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2A Fort Lauderdale News, Thursday, July 1972 Fischer To Walk If Cameras Roll McGovern Eyes Mail Campaign For $25 Million i Unitad Prill Inttrnitiwul MIAMI BEACH Sen. George McGovern is expected to launch soon a bold attempt to-' raise $25 million by direct mail from rank-and-file Americans to finance his campaign against President Richard Nixon. Facing the prospect that Democratic "fat a and labor unions will shut their purses to him, he is making Richard Stein, a lawyer for the promoter who bought the TV and film rights, Chester Fox, said he was up all night with Fischer's second, the Rev. William Lombardy, and Fred Cramer of the U.S. Chess Federation; Stein said that at one point Fischer walked in on the meeting, listened for a few minutes and then in a few sentences indicated he was adamant about expelling the cameras.

Then he went to bed. In agreement with Lombardy and Cramer, Stein wrote Fischer a letter at 5 o'clock this morning appealing to the challenger t6 accept the presence of the cameras and go on playing. "I hope the letter will move him." Stein, said. Schmid said he was prepared to invoke two rules of the match against Fischer. MAY INVOKE RULES Rule 17 prohibits in the name of "the highest principles of sportsmanship" that either player "district or annoy his opponent." Rule 21 allows the taking of pictures during the match by official photographers as long as the cameras are "neither visible nor audible." The camera Fischer objected to was officially sanctioned.

With a maximum of 23 more games to be played, Robert. Byrne, the second-ranking U.S.' grandmaster, said Fischer's loss "isn't necessarily all that significant. Either of these players can come back and A victory yields one point, a draw half a point and after yesterday's match Spassky needed 11 more points in the game series to retain his title. The Associated Press ii. REYKJAVIK, Iceland Bobby Fischer today was reported threatening to break off his world championship chess match with Boris Spassky unless all movie cameras are removed from the playing hall.

"It's quite serious. He may not play at all," said a member of Fischer's entourage who asked not to be identified. 1 Fischer was scheduled to meet the world champion from the Soviet Union later today at 1 p.m. EDT for the second game of their 24-game match. The American challenger lost the first game last night.

30-MINUTE WALKOUT Fischer staged a 30-minute walkout shortly after the play began yesterday, complaining that a movie camera 150 feet away was making him nervous. The camera was hardly visible in the dimness outside the lighted players' circle, and it could not be heard by Fischer, but aides said the knowledge of its presence unnerved him. Chief referee Lothar Schmid of West Germany, who makes the decisions on all contested points in connection with the match, told Fischer during his walkout there was nothing he could do about the camera. Film and television rights for the match have been sold to an American promoter, and Fischer and Spassky are to get a share of the proceeds, estimated at a minimum of $27,500 each. "It's up to Lothar Schmid whether Bobby plays," one of Fischer's advisers said today.

Contacted at his hotel, Schmid said; "There will be a match tonight. If Fischer doesn't appear, he will take the consequences." A member of Fischer's camp said" the "legal aspects are being studied." tentative plans a Mc- 4 Govern Million Member Club that will provide the financial underpinnings for his campaign. The idea is to flood the mails with letters to individuals asking for help in his struggle to achieve fundamental change in the U.S. economy and foreign policy. McGovern has used the direct mail technique successfully in his 16-month cam AP Wlrepheto BOBBY FISCHER PONDERS MOVE before dropping game to Boris Spassky Belfast Violence Kills Truce Offer Is Studied ports -to the American people on its progress.

The plan does not rule out the according to McGovern's advisers, that big labor and big business eventually; will open their pocket-books. McGovern is said to be earnestly trying to close the breach with AFL-CIO Pres-' ident George Meany and other labor leaders who engineered the. abortive "Stop McGovern" movement at the convention. But labor has shown little warmth so far for his candidacy, apparently because of his long battle against the Vietnam War and his foreign policy ideas. In addition, there is some fear among Democrats that the traditional fund-raising dinners for the campaign may be intimate affairs this year.

Industry leaders and wealthy Democrats who usually buy huge blocks of tickets may be reluctant because of McGovern's tax reform plans and his call for the redistribution of income from the wealthy to the poor. McGovern is one of the few candidates for national office who has relied on direct mail for the bread-and-butter of his campaign. COSTLY TECHNIQUE The technique had been regarded by most presidential contenders as prohibitively costly, since the rate of return is so low. But McGovern was successful in the preconvention effort because he had a ready-made constituency of war critics and liberals that read his letters and returned cash. The project's success can be traced to Morris Dees, a brilliant 35-year-old lawyer from Montgomery, Ala.

