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The Pocono Record from Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania • Page 2

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The Pocono Recordi
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Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania
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Pocono Record, The Stroudsburgs, Pa. July 21, 1972 Fischer wins fifth match Arms ac in $250,000 chess REYKJAVIK, Iceland -Bobby Fischer won (he fifth game of Ihe world chess championships Thursday night, forcing Champion Boris Spass- ky to resign on the 28lh move while a cheering crowd in Reykjavik's Grand Hall shoul- ed, "Bobby! Bobby!" The American challenger's victory squared the 24-game, $250.000 championship match with the Russian world champion at 2Vi games each. After Fischer played his 27lh move, a bishop lo his queen rook five taking a pawn, Spassky looked intently at the table for a full minute. Then lie looked up at Fischer and held out his hand. The crowd went wild, stamping their feet, clapping hands and yelling, "Bobby! Bobby:" Chess enthusiasts in the cafe- following the moves relayed from the hall burled saucers and glasses into the air.

Before the game Fischer had issued another list of complaints about Ihe playing quarlers and sent his entourage out to scout up pocket money Playboy magazines. before play started he again that closed circuit television be banned from the i Spassky opened the game with his queen pawn and Fischer, who was his habitual three or four minutes late, rushed in and responded by tourney iblack setting up the defense-the strategy he em ployed in the first game, which he lost. Tile American played methodically and fairly quickly while Spassky look his time over each move and spent 105 minutes completing his first 20. Fischer spun around in his special sivivcl chair between moves and fidgeted with his eyes, cars and nose while the champion sat staring at the board or walked around tiie stage and backstage. Arbiter Lotliar Schmid said Spassky's position was hopeless when Fischer made his 27th move.

"I knew it was coming," Schmid said, "in a I was ready to get off my chair any moment." S. Vietnam political control snags renewed peace talks PARIS semi- 1 public Paris Vietnam peace talks ran into a stone wall on the problem of political power in South Vietnam again Thursday with no success evident from U.S. negotiator Henry Kissinger's private talks with 5 Vietnamese Communists Wed' nesday. i President Nixon's special adviser was hardly back in Washington after a six and a half hour private meeting in Paris with Hanoi's top negotiators when delegations to the weekly Paris conference on the war entered the international conference hall in sticky heat. Despite the secret talk and the unprecedented announcement about it on the same day by both the North Vietnamese and the United Slates, the delegations in speeches made public clung to the same opposing positions.

Labor bill abandoned After Thursday's talks, "There was perhaps a slight improvement in the tone of exchanges but nothing discernible on substance. We don't demand their acceptance of everything we propose. Bui 1 couldn't evoke from them any kind of statement which indicated (heir proposals are ne gotiable," Porter said. Porter, in a conciliatory- sounding statement during the session, almost begged the Communists for "rational discussion of the difficulties we have with each other's position." North Vietnam's Xuan Tbuy said before stepping into his limousine. "We still are waiting for new American proposals.

We are ready to discuss these but today they brought nothing new." "The United States has the responsibility to cease all support of that (Thieu) administration." Tbuy said in bis speech. Tliuy's brief speech made no mention of his meeting with Kissinger and Hanoi Communist party Politburo member Le Due Tho Wednesday, nor did any of the other "delegation speeches. The Viet Cong's chief negotiator. Mine. Nguyen Thi Binli, sharply denounced Nixon's May i) peace proposal for a cease- fire, prisoner release and U.S.

troop withdrawal to be followed by a political settlement worked out by the Vietnamese themselves. reason for ouster CAIRO (UPI)-An informal secret agreement between the United States and Soviet Union to limit arms shipments to the Middle East prompted Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's demand for the withdrawal of Soviet military advisers, Informed political sources said Thursday. In another development, The Jerusalem Post, quoting "Western diplomatic sources" in Israel, Thursday that Sadat already had made overtures to the United States in hopes of reviving efforts toward a partial peace settlement. Sadat broke off contacts i Washington last year on a U.S.-proposud plan for an interim agreement which would include reopening the Canal. The Cairo sources said an understanding to slow the Middle East arms race was readied by the two super powers during the summit talks last May in Moscow between President Nixon and the Kremlin leaders.

'The sources said Egypt was hit harder by the" arms limitation agreement than was Israel. Committee approves SALT pact WASHINGTON I The Senate Foreign Relations Corn- mill ee unanimously approved Thursday a treaty limiting U.S. and Russian ABM defensive missile systems and a companion agreement limiting offensive nuclear missilcdeployment for five years. Negotiated during two years of Strategic Arms Limitations Talks in Helsinki and Vienna, the treaty and interim agreement were signed by President Nixon and Soviet Communist party chairman Leonid Brezhnev during the Moscow summit meeting in May. Only the treaty limiting both nations to just two antiballistic missile sites requires a Senate vote.

