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2: DAILY I'HIISS, MWI'OKT NKWS, VIKGIMA, I 'Itlll AY MOUNIMG, JULY 1 1, l72 Fischer Forfeits Game, Plans Unveiled cGovern 's Funding Cameras Cause Boycott nity about the candidate's at- closer to his goal, radicular-tilude toward it. However, ly worrisome to the business many were not reassured and community is talk about In-the stock market has fallen to creases in the corporate In-new lows on successive days come tax and elimination of as McGovern advanced even the investment credit. RKYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) B)l)liy Fischer forfeited Thursday's chess Rame with 'world champion Boris Spassky. He stayed In his i hotel room, sulking because of I movie cameras in the playing hall. His balk for the second In a 24-game schedule left the score 2 to 0 in the Russian's favor.

This gave Spassky a powerful psychological advantage over Fischer, who has never beaten the champion. Jivo Nei, one of Spassky's assistants, said Fischer's failure to appear was "a grave Insult not only to the Soviet people but to the whole world." "The world champion," he DEAL WITH THE PROS! WE SELL! WE SERVICE! WE CARE! CERTIFIED DEALERS FOR have banked $10 million, col-1 from contributors whom tlicy will not identify publicly, while the Democratic party is still about $fi million in debt from its 13 presidential campaign. At the meeting, Kimclman showed no concern that McGovern's economic proposals might scare off wealthy contributors as suggested by some politicians. The problem of McGovern's relations with the financial community, as centered on Wall Street, has been a thorny one for the candidate end his advisers since he moved into the front-running place in the primaries. At one point a group of wealthy supporters, many of them active in business, took a full-page advertisement in tiie Wall Street Journal to reassure the business commu McGovern's primary clectio: races.

The direct-mail and television-appeal goal for the general election is $10 million, second only in amount to the special-gifts category. The o'her continents of the budget are $5 million from special events such as concerts; $4 million from national and state committees and dinners; $1 million from a special young people's effort; $1 million from industry and $500,000 from merchandizing such items as T-shirts. The McGovern campaign goal compares with what Stans has said would be a $'i0-million Nixon campaign. Ki-melman, however, said he believed the Republicans were planning to spend up to $70 million for Nixon. The Republicans already A13 CONDITIONING FOR FREE ESTIMATES CALL 723-7949 fc.j'gfl HEATING AIR CONDITIONING 5INCF 1952 224 ALTERS CREEK ROAD, HAMPTON (Kditnr'a note: The following report on Sen.

George McGovern's campaign fi.iance blueprint is from Dick Barn and II. L. Schwartz HI of the Associated Press Sj)ecial Assignment Team.) By The Associated Press MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) McGovern forces are asking wealthy individuals for $4.5 million in loans this week, kicking off a fund-rds-ing strategy partly styled after Republican methods that have brought millions from the rich to President Nixon's campaigns. A private meeting of select fund raisers for Sen.

George McGovern was told the financial goal for the fall election campaign is $36.5 million, with $15 million of that to come from large donors. This is an apparently reluctant switch for the populist McGovern, who raised more than 80 per cent of his rre-Dcmocratic Convention funds from small donations solicited by direct mail. The loan fund is to cover heavy immediate expenses in voter registration and ad-v a telephone deposits, McGovern's chief money men told the meeting which was held hours before the national convention began. "We need $4 million to $5.5 million seed money to register new voters," Miles Rubin told the money raisers. Rubin is a New York lawyer who head the special-gifts cam- HUBSOH paign, which seeks donations of $5,000 and up.

Said Rubin of voter registration: "If there was to be one effort alone in the campaign, that would be it." He said also that telephone service deposits of up to $1.25 million would be required, $425,000 In California alone. The loans are to be paid with $1 out of each $4 in subsequent campaign contributions. Rubin and Henry Kimel-man, a Virgin Islands importer who is McGovern's finance chairman and second highest contributor to date, confided to the meeting they were patterning their special gifts campaign after their opposition. "We want to do what Maurice Stans has done for the Republicans," Rubin said, referring to the President's chief money man and farmer secretary of commerce who raised $20 million for Nixon in 1963. Criticism of large donations has mounted in recent months with growing public awareness of how political campaigns are financed.

Said Rubin: "Sen. McGovern now realizes the vital need to move into the special-gifts area. 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." Morris is Morris Dees, a Montgomery, attorney who devised a successful di-r t-m a i 1 campaign that raised 4 i 1 lio for i ALL $9)53 RESIDENTIAL COMMERCIAL Fully Insured FREE Estimates SIZES Carton of 2S3 added, "cannot dance to Fischer's tune." Fischer knew before he came to Iceland to play for the world title that the match would be filmed. And Chester Fox, the promoter who owns the three cameras, said they were out of Fischer's sight and hearing. "He said just knowing they were there bothered him," Fox said, adding later: "I pity the poor guy." All attempts to get Fischer to the chess table where he lost the first game to Spassky on Wednesday proved futile.

The temperamental American chess whizz even turned down an appeal based on his responsibilities as a "folk hero of the Americans." The future of the match, said chief referee Lothar i now depends on whether Fischer persists in his walkout. i said the International Chess Federation could intervene and disqualify the American challenger, allowing Russia to keep the world title It has held for 24 years. But at the end of the day, Schmid said there would be a game on Sunday as scheduled. The row over the cameras began early Thursday when Fischer said he couldn't play alongside them in the Sports Palace. Fox, whose purchase of television and film rights for the match allowed the Icelandic chess federation to offer a record $125,000 in prize money, said the cameras had to stay.

In an attempt at compromise, Fox's lawyer Richard Stein sent Fischer a letter at 5 a.m. appealing to him to at least talk about the problem. "As a folk hero of the Americans, you must permit millions of Americans to share this experience with you in their homes, for the benefit of chess and for the benefit of the rest of the world," Stem's letter said. Fischer ignored the appeal. Ten minutes before the match was to begin, Fred Cramer, a U.S.

Chess Federation official, called the match organizers to say Fischer wasn't coming. Spassky entered the hall on time and tcok his place at the table. At game time Schmid Jlifirljrr WE WERE WITH THE BEST! OPEN 9 A.M. T0 10 P.M. EVERY DAY? CE1LLIS SUPERMARKET ROUTE 17 AT TAB8.VA.

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According to Rule No. 5, if a player is more than one hour late he loses the game by forfeit." During the hour there were telephone calls back and forth between the Sports Palace and Fischer's hotel. Spassky, who left the stage at times, emerged from bell i the curtains after i announcement, bowed to the crowd and left. Richard Stein, lawyer for American promoter Chester Fox, said "we did everything we could" to appease Fischer. Well Make You A Deal You Can't Afford To Turn Down.

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