McGovern met Dees by accident during a speaking appearance in Indiana late in 1970 and found out that Dees had been in the mail order business, starting his' own company when he was still a college student. He asked Dees for his advice on announcing his candidacy for president in mass-mailed letter to American citizens. Dees suggested that when he did that, he also stick in an envelope for campaign contributions to pay the cost of the mailing. The two men hit it off, and eventually Dees found himself on McGovern's staff managing the direct mail effort. a "blatant liar" in saying the provisionals broke the truce in an outbreak of shooting ber tween them and British forces Sunday in a Belfast housing at Twomey said "the troops fired first.

British officials said White- i unitrt pr munutioiui fast, said yesterday the provi-BELFAST Eight persons, sibnals would be willing to ne-including a. retarded 15-year- gotiate.fcnew'cease-fite with old Catholic boy shot in his WjUianShitelaWi secretary bed, died in continuing vio- of state for Northern Ireland, lence yesterday and today in providing British forces prom-one of the bloodiest 24 -hour ise to honor the truce. (' I I a. twu f.j XU: "Vtl I 5 "He would have to give us law was studying the strong guarantees, witnessed offer "with caution." by neutral observers, that he in the capital's Catholic Old would be prepared to honor I park Road District, four gun-his word," Twomey told a I men burst into the home of news conference in the Catho- Sally McLenaghan, a Catholic lic Andersonstpwn District. widow, shot her in the leg and '-'The British arm.

then shot her son David periods since a two-week cease-fire ended Sunday. The deaths boosted the fatality toll in almost three years of violence in Northern Ireland to 429. British officials studied a new truce offer from the Irish, Republican Army (IRA); Seamus Twomey, chief of the 1KA Provisional wing in Bel- Court Orders Sanity Test For Lod Massacre Suspect as he lay in bed sleeping, the Armv said. Police said the boy had a mental age of four. HOODED BODY In the i city's Catholic Bally-; murphy area police found the hooded body of an unidentified man of about 25 floating in a stream.

In Portadown, 1 25 miles southwest of Belfast, fL nnnnfrnt. Dn.il QanfttA 0 I Was killed by a sniper." Later two unidentified men were shot dead in a pub in Portadown frequented mainly by Catholics, police said. A 35-year-old man found a 1 today with gunshot wounds in the chest died later in a hospital. In the period's other fatali ties, two British soldiers died early today after they were hit by sniper fire last night in. the Catholic Lower Falls area of Belfast, the Army said.

Eight soldiers were injured, three seriously, when a landmine blasted their truck near Keady, County Armagh, near the Irish Republic border. Par Cloudy Tin Associated Prist LOD, Israel An Israeli military court today ordered a sanity hearing for Kozo Oka-moto after he admitted full responsibility for the people he killed irt the Tel Aviv airport massacre, claimed he is a professional soldier in the Red Army of Japanese radicals and warned that the organization "will slay anyone who stands on the side of the bourgeoisie." "Ours is world revolution," he said, his face impassive. "The revolutionary war will carry on We must establish worldwide proletarian rule." 0 FLOOR PICNIC With the Democratic national convention heading into the home stretch, a lot of the delegates have found that the late hours and long sessions are no picnic. But not so for Margaret Meltzer, left, and Willie M. Hill, both of Fort Lauderdale.

With Sylvester Adair, standing, of Homestead overlooking, the ladies indulge in a snack of fried chicken. Pall Hangs Over Local paign for the party nomination, collecting $4.5 million from 160,000 Americans. The effort, according to his finance officials, paid 75 per cent of the costs of his campaign. -But the MMM Club plan will be a far broader and more sophisticated effort for contributions from the man on the street. It will be accompanied by intensive newspaper and broadcast advertising with the double purpose of exposing the senator to the public and asking citizens at the same time to send in their loose change.

TELEVISED REPORTS The hope is to collect an average $25 contribution from at least one million Americans. McGovern plans to make periodic televised re- 2 Hijackers Hold Plane Continued from Page One) after getting the ransom at Oklahoma City's Will Rogers World Airport this morning, Fisher had boarded the Dallas-bound flight there and took over the aircraft about a half Hour after it was in the air, ordering it to return to the airport. He demanded the rhoney in $100 bills and a parachute, released the passengers and then ordered the plane to take off again. Crew members said Fisher ordered the pilot to several sites in Oklahoma City while apparently pondering a parachute escape, but finally decided against jumping and surrendered. The plane returned to the airport where FBI agents took Fisher off in handcuffs.