The interim agreement must be affirmed by the House. In healings before the (louse Foreign Affairs Committee earlier Thursday, Secretary of State William said the administration hoped Congress would approve both before recessing Aug. 18. Federal meat inspectors accused of rigging probe IF VOU HAVE NEVER SHOPPED US BEFORE HOWS THE TIME TO DISCOVER THE SAVINGS IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD JOHNS FAMILY BARGAIN STORES by Nixon WASHINGTON (UPl (-Organized labor won a major battle Thursday when President Nixon abandoned efforts to win Congress' approval for his plan for compulsory arbitration of strikes in the transportation industries. White House Press Secretary Ronald Zicgler announced the decision just a day after the AFL-CIO executive board voted to withhold its traditional support of the Democratic presidential ticket and less than a week after the Teamsters Union endorsed Nixon.

Ziegler insisted Nixon bad made no deals lo obtain either the active or tacil support of labor in his November race against George S. McGovcrn. The bill, originally proposed by Nixon in 1969, would have prohibited railroad, dock and other transportation strikes which could cripple the economy of a region or the nation. Depository set ablaze by arsonists DALLAS Arsonists broke into the Texas School Book Depository i i a spread gasoline across five floors and set fire to the 68-yoar-ulrl where I.ce Harvey Oswald waited to (issassinHle President Kennedy. Firemen, aided by the vacant building's sprinkler system, extinguished the blano within 2-1 minutes.

"There was quite a bit of fire, but the sprinkler system 1 put most of it out," said K. McCowan, assistant fire chief. "It was definitely arson," lie said. "We found gasoline cans on five floors and the smell of gasoline was all through the building." Our HARRlSnUHG (UI'U A slate witness testified Thursday Hint federal moat inspectors rigged the review that led to the federal takeover of the slate's meat inspection system. William M.

Griffith, officer in charge of the slate's enforcement program, gave a three- hour account of what lie called a "100 per cent improper" inspection by the federal authorities at ,1 hearing on a stale pe- lilion to halt the takeover. His testimony was aimed at backing up thoslatc's contention thai the federal takeover Mon- Inspection blasted by Ottaway News Service WASHINGTON Rep. I). Rooney, told the a A i a a a "deplored" by Ihe a takeover of meat inspection activities in Pennsylvania. Calling on Secretary Earl T.

Butz to rescind the takeover order, Rooney said he was furthermore "appalled by the heavy-handed manner in which a inspectors have been given" until July 18 lo file applications if they wish to work as federal inspectors. Rooney told Bulz that he a a i a i i a a concerned a i meats offered for sale in the a a a a human consumption. But federal takeover occur- (lay was unfounded and politically motivated. Griffith testified that inspectors from the U. S.

Department of Agriculture conducted an intensive review of the state's meal plants from June 21 lo 17 which would determine the facls of the program. Griffith said he and other stale inspectors accompanied the federal officials in the inspections and in each case, the federal inspectors did not fill out the required forms. The state had 19 stale inspectors wailing in Ihe courtroom program Rooney red at a time when (lie Pennsylvania legislature had just completed action on a budget which provides for the expansion of the state's meat inspection force "to carry out the objectives of federally- composed inspection a dards," he said. "Pennsylvania lias just added 20 inspectors to its staff. Rinding of the state inspection program is at an all-time high of 1.4 million," Rooney noted.

Furthermore, the "heavy- handed manner" which has marked federal takeover of a i i I li Bethlehem Congressman said, will likely destroy hundreds of small businessmen farmers, a a a everything at slake." to support his testimony. Griffith charged that the federal inspectors (lien sent "score sheets" to their superiors in flarrisburg who wrote the final reports. "None of the inspectors signed their own reports," he said. "There were five or six different signatures, all signed by the people in Harrisburg." Griffith said that during the lours, "the federal inspectors spent 10 minutes on an inspection that normally lakes two lo four hours and spent the rest of the time selling federal inspection to the plant operators." Griffith also testified lie did a comparison of the score sheets and the i a reports which showed (hat the officials in Harrisburg "made up" violations. Another state witness, Stan- Icy Call), executive secretary of (he National Association of State Depaiimenls of Agriculture, said that small meal plants in rural Pennsylvania will close in the wake of the federal takeover.

Calh, who said the association serves as a liason between the stales and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, testified that the USDA had taken over seven state nu'al inspection programs. Whirlpool APPLIANCES Sales and Service GEORGE SHULTZ Phone (717)646-3787 Blakeslee, Pa. If you haven't trained your pooch to bring it home you can buy your daily copy of The Pocono Record at BLUE VALLEY FOOD MARKET Blue Valley Pen Argyl, Pa. BUCK'S COLLEGE SHOP Normal East Stroudsburg Joy is remembering the great Plymouth buy Summer dFTSL Fury Gran Coup, 2-Door Hardtop UTHOIMKD ntAlEH S'S CHRYSLER MOTQnscapronATiarf FREE TICKETS TO A PHILLIES' GAME! Come in now for a test drive or car appraisal at any of your Phillfeland Chrysler-Plymouth dealer's.

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