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24 The Pocono Record, The Stroudsburgs, Pa. July 7, 1972 Little Mark Frerck, 6, of Houston climbs to where he thinks is a safe spot while watching the goats at Houston's Busch Gardens, only to Trains like track star Unsafe at any height find out that young goats are pretty agile, too! (UPI Telephoto) Russian chess master boy By United Press International Boyish Boris Spassky cool when those around him sweat and squirm. lie sils on a Moscow stage under boiling Kliog lights, surrounded by a hundred newsmen. His future is at stake. A powerful and lerrible- temperixi man wants his job.

In a soft and nonchalant voice, lie says: "I do nol know who will win. but 1 am sure it will be- an interesting and i a 1 event." Boris Vasilevich Spassky. 35, of Leningrad. Russia, is the world chmnpion at the game of chess. lie could nut be more unlike America's Bobby Fischer, the cocky and controversial chess genius who is challenging for Spassky's title and boasting lie will win.

Fischer worries Soviet-on-street By United Press International Possibly what most worries the mnn-on-the-slt'L'et in Moscow these days is a chess player from Brooklyn, N.Y., named Robert James Fischer. Beginning July 2. Fischer will attempt to dethrone Soviet and world chess champion Boris Spassky in a series of matches in Reykjavik, Iceland. For a Russian, the thought thai Fischer could defeat their champion is something akin to what an American would feel at the idea that nine Soviets could whip the I'itlsbiirgh I'irales in four straight. The object of the Russians' concern is still called "Bobby" I hough he is now 28 years old.

Fischer was born in Chicago March 9, 1913, but raised in Brooklyn. N.Y.. where his family moved when lie was two years old. His sister liiuyhl Bobby the fundamentals of chess when he was six. With Ihe help of a neighbor interested in the game and his own remarkable powers of memory and concentration, Fischer became United Stales champion al the age of 14.

Since then, the black and white squares of the chess board and Ihe desire to prove himself unequalled in his mastery of Ihcm. have become Fischer's obsession. Ho dropped out of Frasmus High School in Brooklyn in his junior year. "I couldn't waste my limi 1 uilli all those stupid kids." and with teachers "even stupider than the kids." he said. Now 2J, a gangling fi-fool 2- inchcs (all, ami good-looking with penetrating eyes and a shock of unkempt brown hair, Fischer lives (inictty in l.o.s Angeles.

Few seem to know what he does or how he lives. i has few friends and virtually no life outside of chess. Fischer has won an unprecedented string of victories in the pasl two years, the last over Ihe Armenian master of defensive chess, Tifiran I'etrosian, to earn the right to face Spassky, who had earlier defeated I'elrosian to win the world title. With an unsurpassed memory HHfl encyclopedic knowledge of the game, Fischer is a grc.il positional player and ferocious Hit acker, But his complaints about flashbulbs, noise, living conditions and spectator move- Cost addition Kalliarine lio.ss has been added lo Ihe cast of "They Only Kill Their Maslers," starring James (ianier. ment have been known to drive tournament directors wild.

American experts are confident of a Fischer victory, although Spassky has won three games and dra previous cncoun istically, Fisclu Once asked was the greatc world, Fische two in their ers.Characler- agree.s. ho he thought replied "II would be nice to lie modest but it would be stupid if I did not tell the truth. It is Fischer." Spassky. who defeated fellow strictly Soviet Tigran I'etrosyan player, for the world tide in 1969, looks more like a 25-year-old track and field star than a 35-year-old chess champion. He sounds more like the nice boy next door than a celebrity.

Slender and broad shouldered, without an ounce of a Spassky can be recognized in a crowd by his thick brown wavy hair and his almost baby face. The soft facial effect is sharpened by a prominant beak of a nose and ice blue eyes that never seem to blink. The champion is soft spoken, courteous, modest and unassuming in ttie extreme. Once al a chess board, however, Mr, Nice Guy disappears. Like Fischer, Spassky is an aggressive, attacking, chess player, although generally rated not quite as quick and a bit more profound in style.

Spassky demolished defensive master I'etrosyan for the title three years ago, beating him in only 2-1 moves in one game with his "hurricane attack." Spassky was born in Leningrad in and took a degree in journalism, although lie is a professional chess He began playing chess at age nine, became an international master at age 16 and world junior champion at age 18 in 1955. He first challenged I'clrosyan for Ihe world title in 1966 and lost. While he has a gentle and charming personality in public, Spassky represents a chess juggernaut thai pours every resource into its gifted players and protects them from public scrutiny in typical Soviet style. Little, therefore, is known about his private life or preparations for this match. It is known, however, that like all Soviet chess players he preps with heavy iithlelic training as well as mental tuning.

He was a track athlete as a young man and likes swimming now. Spassky lives in a Ihree-room Moscow apartment with his second wife. Larissa, a refrigerator engineer, and Ihc'ir son Vasily. who will be five years old the day Ihe championship begins. He also has a 12-year-old daughter.

Tatiana, by a previous marriage. Startling News! McDougal Introduces a Quarter Pound Hamburger. What's So New About That? BURGER CHEF Had It Ai! the Time! They Call It The SUPER SHEF "Something for Everyone al Burger Chef The Complete Family Drive-In" N. 9lh Street Across from Giant Mkt. Stroudsburg, Pa.

424-1170 India, Pakistan manage half-a-loaf conference SIMLA, India (Ul'I)-India nnd Pakistan each gol half a loaf in their summit conference agreement here Monday, but the bread almost fell while it was still in the oven. A last-ditch troop withdrawal proposal by a senior Pakistani delegate made the agreement possible. Bolh Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and Pakistani President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto got a measure of what they had sought. Mrs. Gandhi won a pledge renouncing Hie use of force and Bhutto got back all the territory Pakistan lost in its war last December with India except along the Kashmir cease-fire line.

The agreement took a lot of heat off the Kashmir dispute. Bhutto did not get repatriation of 93,000 Pakistani prisoners of war in India, That senior Pakistani delegate contends India will use them as hostages in an effort to gain advantage in further talks on the Kashmir question. But he said Bhutto is under practically no pressure at home to secure the return of the prisoners and the tactic will not work. Bhutto already has called the National Assembly into special session July 10 to ratify the Simla agreement and it is likely that Pakistan soon will recognize Bangladesh, its eastern wing it lost in the December war with India. Mrs.

Gandhi dropped strong hints at Simla that Pakistan's recognition of Bangladesh was the key to prisoner repatriation. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the Bangladesh Prime Minister, still demands that about 1,500 of the prisoners be tried as war criminats. Observers here believe Mrs. Gandhi could persuade the sheikh to dilute this demand if a i a recognizes Bangladesh. Pakistan may be expected to continue to support self determination for the jwople of Kashmir and India lo oppose a plebiscite.

But the rhetoric on both sides probably will be toned down. Asked if Ihe Kashmir dispute could be settled soon, Ihe senior Pakistani delegate said, "Not quite, but we probably can agree ih.it, pending a settlement, we won't hot up Ihis issue." That, evidently, was good enough for Mrs. Gandhi, who needed Pakistan's agreement lhal it would not disturb the cease-fire line in Kashmir. The Simla agreement calls for troop withdrawals along tl(e border within a 30lay period afler ratification. The Pakistani side believes (hat (he prisoners will be coming home soon after that but is not pushing Dangerous position Cleanliness must count more than personal safety to this South Vietnamese soldier, because he's sure going out of his way to check the barrel of this 90 mm tank on Route 13, one mile north of Chon Thanh.

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