Arnold C. Larson, special agent charge of the FBI in Oklahoma City said Fisher would be charged with air piracy. One passenger, John Clark, of Dallas, said no metal detector was used to check passengers boarding the flight in Oklahoma City. Viet Talks Resumed In Paris (Continued from Page One) preliminary questions about our proposals you may wish to present We are also entirely willing to go into any other matter you may wish A) put forward." He called for "a serious and systematic dialogue on matters of substance" as "the way to make progress here." Tho was in Peking yesterday and held a "very friendly and cordial" conversation with Premier En-lai, Radio Peking reported. The long series of secret, talks between Kissinger and Tho have covered a broad range of issues but have not produced any significant change in the conflicting negotiating positions.

Washington has always preferred private talks, contending that the Communists used the semipublic sessions only as propaganda platforms. But North Vietnam in the past has refused to participate in secret talks unless the regular weekly sessions were also being held. Kissinger and Tho last met May 2. Two days later the United States suspended the semipublic talks indefinitely, and the U. S.

delegation chief, Porter, told the Communist "we will resume whenever you indicate you are seriously interested in the negotiation of matters of substance or when we believe discussions would be useful." AP Wircphate Demos chooses a conservative or a liberal like himself. I'm personally holding out hopes for Scoop In South Broward, Pembroke Pines Mayor Charles Boyd said he was "going to be pretty busy with my own campaign, but as a Muskie supporter in the past will support McGovern as the Democratic nominee." McGovern, as the nominee of the party, will also get support from Democrat Jim Mulligan, 6740 NW 26 Sunrise: "But I don't like him at all. I'd much rather have a conservative candidate." Wilton Manors Mayor Jerry (Continued on Page 3A, Col. 1) NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE, I It 1 Bam ter what he does," she said. Added Roy Marler of Mir-mar: "I'm still with George Wallace, third party or any way he wants to go.

If he wants to bolt, I'll go with him." Marler called Wallace "the most influential man in politics today," and said of McGovern, "I don't agree with his socialist views. They are the same views as those of the Communist party." Wheeler said he believed many Democrats were wait-, ing for the selection of the vice-presidential nominee: "It will make a great difference in the vote in this country whether George McGovern "The nomination means a third party," Mrs. Julia Miller of Fort Lauderdale declared flatly. She voted for Wallace in the 1968 election, and although she was not a member of Wallace's American Independent party, she now says she'll join it "if necessary." "The Democratic party has left us," she declared. "Wallace stands for what the Democratic party used to mean to us.

The new Democratic party ought to label itself Mrs. Willie M. Hill, another Fort Lauderdale delegate, joined in. "I'll 1 1 him (Wallace) all the way, no mat (Continued from Page One) 1960, "and we found that Democrats on the local scene who were not elected simply did not get out among the people campaigning enough." Registered Democrats who were polled, however, expressed the sentiments nf John Swanik of 2780 SE 14th Pompano Beach: "I'm voting for Nixon." Local Democratic headquarters said today they have had many calls pledging support, but have had "some" complaints that McGovern was not the man to head the Democratic Party or to be elected president. 1 would have to give their word of honor." Twomey said Whitelaw was i The defendant said of him self anaVhis accomplices: "When we were young we were told that when we die we will become stars in the sky.

"We wanted to become three stars of the hunter. The survivor of, the three Japanese terrorists who attacked the crowd in th airport May 30 with machine guns and grenades spoke out snortly alter tne prosecution rested its case. The 24-year-old Japanese said the attack, in which 28 persons were killed and 67 wounded, was to "benefit revolutionary warfare, which I define as a war of justice." llGf I oaa, Indicated Consult Local Forocoit The State i Partly cloudy through tor morrow with widely scattered mainly afternoon or evening thundershowers. Highs 86' to 95. Low tonight near 80 Keys and 70s elsewhere.

Apalachlcola is' Islamorada 19 Jacksonville 92 Key West 89 Orlando 94 Tallahassee 93 Tampa 92 3 West Palm Beach 90 Pric. 7J 77 .02 New Moon IstQtr. July 10 July 18 Full Moon LastOtr. July 26 Aug. Moonset 'Today 10:23 a.m.

Moonrise Tomorrow 10:22 p.m. Sunset Today p.m. Sunrise Tornorr a.m. 74 PHASES OF THB MOON dinono Dt From McGovern Seeks To Heal Split Figure Show Low twnparohirM Expadtd U.S. Dept.

of ComMrc iThe.Natiafi A cold front stretchlne from Michigan to Kansas pushed warm and humid air over the eastern half of the ntlon today and trlssered showers end thundershowers. Severe thunderstorms hit parti of the midcontinent. One rumbllno through. norlhentral Kansas dropped hall up to an inch In diameter. In the East, a weakening tropical depression In Virginia brought threat of heavy rains.

