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Page 4 A I Wednesday, July II, mi Page of Opinion Editorials Comment Bobby Fischer Keeps Chess World Jumping AFTER MONTHS of moves by Bobby Fischer of the United States and Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union over where, when and how to hold a chess match--as well as the how much the match itself could be an anticlimax. But we doubt it. If he has done nothing else, Bobby Fischer has done more for chess than any man since Lewis Carroll. Customarily a chess match raises as. much popular interest in this country as the annual meeting of beekeepers or a seminar on the teaching of Esperanto to the Incas.

This time there is a difference, and mostly it's been Bobby. The Russians deserve some credit. For years the Soviets haven't just held the title; they've owned it. Until Bobby Fischer came along a world chess match was truly a case of Russian roulette. But this time Fischer stole the headlines before the sedentary match got under way.

Take his insistence on money. Americans have built a reputation for the crass, a brash love for cash. That's what Bobby Fischer did. He acted so American, Spassky was in there trying, but his nyet had little bite to it. He couldn't engage in a a i asking Moscow's permission.

The way he walked out of the first scheduled meeting resembled a poor road version of the act Andrei Gromyko used to stage so regularly in the United Nations. But the way the two were checking each, other itseemed unlikely they would ever be mated. Compounding their cold war was that their chosen arena was Iceland. Chess players are like that. Olympians choose places like Tokyo and Munich, regular tourist stops, but the chess federation only takes Iceland when it cannot get Bulgaria.

The self-effacement of the game may be summed up by the knowledge that the head of the international federation is a man named Euwe. It's quite possible that hate him as you will chess needs a. Bobby Fischer and his emphasis on "Me!" Certainly it's received more attention this year than ever in memory. Fischer's hate could be bait UNITED STATES Ambassador George Bush was playing well within the rules of the game when he called upon the United Nations to improve its management and correct wasteful use of manpower and money. He is only the most recent of many well informed observers to focus attention on the U.JsVs management deficiencies.

Few would quarrel with Bush's judgement that there is "great need throughout the system for improved management, to prune out obsolete and unproductive activities and unproductive staff and to provide central executive leadership to compensate for disarray in some of the governing bodies" of the organization. Bush also was right to tell his colleagues that the United States "cannot be indifferent" to the present situation, particularly in view of the fact that our contribution exceeds 30 per cent of the U.N.'s total budget. It also follows that our government is justified in seeking to cut its share from the present figure to 25 per cent. The United States pays a-very large proportion of the total U.N. Budget.

And the question of whether we are getting our dollar's worth should be closely examined. While the cause of internation cooperation would be best served by all nation's paying their fair share of the United Nations operation, it seems unlikely that this is going to come about. Hence, it is completely understandable that Ambassador Bush should propose that the United States quit footing the bulk of the bills for others. Perhaps such a reduction would serve to bring about management reforms so the U.N. wouldn't be quite so financially dependent on the U.S.

Inquiring Reporter TODAY'S QUESTION: Do you think George McGovern can defeat President Nixon in Texas? MRS. 0. A. BARTON housewife: He certainly cannot. He belter not! MRS.

WM. G. BEAVERS, housewife: Probably so. Mainly because the South has Democrats than Republicans and I feel the Democrats will stand behind McGovern. MRS.

Y. S. TARRANT, housewife: Never. E. C.

BECK, garage owner: No, I don't. I don't think he has a chance, he's too liberal. MRS. WILLIE C. BRUCE, housewife: No.

I don't think he's strong enough here. SUE REED, secretary: No. I think he's too liberal for the Texans. HILL HERR, service station manager: No. McGovern's dove policies will defeat htm in Texas.

MRS. CLIFTON SHAW, teacher: No. Texas is more conservative than McGovern's plat- I feel Nixon's trips to China, etc. have paid off politically too well to be forgotten, now. Also, Connally's opinion of McGovern will prove to be a big factor in the Democrats' choice.

(jAVUi Sign Of Peace? Education For Careers New System WASHINGTON (AP) Americans could work toward finding or changing their careers from a few beyond the cradle to just short of the grave under a program being put together by some states and the federal government. If all works out well, it means that school children will have a fairly good idea of what they want to do in life by the time they're in their teens. It also means that young adults, people automated out of their current job or the retired will be able to return to an educational institution, perhaps to change their entire direction in the world of work. U.S. Education Commissioner Sidney P.

Martand Jr. said career education would eliminate the artificial separation between things academic and things vocational. "The student," said Marland, "would be equipped occupationally, academically and emotionally to spin off from the system at whatever age he chooses--whether at age 16 as a craftsman apprentice or age 30 as a surgeon or age 60 as a newly trained practical nurse." Career education should not, officials say, be confused with vocational education, which is not as broad. Under the career education program, children entering kindergarten will be exposed to the world of work under a "career awareness" program that would continue through the sixth grade. The government has broken 20,000 jobs into 15 job clusters, each under a general heading such as the "world of manufacturing" or the "world of construction." During those first years of school, each student should find something in two or three clusters that interests him or her.

