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The Atlanta Constitution from Atlanta, Georgia • 17

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THE ATLANTA CONSTITLTION, July 7, 1972 I7fm Chars 5 es in 1st Wirjetap Case Dropped WASHINGTON (UPI) -The Justice Derjartment dropped charges Thursday against a 1971 May 'ay demonstrator, be first of 34 cases it must deride whether to cease prosecu- ion or dispose results of its il legal wire'Kipping. missal in Superior Court here of an indictment against Bradford Lyttle Jr. Lyttle, a coordinator of the People's Coalition for Peace and Justice which sponsored the 1972 May Day demonstrations here, was indicted for assaulting a police officer with a dangerous weapon, a crime punishable by a maximum of 10 years in prison. U. S.

Attorney Harold H. Titus told the court that after a review of information ob sion will be-made in about two weeks in the case of Lawrence F. Plamondon, a white Pan- ther Party member who fig ured in the June 19 Supreme Court decision outlawing gov-'ernment wiretaps without a court order against so called "domestic subversives." But the department's Internal Security Division refused to provide a list of the 13 other cases, even though all are a matter of public record in the various courts in which they tained on several national security electronic surveillances, two of which might come within the Supreme Court's ban, the government concluded that disclosure of the information would "prejudice the national interest." The other cases range from the trial of the Chicago Seven following the 1968 Democratic National Convention riots to the 1971 May Day demonstrations in Washington. A spokesman said the deci- The Su'jireme Court ruled on hune 19 that government wlre- British Get Titian Masterpiece Back I LONDON Britain's National Gallery announced Thursday night it has paid more than $4.5 million to save a masterpiece of painting from going to American oil billion- i aire J. Paul Getty.

The money to keep Titian's "The Death of Actaeon" in 1 Britain was raised partly by the gallery, partly by the government and partly by the man in the street. Sir John Witt, chairman of the gallery's Titian appeal fund, said: "A check for 1,763,000 pounds $4,583,800 at official parity has been handed over to the J. Paul Getty Museum in Malibu, Calif. The Titian masterpiece, painted by the Venetian artist I 400 years ago for King Philip II of Spain, went to Getty after a London auction in June last year. aps wnnout a court order and Black Panther Bobby Seale.

In the October, 1969, "Days of Rage' riots in Chicago, the government subsequently admitted listening in to telephone- conversations of SDS member Judy Clark who was charged with crossing state lines to incite a riot Five members of the radical Weatherman group charged with cpnspifaey to set off bombs in Chicago, New York, Detroit, and Berkeley, in 1970 were overheard on wiretaps although the government said none of the five nor their premises was ever the specific subject of surveillance. The five: Linda Evans, Diane Donghi, Russell Neu-feld, Jane Spielman and Robert Burlingham. were filed. The spokesman said each would be "made public at the appropriate time." Since 1970, it has been incumbent upon, a defendant to raise a claim of illegal wiretapping before the government will search its Five of the original eight persons charged with conspiring to incite the Chicago convention disorders were admittedly wiretapped by the government, directly or indirectly. They were David T.

Dellinger and Rennie Davis of the National Mobilization Committee to end the War in Vietnam; Thomas E. Hayden, founder of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), Yippie leader Jerry C. Rubin; kgainst so called ''domestic ubversrves" were illegal Vcting line with this deci- ion, trie government won dis- ileal Chess Duel Due Tuesday REYKJAVIK, Iceland UP I) After more than a ivees. of psychological war- farev chess geniuses Bobby "is Cher and Boris Spassky knefc face to face Thursday iiigjUit with the Soviet 'cham been scheduled to start last Sunday but had encountered one delay after another. Most of the delays were over Fischer's haggling for more money.

This obstacle was cleared when a British banker doubled the purse, Fischer came out of seclusion in New York and flew to this island nation in the North Atlantic where Spassky, his own irritation growing, had been pion drawing the white pieces iwWch will give him toe first Jmflve in their world champion-Islirp showdown. jwork done by the Icelandic organizers and -also taking into account the desire among millions of chess fans all over the world that this match be played, the world champion has decided to play with grandmaster i he said. Geller1 'statement also indicated that the Russians had given up their demand Fischer forfeit the first game point because he failed to show up in time for the opening game orginally scheduled for Sunday, July 2. Under match rules, the winner of each game gets one point. If the game is tied, each gets one-half point.

layed and threatened to cancel the 24-match championships. A few hours later Spassky sent word that he was satisfied with the apology, and the two met for the drawing and 1 to inspect the hall and playing facilities, Harry Golombesk, a member of the Central committee of the International Chess Federation (FIDE), announced that "the two players have now agreed to start the match on next Tuesday" in Reykjavik's Sports Hall. Efraim Geller, Spassky's second, read a statement saying the champion was satisfied with conditions for the matches which originally had Spassky, 35, the Soviet title- holder, and Fischer, the tem waiting patiently forthechal- peramental 29 a old American challenger, play the ffirst game in the $250,000 con test Tuesday. lenger. "Fischer has apologized in writing and the president of FIDE has declared that the rules of FIDE will be strictly' followed in the future," Geller said.

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