Flash-flood warnings were In effect for small streams In the Shenandoah Valley and along th Blue Ridge Mountains, through portions of western northeastern West Virginia and much ol th Appalachian region of Virginia. The western third of the nation was mostly fair and dry, except tor somo showers In the northern Rockies. Prc. Atlanta Birmingham Boston Buffalo Charleston. S.C 89 68 89 65 94 71 81 72 83 77 Cincinnati i a Cleveland 87 49 Dnver 57 Des Moines 86 48 89 44 Houston- 8a 75 Honolulu ia 7, Indianapolis 89 44 Kansas City 81 9 Los Angeles Memphis a Milwaukee j7 Mols-St.

Paul jo 57 New Orleans 89 47 New York V.i 90 71 Omaha 84 48 Philadelphia 86' 70 Pittsburgh 84 63 St. Louis e2 70 imcaso so .33 .43 .15 .13 .66 1.30 2.06 3m t-rencisco 76 41 SI Until Friday Morning lilart) Prtdpilatlon Nl Partly cloudy through tomorrow with a few showers mainly in the populated areas during morning hours and shifting inland during the afternoon. Low tonight in mid 70s, high tomorrow in upper 80s. Mostly southeast winds 10 to 15 becoming light and variable at night. I i.m.

Barometer (Inches) 30.08 Humidity (Per cent) 100 Wind Velocity (mph) Calm Timperatures Ft. Lauderdale Plantation Hollywood Rainfall Ft. Lauderdale Plantation Hollywood Today TIDE DATA Bahia Mar a.m. p.m. 10:49 11:17 4:45 Tomorrow a.m.

p.m. 11:38 12:03 5:31 Hlllsbore Inlet a.m. p.m. 11:00 11:28 5:19 5:35 a.m. p.m.

11:49 12:14 4 05 4:23 High Low High Low 0 Uf 37.9S ll Jj (Continued from Page One) refused to fight in Vietnam and his opposition to legalizing marijuana. The final official first-ballot vote for the presidential nomination was: McGovern 1,864.95 Jackson 48S.6S Wallace 377.5 Chisholm 101.45 Sanford 69 .5 Humphrey 35 Mills 32.8 Muskie 20.8 1 Kennedy 10.65 Hayes 5 McCarthy 2 Mondale 1 Abstaining 9.7 In a living room crowded with kinfolk and confidants, McGovern watched his nomination on television under the heat and glare of television lamps recording the moment. After 18 months, starting from nowhere, the candidate of discontent had won. His eyes shone bright with emotion. He kissed his sisters and his nieces and shook hands with the men, then went back to writing on a yellow pad with a felt-tip pen the acceptance speech he will deliver tonight.

But hostility remained from the old guard. On the convention floor, the die-hard supporters of Hubert H. Humphrey and Edmund S. Muskie cast their votes for the token candidates or for Sen. Henry M.

Jackson of Washington, a party warhorse, rather than go with the obvious winner. Jackson and Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace remained unreconciled to the bitter end to a McGovern candidacy on a liberal platform and so did Wallace's antibusing supporters and Jackson's labor supporters. The votes of Illinois delegates who had ousted and antagonized Chicago Mayor Richard J.

Daley provided McGovern's majority. Illinois swelled his total to 1,728.35 votes, 219 more than a majority showing how close it might have been had he not recovered 151 California delegates taken from him by the party's credentials committee in an act he had decried as foul and evil. Other delegates came across after their votes "were no longer needed, but many did not make the conciliatory switch, demonstrating that the wounds remained raw. Mills, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, 1 could reassure the old guard and the South. He shares few of McGovern's views, but his ties are strong to the party's disenchanted congressional wing.

Without naming them, McGovern adviser Fred Dutton said 12 to 14 persons remained on McGovern's vice presidential list. But freshman Sen. Thomas F. Eagleton of Missouri said that the choice, with Kennedy's refusal, had narrowed down to; three and that he was among them. Sen.

Abraham A. Ribicoff of Connecticut, a Jew who could be helpful with the Jewish vote in two states New York and California uneasy about McGovern's alleged lukewarm support to Israel, was on the Eagleton list. So was Leonard Woodcock, president of the United Auto Workers, whose labor background could help McGovern overcome the distrust of George Meany, president of the AFL-CIO. Meany remained unreconciled to the bitter end to McGovern's candidacy and talked about labor sitting out the election. Eagleton, who shares most of McGovern's liberal stands, was a big vote-getter as attorney general of Missouri.

Ribicoff, who served in the Cabinet of President of John F. Kennedy, denied any interest. A denial also came from Mills, but he hedged enough to arouse disbelief. Perhaps in a move of reconciliation, Mills withdrew from the presidential race just hours before the began last nighy 43 60 79 72 V4 30'M 4 Washington.

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