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July 12, 1972 tiV move. But London bookies have lav grandmaster present at the -l -7 SPRINGFIELD (Ma.) LEADER-PRESS Fischer Underdog in First Match After a 'Blunder' tournament, said, "It is doubtful whether black can save a draw." Spassky, who had the first move, is playing the white pieces, Fischer the black. Fischer has played Spassky five times in the past, losing ail made the 29-year-old American the favorite over the 35-year-old Russian in the 24 game championship. A draw counts half a point and a win a point To dethrone Spassky, Fischer needs 12V4 points while the Russian can retain his crown with 12 points. The winner will get 153,122 in prize money, the loser $91,875, afternoon.

The opener "of and in addition they will divide' equally an estimated $55,000 or- I more from film and television sales. -Whe second game of the match is scheduled for Thursday and the third Sunday. The contest may last two months. i th richest fd "the advantage of the first chess competition in history ad journed Tuesday night after 4 three times he played me black pieces and getting draws both times be played the whites and Bv STEPHENS BROENING REYKJAVIK. Iceland (AP) Defending champion Boris Spassky was favored by the experts to beat American challenger Bobby Fischer in the opening game of the world chess match when play resumes this WHEN ALL YOU NEED IS A hours and 34 minutes of play and 40 moves by each player.

The game was to resume at p.m. noon CDT. Referee Lothar Schmid of West Germany will make Spassky's 41st move. The Russian wrote it on a slip of paper and handed it to him in a sealed envelope at the adjournment. The two competitors, their seconds and chess enthusiasts throughout the world spent part of the overnight break analyzing possibilities for the 11 pieces remaining on the ereen and hite HOME LOAN Russia to Shoot 5 Collaborators MOSCOwTaP) A military tribunal in the south Russia city of Simferopol has sentenced five men to die before a Tiring squad and another man to IS years in a labor camp for collaborating i GREAT SOUTHERN OK- 1 SAVINGS, I chessboard in Reykjavik'' i fba aL iMHMBaSHMaHHHUMHn sports hall: king and five pawns for Fischer; king, bishop and three pawns and a bishop for Spassky.

The match had appeared headed for a draw until Fischer tried to seize the initiative on his 29th move. The lanky Brooklyn, N.Y., -in T.ln. Off on Honeymoon with German occupation forces in World War II. Pravda. the Communist party newspaper, said the six men were guards at "a Nazi death camp and conducted "mass executions." The report said an Investigation and eyewitness testimony proved at the six-week trial that "the traitors tortured, burned, strangled and shot Soviet citizens." The Soviet government has been searching for Nazi collaborators since the end of the war.

Twenty-two Russians have been sentenced to death in the past 18 months for "betraying the motherland" during the Mr. and Mrs. Early Henry ride down a Dubuque, Iowa, street as Ihey leave the church for their honeymoon, recently. The bride, the former Marsha Bellings, explained that her husband is a motorcycle club member, and that she wanted his hobby to be part of their wedding day. challenger galloped his bishop down a long black diagonal to I snatch an unprotected pawn I Spassky had offered.

A few I moves later the bishop was trapped and lost in exchange for two pawns. 1 grandmaster Robert! THEN ALL YOU NEED TO Willie Wows Em at Session DO IS SEE US AT GREAT SOUTHERN SAVINGS! Byrne said it was a blunder and commented, "Fischer is going to have troubhsmaking a draw. DIRTY DEAL the big California i delegation fight. Brown related: "When I walked into the hotel lchby the employes and the manager came over with a big grinning, and said, 'Congratulations. We Brown put decided emphasis on the word "we." "I suspect that smile will con overwhelming personality.

Brown has emerged as the prominent figure of the McGovern campaign in California If Brown is a "cat" in his personal life style, he's a new breed of cat to California politics. As a freshman assemblyman, he was the only Democrat who dared vote against powerful Jess Vn-ruh's re-election as Assembly speaker. Unruh punished Brown by relegating him to meaningless committee assignments. DAYTON. Ohio (AP) Mrs.

James Hcrr got a dirty deal. While she was out, someone dumped several hundred pounds of soil on her driveway. I don't see bow Spassky can Analyzing the game for The I Associated Press, international grandmaster Isaac Kashdan termed Fischer's move "a rare i miscalculation by the American i He said it gave Spassky good prospects for a win. Svetozar Gligoric, the Yugos- i PARK FREE At aW few Kit tinue until Friday when we tell By BILL STALL MIAMI BEACH. Fla.

(AP) -Willie Brown, by his own terms, Is a "cat" He's earned a reputation after nearly eight years In the California Legislature as a tough, shrewd, hyperactive, modish-dressing lawmaker. Within four two-year terms. Brown, 38, soared from the bad boy among Democrats in the Assembly to chairman of the budget-making Ways and Means Committee. He'll wind up an impassioned, evangelical-speech with a slow-breaking grin that spreads across his face with splash like the Atlantic waves washing in on Miami Beach. "You dig?" he'll ask.

and sometimes burst into uncon- him that we don't have the rest of his money," Brown said, A minimum wage of 40 cents an hour was established by an NORTHWEST CORNER SOUTH AT WALNUT industrial code in 1333. breaking into a big guffaw. HI July Spectacular Vatao OUR 100TH ANNIVERSARY YEAR But be has fought his way into the legislative leadership on his own. And he seems delighted to be in the spotlight. "I am Willie Brown co-chairperson of the California delegation," he declared from the rostrum In the opening session of the convention just so there would be no about it.