In junior 7 through 9, they will explore these careers in depth. For instance, a child might be interested in the "world of deciding whether to be an architect, engineer or skilled craftsman would involve more investigation, including field trips to talk to people on the job. Students planning profes sional careers would follow a high school curriculum that would prepare them for college but which also would give them some work experience. Students planning to work after high school would receive additional work experience while in school. All students would still get preparation in the basic subjects: English, mathematics, science and the fine arts, sometimes taught in a way helpful for their particular careers.

Excitement over the career education concept, said one federal official, is the greatest he has ever witnessed. 1 Vl've never seen so little federal money trigger so much response," said Dr. Sidney C. High, who supervises the U.S. Office of Education mini-model career education programs in 50 states.

A spokesman said that the federal government spent $114 million in Fiscal 1972 under the general heading of career education and expenditures of $168 million are projected in Fiscal 1973. The federal program is broken up into small model projects, which High, administers, and four major career models: School-based, Employer-based, Home-based and-Residential. These models cost a little over $20 million in Fiscal 1972 and are designed'to develop a solution to foe problem of XI million leaving formal education -systems each year without job preparation. The Center for Vocational and Technical Education of Ohio State University is administering the school- based model, withj'help from six" schooldistrictftjacross the country. Each is developing material for 15 job clusters.

The State facility million during the past year for administering the program. The other models: Employer based: Financed at $2 million, it will establish an employer-operated education model for students aged 13-18. Ifcfwill integrate academic, general and vocational curricula. Educational regional laboratories in Philadelphia and Berkeley, have been funded. 'Gef Him A Shave And Haircut--TAen Bring 'to tatf Holmes Alexander The Lighter Side Alas, Poor Humphrey By DICK WEST WASHINGTON (UPI) "It wasn't Shakespeare, that's for sure," said actress Shirley MacLaine after George McGovern's acceptance speech.

"But," she added, "we don't need Shakespeare right now." To the contrary. With the party split the way it is, the Democrats need Shakespeare more than ever. I've been pouring over the Immortal Bard's works to determine" his views on party harmony and I am convinced he has the right formula for reuniting the Democrats. As we shall see in the following interview: Q. Mr.

Shakespeare, what advice would you give Senator McGovern as he goes about trying to heal wounds opened at Miami Beach? A. "Be moderate. Be moderate. Cherish those hearts that hate thee. In thy right hand carry gentle peace.

to silence envious tongues. Patch grief with proverbs. Pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh at gDded butterflies." Q. "I'm sure George Meany and Mayor Daley would love that, sir, particularly the part about butterflies. But do you think a reconciliation is possible? A.

"Some griefs are med'cinable. What private griefs they have, alas, I know not." Q. What happened to Meany, Daley and other members of the Old Guard at the convention? "Let us sit upon the ground and tell sad stories of the death of kings. Machinations, hollowness, treachery and all ruinous disorders. Paddling palms and pinching fingers." Q.

Do yoil think the McGovern delegates were ingrates not to seat Daley all he had done for the party? A. "The painful warrior famoused for fight, after a thousand victories, once foiled, is from the books of honour razed." Q. How is Daley reacting to the setback? A. "He receives comfort like cold porridge. A man whom fortune hath cruelly scratched.

the fierce wretchedness that glory brings us. Is't possible that so short -a time can alter the condition of a man?" Q. Why was the Old Guard so strongly opposed to McGovern? A. "He capers, he dances, he has the eyes of youth. Crabbed age and youth cannot live together." Q.

What should McGovern tell his young campaign workers to help beat Nixon in November? A. "Bid them wash their faces, and keep their teeth clean." Trade Talks May Be Leading To Something By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst Notable in U.S. business dealings with both the Soviet- Union and China is the expectation of a fairly early end to the war in Vietnam. Obviously the United States could not issue to the Boeing company a license to sell to Oliina $150 million in 707 jet transports if it believed they could be used to deliver war supplies to North Vietnam against U.S. and allied forces there.

The same, is true of negotiations soon to be resumed in Moscow looking toward new trade agreements with the Soviet Union: Involved Is favored nation treatment for the entry of Soviet goods into the United States and extension of credits to the Soviet Union. Neither would be likely to win approval of Congress if the question of Soviet aid to North Vietnam still stood between the two governments. It also could be expected that maritime unions quickly would cancel their agreement to load Soviet or thirdcountry flag A lesser but important issue is the settlement of the Soviet Union's lenHease debt to the United States left over from World War II. From an original figure of $10.8 billion, the total has been scaled down to $800 million asked by the United States and $300 million offered by-the Soviet Union. A settlement of this issue is another item expected to emerge from the Moscow 'negotiations to be conducted by U.S.

