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Messenger-Inquirer from Owensboro, Kentucky • 17

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Owensboro, Messenger Inquirer, Jury 2, 1972 7-B, By Militant Protestants Barricades reefed in Belfast By COLIN FROST Associated Press Writer BELFAST (AP) Protestant militants in masks and battle dress threw up steel barricades across wide areas of Belfast on Saturday and told the British army: "Keep out." Most of the barricades, said organizers of the Ulster Defense Association UDA will be removed at midnight Sunday. Others, rows of steel spikes cemented into the road under the eyes of British soldiers, were clearly intended to be more permanent. UDA leaders say they will come down only when the British government acts to take control of barricaded areas of Belfast and Londonderry now ruled by guerrilla governments of the outlawed Irish Republican Army. This was the first weekend since the Provisonal wing of the IRA called off, or put into cold storage last Monday its bombing campaign intended to force mainly Protestant Northern Ireland into a merger with the Catholic-dominated Irish Republic. Despite the new barricades and a night of shooting in which at least two men died, Belfast was more relaxed than at any time over the past two years or so.

Streets were full with Saturday shoppers. Store keepers reported business at least 20 per cent better than has been previously. The same relaxed atmosphere filled the bomb-scarred streets of Londonderry, the province's second city. People bustled about their shopping where less than a week ago they had hustled away from bombs. Soldiers patrolled without the flak jackets and steel helmets, which were routine last weekend.

"It's so normal that it seems unreal," one storekeeper said. One of the day's shooting victims in Belfast was found on precincts since little traffic was moving. In Sandy Row, the UDA commander said, the barricading will be temporary but he added: "We now have the men and the experience to make it permanent whenever we wish." The organization, he said, is not affiliated to any political body although for the moment it supports the general aim of William Craig's Vanguard Movement. The UDA's aim, the commander declared, is to impress on the British who control Northern Ireland that they have to rid the province of the IRA terrorists. Craig, himself, told an Orange Order march his Vanguard Movement was "now es tablishing all over the province organizations that can assume the role of a loyalist army if the need should arise.

"We do not propose to negotiate or compromise." the Protestant side of the peace line dividing Protestant and Catholic communities. He had apparently been dumped from a car or shot from a passing vehicle. Another was found by children playing on a garbage dump. He was hooded and shot through the head in the manner associated with IRA execution squads. The deaths brought to 392 the number killed in three years of communal strife.

At least two other men were seriously wounded. Shooting broke out again in the troubled Ardoyne district of west Belfast in the afternoon but without casualties. This was the first big day of the Protestant marcing season. Members of the Orange Order brought out their banners and bands to commemorate the thousands of northerners who died in the 1916 battle of the Somme in World War I. These Orange marches, with their "kick the Pope" battle hymns, are held by most Catho lics to be provocative.

At one point on today's route the British army threw up a canvas screen three storys high to cut off the marchers from the eyes of Catholic residents in an apartment block. Although neither yide would say so, it seemed like, ly that the British army and the UDA had come to an unwritttn agreement that Protestan. barricades would be left untouched so long as they caused no disruption. They were for the most part on side streets and inside Protestant housing developments leaving main traffic arteries open. UDA leaders promised scores of trucks and buses used to block roads would be returned to their owners undamaged by Monday morning.

Inside the barricades, life went on more relaxed than usual. Milk, bread and mail were delivered on time and shopping streets such as Sandy Row had the cheerful air of pedestrian are scheduled to square off today in a rematch but Fischer's demands for more money may cancel the meeting. (AP Wirephoto) BORIS SPASSKY, left of the Soviet Union and American Bobby Fischer, are shown in a match at the World Chess Championships in Siegen, Germany on Sept. 20, 1970. Fischer and Spassky Fischer, on Eve of Chess Match, Seeks More Money scribed as normal pregame mi 1 to 6 P.M.

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July 4, 1972. Holiday Store Hours Sunday 9 A.M. to 6 P.M. By STEPHENS BROENING Associated Press Writer REYKJAVIK Iceland (AP) -It was Bobby Fischer's move Saturday night to break the deadlock threatening the richest chess match ever arranged. The 29-year-old American grand master was balking at a chance to end the Soviet Union's monopoly on the world chess crown because of a last-minute money dispute he created himself.

Fischer was in New York on the eve of the match holding out for more money. The problem was his attempt to grab a share of the gate receipts collected during his 24-game match with world champion Boris Spassky of Russia, scheduled to begin Sunday afternoon. Fischer wants 30 per cent of the gate. His eleventh-hour demand for more money than provided in the original agreement was rejected by the Icelandic Chess Federation that organized the match. I Two meetings between federation president Gudmundur Thorarinsson and Andrew Davis, a New York lawyer rep-lesenting Fischer, produced 'some results," Thorarinsson aid.