And he relishes the anomaly of the onetime poor boy from Texas holding a suite at the plush Doral Country Club Hotel, headquarters for the California delegation. When he got to the hotel Friday. Brown said, "The bellman ran up to me and said, 'Hello Mr. Ashe." They thought I was Arthur Ashe, the tennis At a Tuesday caucus, after the McGovern forces had won Today, Brown Is known to the Democratic National Convention and a national television audience as the slender black man who mounted the rostrum during the turbulent California credentials crisis early Tuesday morning and appealed: me back my delegation!" Brown, one of three cochair-men of the 271-delegate California slate, didn't become an avowed backer of Sen. George UvJU McGovern until this spring.

But through his adeptness at practical politics and his sometimes- REGULARLY 429.95 "I (f i mm Ik iii O1 Aim at Military Government Argentina's Unions Ready To Strike, March, Fight workers from the Ika-Renault factory marched on the city, thrusting aside police lines. The army intervened and rioting raged for 48 hours; leaving 14 aeaa, nunareds wounded, property damage in the millions of dollars. In the absence of the fiery Tosco, Atilio Lopez is the strongest labor leader here. He is president of the Transport Union with 2,000 members and By ROBERT D. OHMAN CORDOBA.

Argentina (AP) Cordoba's union men speak of themselves as "combativos," ready to strike, march or fight on order. The regional confederation of labor makes sparks fly on Argentina's labor front. It has swung hard to the left, with disciplined protests aimed directly at the nation's military government. The national confederation, on the other hand, remains more relaxed, close to the center ideologically. The Cordoba group has called five general strikes so far in 1972 for various lengths of time, and can shut down this industrial city of 850,000 persons on an hour's notice.

The militancy has brought accusations of anarchy, bitter word! with national confederation leaders, and a stiff response from the government. secretary-general of the region al labor confederation. Lopez is a big man, shoulders filling his gray business-suit jacket, black hair combed back. He talks rapidly and emphat- 23" diagonal Airline color TV COLOR MAGIC purifies colors Converts table model orconsolette Stylish modern walnut-color cabinet ically: Argentina's biggest problem Is economic independence: "Wa must be free of the international monopolies." Cordoba has a "special history" in the country's union movement "Many of our men See the baseball games in'dozzling, true-to-life color on this big-picture Airline TV! Tinted glass have died and many have been Agustin Tosco, leftist presi JUST SAY "CHARGE- imprisioned but we are still dent of Cordoba's light and power was arrested 14 fighting. We have permanent iinpiovei tontrusrrpultorupiftTvofF volume con-trol prevents sudden blare.

3 IF stages improve reception, even in fringe areas. Built-in UHF, VHF antennas. Legs unscrew to convert to table model. months ago under the state of mobilization. We are getting more support, particularly from siege decree.

He is still impris WE SERVICE WHAT WE SELL PHONE ONE OF 2,000 WARDS STORES NATIONWIDE! the students." oned but no charges have been Cordoba unions have "pro filed. tested, appealed and struck de manding that Tosco be released "but we have no hope at this Cordoba's union men have shown they could shut down the city on short notice, but troops of the Cordoba-based 3rd Army Corps, under Gen. Alcides Lopez Aufranc, have demonstrated THE ENTERTAINER moment. We won't negotiate with the government or say thank you. His imprisonment is unjust.

He should be free. There is nothing for us to talk about quick reaction too. AIRLINE MEDITERRANEAN CONSOLE STEREO In 1969 a general strike turned ugly when thousands of auto with the government." Japanese Minister Appeases Rival eration. Chief Cabinet Secretary Susumu Nikaido reported, but tliere was no word of what the prime minister did to bring Fu kuda around. SPECIAL BUY! (Pi Funeral Thursday For Mrs.

Houtchens CLINTON. Mo. (AP) Fu TOKYO (AP) Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka and his rival Takeo Fukuda patched things up today, and two Fukuda men accepted the cabinet posts they refused last week. Makoto Miike, 72, became minister of posts and telecommunications, and Kiichl Arits, 71, became director-general of the economic planning agency. Tanaka had taken the posts himself when they rejected them.

Prime Minister Eisaku Sato had favored Fukuda, who was his foreign minister, to succeed him. But Tanaka formed a successful alliance with other candidates in their Liberal-Democratic party and won the post last week. Fukuda said earlier that he neral services are scheduled in Clinton Thursay for Mrs. Em met Houtchens, mother of Del- ton L. Houtchens, state Democratic chairman, who died Tues day.

She was 73. Mrs. Houtchens had under receiver with solid-state chassis that avoids domoging heat. Tape player with automanual trade selector and lighted track Indicator. Four speakers balanced for full stereo separation.

4-speed, automatic record changer Handsome cabinet in rich pecan veneer. gone surgery and was a patient at Golden Valley Hospital. Her ton did not attend the national Democratic convnetion because of her illness. kept Miike and Arits out of the cabinet because he wanted four The U.S. is the fourth largest meat-eating nation per capita in SHOP MONDAY SATURDAY, 10 A.M.-9:30 P.M.

BATTLEFIELD MALL posts for his faction, not two. He i the world, according to the 1972 met with Tanaka today and agreed to give Nm his full coop edition of the World Almanac. 7.

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