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1 um 'y THE TAMPA TIMES, Monday, July 3, 1972 J5-A A 7 A 'if It A rvi, IP Vh I 'ca The saga of Bobby: epic made 1 (center) toasts world chess champion Boris Spas-sky in Reykjavik. Russian Ambassador Sergei Astavin is at left. Meanwhile, Spassky sizzles American charge d'affaires Theodore Remblay irll snamofes .1 it 43. 0 ag ar t4L -n fw.i iwnMiwri 4 To further cloud a truly Byzantine situation, the Americans based their request on two cables from New York, one from the head of the American Chess Federation and the second from a doctor who is a friend of Fischer. The cables, if they exist, never arrived.

In any event, Euwe made his decision in spile of the American tactics, not because of them. He also dispatched an Icelandic chess player and friend of Fischer's to New York totry and persuade the reluctant giant to get here by noon tomorrow, but Euwe was not optimistic. "I think there will be no play at all," he said. "Fischer doesn't recognize all we are doing here." The American challenger has refused to sign the match agreement, and he is not even personally committed to playing in Reykjavik. The cabled agreement came from the American federation president, who said Fischer had authorized him to say he would compete, but under protest.

hastily pencilled sign on the glass door of Lagur-dur Hall said simply: "No Match Today." And the burning question was: Will there be a match after all? The authorities were throwing rules and precedents to the wind in a desperate effort to save the championship and rescue the Icelandic Chess Federation from financial disaster. After endless conferences with Russians, Americans and Icelanders, and after several hours of soul-searching, Dr. Max Euwe, the World Chess Federation president, announced a two-day postponement. The Russians protested that the step was illegal, and Euwe agreed with them. But he appealed to them to take a sporting attitude, particularly for the sake of the host country, and they did.

The delay had been requested by Americans here who claim to represent Fischer. Euwe pointed out it was an extraordinary position to put him in, because none of the Americans have any written authorization from Fischer to represent him. By JOE ALEX MORRIS JR. Low Angeles Times Service REYKJAVIK, Iceland The ballad of Bobby Fischer has already been written. Here in Iceland, the classic form of epic poem is called the saga.

And Bobby Fischer himself is in the middle of creating one. He's getting some notable assistance from an incredible cast of characters, mostly Americans, but no one can challenge his top billing in turning what should have been an epic-making match into an epochal disaster. The 29-year-old American challenger for the world chess crown is playing no show. His tactics have made a shambles of what was supposed to be the most exciting chess match of the century, of perhaps ever. The first of 42 matches against Boris Spassky, the 35-year-old Russian world champion, was to start at p.m.

yesterday (local time). Instead, a -Personalities-Festival hailed by Mrs. Nixon Skyjacker slain at Saigon airport CHICAGO The 4th Lithuanian Folk Dance Festival got under way here with First Lady Pat Nixon urging an audience of some 13,000 to keep their culture alive "so others could enjoy it." The festival, held at the International Amphithe-a attracted 2,000 dancers from Canada, the United States, South America and Europe. It opened yesterday. Lr.

i3 notes to the control cabin demanding that the plane be diverted to Hanoi. The hijacker, in the rear passenger compartment, also talked with the pilot, Capt. Gene Vaughn, 53, of Scotts-dale, over the intercom. "I am doing this for revenge," Vaughn said he told him. "your bombers are maiming and killing our peo-pe of the Democratic Republic of North Vietnam.

You are going to fly me to Hanoi and this airplane will be destroyed when we get there." Vaughn kept up the conversation, telling the hijacker the jet would have to be refueled and contact made with North Vietnam in order to cross the demilitarized zone. Meanwhile the first officer landed the jet at Saigon's Tan Nhut airport where it was ringed by troops and ambulances before the shooting occurred. ing down emergency chutes, used to empty the plane quickly in case of explosion. Several persons received minor scratches or bruises and one passenger, a U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel, suffered a broken leg.

To back up his threats, the hijacker carried a long knife and a package which he said contained a bomb. Vietnamese police sources said two home-made grenades were in the package and there was no indication whether they could hav6 exploded, but the airline described them as harmless "egg-shaped objects" wrapped in aluminum foil. The hijacking attempt began after the jumbo jet, flight 841, left Manila on the last leg of its San Francisco-to-Saigon flight. Binh, who had boarded in Honolulu, grabbed stewardess May Yuen, 23, a Hong Kong Chinese, as a hostage and sent two SAIGON Ml A young Vietnamese man who tried to hijack a Pan American jumbo jet with 153 persons aboard to Hanoi in revenge for U.S. bombing of North Vietnam was overpowered by the pilot and shot to death by an armed passenger yesterday.

