republicans will spend $55 million to $70 million." Not big tippers MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) -To the cabbies and bellhops, there's no question about it -Democrats just don't spread around the cash that Republicans do. "Just between you and me, lady, Republicans are much bigger spenders," cabbie William Previs said recently to a questioner.

"You know, some have it and some don't." Two veteran bellhops at the Fountainebleau Hotel, Democratic headquarters, agree. Democrats aren't "high-rollers," they said, but they're not the worst tippers. "Doctors are the worst tippers and teachers are second," one said. New theory offered on political shootings By C. G.

McDANIEL AP Science Writer CHICAGO (AP) The behavior which makes politicians successful may also be the behavior which makes them the target of assassins, a psychiatrist suggests. It often is difficult to determine what is courageous and what is foolhardy in political leaders' activities, said the psychiatrist, Dr. David A. Rothstein, who has studied assassinations for a number of years. There is a dilemma for the politician, he said in an interview, because he must appear publicly and show qualities of leadership to be successful.

At the same time, these qualities attract assassins. "Maybe risk-taking is inherent in people who want to be in that kind of position," Rothstein said. The psychiatrist served as a consultant to the Warren commission, which investigated the assassination of PresidentJohn F. Kennedy, and the Eisenhower commission, which studied causes and prevention of violence. He has a private practice in Chicago and is an attending psychiatrist at Michael Reese Medical Center.

He formerly was staff psychiatrist at the federal prison hi Springfield, where he studied several prisoners who had threatened the lives of presidents. Rothstein said he does not think the assassinations in the United States are political but rather assassinations of political figures. The political figure, with his strong, dominating personality, reminds the would-be assassin of his mother, he said, and rouses feelings of ambivalence. That is, feelings of love and hate exist together. The political figure has, in too mind of the attackers, failed to meet his needs, just as the mother has failed to meet his needs, the psychiatrist explained.

By killing the political figure, the assassin symbolically rids himself of his mother and all his failures and frustrations. A common trait Rothstein has found in would-be assassins and in studies of those who tried it or accomplished it is a dominating mother and poor relationships with women. The psychiatrist has written that certain political leaders display what might be viewed as "unconscious fantasies of omnipotence or counterphobic elements aimed at mastering man's mortality." That is, they appear to think they are all-powerful or do the things they are afraid of doing in order to master their fear of them, as a child might go into a dark room to overcome his fear of the dark. Such activities, he added, "could inadvertently elicit the very fate which they seek to master." He continued: "In one way, this could be viewed as evidence for an unrealistic belief in their own indestructibility, which would allow them to take unwarranted risks, unwarranted because the leaders remain, after all, mortal men. "It even appears in some cases as if there may be a tendency to take a risk for the sake of the risk--to challenge or dare death--combined with an air of fatalism.

All of this would both mask and reveal an underlying fascination with death." He cites the dangerously fast driving of Presidents Kennedy and Franklin D. Roosevelt and the daring athletic feats of the iate Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. He also cites some of the activities of President Nixon, such as his mounting the top of a car and giving the peace.sign to enrage a crowd of demonstrators at San Jose, while vice president.

Even Abraham Lincoln returned to the White House on several occasions with bullet holes in his hat after unescorted rides at night. Such activities as those of Winston Churchill who, as prime minister of Great Britain during World War II, crossed an ocean infested with enemy submarines engender confidence and courage among the people, Rothstein points out. "A more prudent man might have stayed in safety," he wrote. "Perhaps it took someone with an unrealistic faith in his own indestructibility to do this." "Yet," he added, "It was no doubt this very faith in ultimate success which made him a great leader, rallied public support, morale and enthusiasm and gave the British people the faith in themselves to fight on." Rothstein said that, while it is necessary to reassure the public after catastrophic events, he thinks President Nixon "went a little far" in walking into crowds following the attempt on the Me of Gov. George C.

Wallace of Alabama at a political rally in May. The psychiatrist said he hopes it will not become necessary for political candidates to conduct their campaigns solely over television because personal contact is important. He noted that, when Juan Bosch responded to the possibility of assassination during an election campaign in the Dominican Republic by refusing to appear in public, Bosch unexpectedly lost the election. at the Democratic Convention "Somehow, he don't look as tall as he did six months.