Commerce Secretary Peter G. Peterson. The above does not take into consideration two other important elements, One is the fact that Soviet agreement to buy $750 million worth of American grains to the next three years open up a market for American surpluses did not exist before. It is expected that most of the Soviet purchases will be in feed grains and most of that in corn. It will be fed to livestock to help the Russians, meet a- growing consumer demand for meat.

A huge American com crop in 1971 left the United States with a 600 million bushel surplus over what could be used. An important percentage of this will now be 1 sold to the Soviets at current market prices. Not only do the Russian purchases eat into grain 'surpluses and help ease the U.S. imbalance in world trade', an important side effect is the new jobs' to be created. Peterson estimated that up to 37,500 non-farm jobs could be created in the next three years.

A second consideration is the fact that the grain deal is only one facet of a vast overall increase in two-way trade hoped for by both sides. One important example is the fact the U.S. government has licensed American firms to bid on a billion dollars worth of equipment to go into Russia's huge Kama River truck building project 600 miles east of Moscow. Important suggestions also have come from the Russians. One is a large passenger car' plant for which the United States would supply the equip- 'ment.

Repayment would be made in finished cars that the United States could seel in Europe. Another suggested joint venture would involve the sale of Soviet natural gas to both East and West coasts of the United States. And that's only the beginning. O'Brien Held Firm Control Of Convention Time was when the gavel swung the chairman. But at the Democratic Convention, Chairman Larry O'Brien was complete master of the big stick.

Memory goes back to Chicago '68 with Chairman Carl Albert, closer to being a five-footer than proving himself no match for the mace in his hand. He was outshouted, outsmarted, and all but undone by the maddened, frightened, frustrated Democrats of that stockyard melee. Older memories call up the bald, florid, arrogantly unfair Chairman Sam Rayburn punding down Democratic upstarts who were trying for recognition, going over-their maverick heads to recognize the boys of the party's'innermost back, rooms. O'BRIEN WAS ALL but flawless. He banged for order before it was too late.

He said "Please. Please." In the tone of a proctor imploring high school students to quit behaving like junior graders. "Some of you are ignoring Mrs. Harris," he chided delegates who were jabbering in the aisles while the Credentials Chairman was explaining important procedures- He did not pull his rank on petty violations, as when speakers ran a few minutes overtime. But he spurred the Convention up against the.bit and finished the credentials session in 10 hours, although it was officially estimated to run twice that length.

He carried a strong arm inside a well-tailored sleeve. The first of the un-bossed Democratic Conventions was possibly the most monitored. When the Kennedys in Los Angeles of 1960 first introduced a field telephone system on the floor, tied into a central, command post, the purpose was to lead the troops to a victory for JFK. The GoJdwater forces in '64 at San Francisco did the same for their nominee. But the wiring of the recent Convention was to stabilize the Convention itself, and O'Brien's intelligence staff was never taken by surprise.

You could call it surveillance by preemptive overkill. OUTSIDE THE HALL, the same tactics of security by smotheration reduced threats to the status of mere nuisances. The elements of disruption were there, though not as numerous as in Chicago of four years ago, and they were never allowed to unite long enough to ignite. Yippics, zippies and crazies, Jesus people and poor people, were the shut-outs of the season. They marched forlornly around the perimeter of the iron-link fence, and occasionally made an abortive foray.

Flying squads of riot-sticked cops moved into position inside the barricade, ready to reinforce their buddies on the outside. The defensive peace keepers always were there fustest with the mostest. Two spirits, neither belonging to the Convention, seemed to brood nonetheless. The problem of violence containment was the same that Mayor Daley faced in Chicago, but the Daley methods were refined by experience and preparation. The other' spirit was that of Richard Nixon, who somehow has worked a nationwide winding down of violence.

But it was O'Brien's Convention all the way. He was the first 20th century man to preside over the assembled party, and he succeeded well by recognizing the human realities, The troublemakers outside the fence were treated as irreconcilables who came to tnake trouble, and not as Les Miserables with answerable grievances. IF O'BRIEN SHOULD turn up in some future administration, it could well be in the role of the late J. Edgar Hoover, or in the guise of a Democratic John Mitchell. The stamp of the sentimental permissivist, which has become the hallmark of his party, missed Larry O'Brien.

will not do to say that the delegates and candidates under his goverance were tamer or nobler than Democrats past. The several Maelstroms on the floor showed treacherous tides, but he steered clear with a steady hand. The seekers of the nomination wheeled-and-dealed, choosing expediency and junking their ideals with familiar regularity. The sunken-faced Humphrey and the gaunt Muskie are, if anything, more bitter against McGovern than Convention also-rans of old. O'Brien did not come with better material, but he set better standards for the party as his opening address showed.

It's doubtful if this party has ever before been warned against "excessive pride in the past," which has traditionally been in boastful recital of great names and feats. It was a unique experience to hear a Democratic Convention sparked with additional warnings against promising much and delivering little. Whatever else the Democrats have produced, they, found a man to match the mighty gavel..