But "there are still some jiifficulties." he added. Asked if Davis had promised hat his client would show up -for the opening match, Thorarinsson replied: "We have no assurance." The original terms included money of $125,000, with -five-eights going to the winner, sand an even split of 60 per cent if the income derived from the sale of television and film rights to the match. The purse was 10 times greater than any previous offered for the world title. Fischer succeeded in transforming what had almost been a cottage industry into something resembling big business but not everyone in the chess world appreciated it. Lothar Schmidt, the West German referee for the match, was reported to have been horrified when he heard of Fischer's new financial ultimatum.

Thorarinsson dismissed the demand, saying "I don't think" the federation would pay the players a portion of admission fees. "We are refusing on principle," he said. Another last-minute condition conveyed by Fischer's lawyer was a guarantee, in the form of a letter of credit, that all the prizes would be paid him. "We've said we would live up to our agreement," the federation president replied. If Fischer doesn't appear for the match, Spassky would retain the title.

It also was likely the International Chess Federation would apply strict sanctions against Fischer in future tournaments the federation sponsors. There also was discussion of a possible suit against Fischer by the Icelanders. Spassky remained the outward picture of composure, chatting amiably with reporters at his hotel and joking about his tennis game. He had a two-hour session with Soviet chess grandmaster Jivo Nei, a strong tennis player who gave the 35-year-old Spassky a good workout. Soviet sources said Spassky planned to stay away from the chess board Saturday and relax.

They said he spent most of Friday experimenting at the board with Yefim Geller, his second and principal technical adviser. Spassky was said by one friend to be "somewhat nervous and upset" as the match approached but this was de Monday 8:30 A.M. to 9 P.M. Tuesday 9 A.M. to 5 P.M.

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The government radio quoted its reporter in Simla in making a similar statement. Ths Himalayan state has been one of the chief causes of trouble between India and Pakistan since 1947, when the state's Hindu maharaja joined the territory to India even though most of the Kashmiri people were Moslems like the Pakistanis. After a civil war in 1948 in which both India and Pakistan took part, Kashmir was divided by a U.N. cease-fire. India, however, holds the more populous and productive part.

A high Indian source said neither side was in a mood to compromise over its proposals regarding Kashmir. Informed sources said the Pakistanis have turned down an Indian proposal for a joint commission to settle disputes along ths cease-fire line, eliminating a U.N. military observer group which has been stationed there since 1949. The Indians already have said they no longer recognize the need for, a U.N. force in Kashmir.

Both India and Pakistan have stated they would agree to minor adjustments along the line. But it was not clear if they meant the line drawn after Indian advances made during the two-week war last December or the boundary from the 1965 war over Kashmir. The Pakistanis have demanded the Indians withdraw to the 1965 position and agree to self-determination for the Kashmiris. Sources said Bhutto has offered a 20-year moratorium on Kashmir if the Indians promise to hold a plebiscite after that period giving the Kashmiris the option of joining Pakistan or In- By WILLIAM C. MANN Associated Press Writer SIMLA, India (AP) Both sides in ths India-Pakistan "summit indicated Saturday that Kashmir was the.

major obstacle to a peace settlement Rafter another meeting between Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and Pakistan President Zulfi-kar Ali Bhutto ended with little "evidence of progress. Indian sources said their side submitted a draft settlement in 4 response to a Pakistani docu-Zment presented Friday. Both documents were thought to contain compromise positions on I some issues and agreement on I others. Mrs. Gandhi and Bhutto met -with senior aides for one hour -and 40 minutes, their longest face-to-face discussion since the -conference opened on Wednesday.

Pakistani officials said further meetings were planned. Both leaders refused to com-Tnent on the talks after they demerged from the conference 3 room. They were smiling "blightly and Mrs. Gandhi cleaned down and waved to Bhutto as his limousine left the secretariat. 1 Earlier, Indian Foreign Min--ister Swaran Singh visited Bhutto at his residence but the purpose of the visit was not an-Z nounced.

Indian Foreign Secretary T.N. Kaul described the sum-; mit talks as frank. "They were on the latest In-l dian draft," he said. "There Z' are many points of agreement. There are some differences." I Kaul reported there was "common agreement about du- rable peace and normalization of relations," but gave no "Kashmir may be the main Mix- right Eatly CMcentratt 4fe ff Orange Drink X.

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