The hijacker was tentatively identified today as a speaker at anti-war rallies at the University of Washington Seattle, where he had studied fishery science on a U.S. government scholarship and graduated with honors last month. The young man, carrying a South Vietnamese passport in the name Nguyen Thai Binh, met violent death after the pilot tricked him and landed at Saigon, the flight's scheduled destination, in defiance of his demand to fly to North Vietnam. Tiie 135 other passengers were safely evacuated by slid- Mrs. Nixon Pope deplores crime i H-i' I iii- I I tt I r'-- UP I UK "1 dW X4 rAf ri iffVV .3, i MWMMWBBWWWMMWMMWWMWWItlllM HWlMlMtiM ll1 lIlM 1 I IlljiiillH I ill 1 1 llll ll' VATICAN CITY -Pope Paul VI has deplored crime and desperation which he says leads some people to "exalt revolutionary violence as the only road to liberation." The pontiff, speaking Sunday from his studio window overlooking St.

Peter's Square, did not specifically mention the civil strife in Northern Ireland, the arms race, the war in Indochina or revolutionary violence in Latin America, but Vatican sources said he clearly had these in mind. Poice beat Gas station loses money; N. Tampans claim robbery Pope Pa 1 Ford may exit hospital HOUSTON, Tex. IPI -Kentucky Gov. Wendell Ford, operated on a week ago for a weakened three-inch segment of his main abdominal artery, may be able to leave Methodist-Hospital Thursday an aide says.

Thomas Preston, the governor's press aide, said Ford continues to make excellent progress and hopes to attend the opening session of the Democratic national convention in Miami Beach on July 10. Ford will probably not know until Tuesday if he can be discharged Thursday, Preston said. Two north Tampa service stations reported yesterday $367 in losses from a robbery and a cash disappearance, according to police. Robert B. Haley, 46, an attendant at the Direct Oil Station, 4116 N.

Nebraska told police after he counted the money from the shift, which got off at 11 p.m., there was a $167 shortage against that amount which was sold. Officer W. S. Dill said the Star Service Station, 6202 N. 40th was robbed of about $200 cash about 3:30 a.m.

by a lone gunman. Bill D. Graham, 16, said the suspect entered the gas station carrying a blue steel .22 caliber revolver and demanded Graham give him "all the cash." Box car raided Unknown burglars broke into a box car owned by Seaboard Coast Line Railroad last night, taking $2,800 worth of color television sets. Police Cpl. J.

L. Forbes said the box car was parked on the railroad tracks behind Raybro Electronics, distributor for RCA products in this area. Suspects used a jack handle to pry open the car and evidcntally had a truck to cart off their haul. Eleven color sets and other electronic entertainment items, yet undetermined, were taken. The burglary was reported by Archie Sherril, a railroad representative.

Charged in robbery A 28-year-old Tampa man was charged with armed robbery today following the early morning robbery of another man at the railroad tracks south of the 900 block of Cass Street, Police said. Willie McCray, address unknown, was be taken to county jail this morning after an investigation by police into the robbery of Eddie Ashford, 43, of 1914 Pine St. Officer R. L. Joy said $53 was taken from Ashford at knife point while he was walking along the railroad tracks.

Visitor loses funds A Trenton, N. man yesterday told police his motel room was burglarized of $550 cash as well as some small jewelry and other items. Kenneth Atchley, 61, said his room at the International Inn, 4800 Kennedy was entered by someone using a key since there were no apparent signs of force. Officer D. J.

Jank said the burglars entered the room via the hall door, removed the items and fled unnoticed sometime yesterday evening. A number of Tampa motels and hotels have been plagued by a rash of burglaries to rooms in recent months, most of them involving use of a key rather than physical force to open the rooms, police said. Wendell Ford At one time there were more candidates on hand than non-candidates but it is early in the political season, with qualifying dates July 11-25 still more than a week away. At lop. tickets for the barbecue were sold under shady oaks.

A Democratic dog enjoys a little barbecue, center, with his family. At bottom, Al Lombardi, who said he will seek the Democratic nomination for one of the state representative scats, and his family brought the Lombardi twins along. 'Vis the season It was a balmy early-summer afternoon Saturday in Rowlctt Park along the Hillsborough River as local Democrats began warming up but not heating up for the 1972 campaigns. A couple of hundred political activists and their families drifted in and out during the afternoon chicken barbecue and rally sponsored by the Tampa Democratic Women's Club. Portugal head backed LISBON Portuguese President Americo Thomaz Rodrigues has been named a candidate for a third seven-year term by the country's only authorized political party, the National Popular Action group..