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i tt vrr'mc' nrn i iUHilllillliiiilWIIItHWIHtiliUKdlWillWII Suititiiiiittroiiu 1 I lit It. mm it Reykjavik, Iceland, July 5 (UPI) Bobby missing after one hour of game time has expired ioneus we game and point to his opponent. "The Russians did not object Sunday when I postponed the game and now I cannot make such a ruling," Euwe said. He had delayed the start of the match until yesterday when Fischer, holding out for more money, failed to appear for the scheduled opening Sunday. Fischer, 29, the challenger, finally arrived yesterday after a English financier doubled the prize to 5250,000.

With Fischer still resting up for the opening match yesterday, Spassky, 35, arrived at a meeting called to draw lots for the right to make the first play. He threw down a statement saying that Fischer "must bear just penalty" for his behavior and walked out. Bobby Surprises to US. Officials The match was delayed a second time until tomorrow. Fischer's associates talked for 2 hours to Spassky's associates without reaching an agreement and the Russians refused to meet again today, the Americans said.

When sources reported that Spassky had demanded an apology from Fischer, Fred Cramer of the US. Chess Federation said: "I cannot see Fischer apologizing." But Fischer did. The apology was read by The Rev. William J. Lombardy, a New York priest who is one of the 10 Fischer surprised even his own advisers today by formally apologizing to Russian Boris Spassky for delaying their world championship chess match.

The president of the International Chess Federation admitted he was in the wrong, too, and said he would ask for a one-week postponement. Dr. Max Euwe, Federation Chief, told reporters that he would ask for another postponement and he agreed to Soviet demands to condemn Fischer's behavior and admitted that he violated Chess Federation rules in allowing two earlier postponements. "It would damage Spassky, who is very upset by what has happened in the last few days, if he was forced to play Thursday," Euwe said in announcing that he would seek another delay in the 24-game Euwe also said he might even suggest an entirely new match schedule calling for between 12 and 18 games now and the rest later in the year because of a possible conflict with the chess Olympics beginning Sept. 17 in Skopje, Yugoslavia.

The Russians also have demanded that Fischer the first game of the match to Spassky because of the American's failure to show up for the official opening of the match Sunday. Boris Spassky Bobby Fischer Still working up to th first move However, the Russians indicated the demand might be just a formality. Euwe said the Russians made their demand in a cable citing Paragraph 5 of the agreement for the match. Ia it, both sides agreed that a player still (Continued on page 25, coL 1) 5.X s'vRWn mm 0 1 -Inl)tt4(iiuid' Csisfi By NORMA ABRAMS and WILLIAM FEDERICI The first results of a joint federal-city probe into corruption in the criminal justice system were revealed yesterday with the federal indictment of a prominent criminal lawyer, a city detective and a private investigator. The three, attorney Edward A.

Rosner, 36, detective Nicholas Lamattina, 39, and private eye Nicholas De-Stefano, 38, were accused of "trying to buy secret grand jury testimony about a narcotics investigation." Lamattina, a former narcotics cop, is now assigned to the burglary squad. 11 il 7 VU secret missions for the government instead of "prematurely using him as a witness in public hearings." In the conspiracy case revealed yesterday, Leouci posed as a cor Credited with a major part in the indictment 4, which charge conspiracy, obstructing justice, bribery of a public official and unlawful removal of government records, ere the Knapp Commission that probed police corruption and undercover Detective Robert Leuci. U.S. Attorney Whitney North Seymour Jr. said that the commission let Leuci undertake rupt cop who had friends in the U.S.

attorney's office who could be bribed. It was alleged that, with the U.S. attorney knowl edge, the baby-faced Leuci re NEWS photo by Joe Licata U.S. Attorney Whitney North Seymour Jr. announces indictments.

At right is Police Commissioner Patrick Murphy. ceived $2,800 to produce the se- States An 13ib Ummm BusilA Strike By MICHAEL PATTERSON The citywide construction workers' strike gained momentum yesterday, drastically reducing activity at $2 billion worth" of building projects and spreading to parts of Nassau and Westchester counties. Pi ill ill. cret testimony of several government witnesses in a pending narcotics case. Leuci had been introduced to the lawyer and private eye by Lamattina as "someone who could be trusted." According to the indictments, Rosner and DeStefano "specified the documents and information Leuci was to obtain." "We Were Masterminding" Document obtained during the 15-month probe were turned over to them but U.S.

Attorney Seymour said the security of his office was not breached. "Quite the contrary," he said, "we were The material requested by the accused allegedly involved Rosner and Destafano with a New York bail bondsman accused of receiving $120,000 to fix a Queens narcotics prosecution in 1970. The bondsman was cleared and so were Rosner and Destefano, who had been accused of conspiring to commit perjury in th case. The government is seeking to reopen the case and a hearing is scheduled in the U.S. Court of Appeals on Friday.

The case had been thrown out vhn an important government tvftness disappeared. The witness Is now in custody. Leuci Under Gaard Yesterday's federal action, announced by Seymour and Police Commissioner Murphy at 26 Federal Plza, came only two weeks after Leuci's role in the federal probe became public The 32-year-old Leuci, who has risked his life several times in the long investigation, has been placed under round-the-clock protection. He has made several appearances before the federal grand jury that was hearing cases developed by the joint special police force and agents from the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs. At least 15 cops, an assistant prosecutor, four lawyer, several bail bondsmen and several hoodlums have been linked to the corruption probe, 1 Vi.

The number of unions on strike rose to 13 as Local 1078 of the glaziers, whose members have not walkout was felt yesterday as the long holiday weekend ended. At the $650 million World Trade struck in 52 years, waiKea on ine job. With two thirds of the city's sjs ji i Center, the normal work force shrank to less than 500, a spokesman for the employers said. Private Building Hit At 55 Waters St, site of the largest privately sponsored office building in the world, the crew numbered less than 300 instead of the normal 870 men, the spokesman said. Fred Munder, president of the employer's association, blamed the walkout on what he termed excessive wage demands ranging from 10Ct to 15: and the union's resistance to the use of "labor-saving devices" and prefabricated equipment.

The New York Building and Construction Trades Council representing the unions, declined tiB comment. 1 100,000 construction workers on strike, coupled with a walkout by members of teamsters Local 282, who deliver supplies to construction sites, a spokesman for the contractors predicted a complete shutdown "within one to two weeks." Other Striking Unions Other unions on strike included those representing carpenters, cement and concrete workers, cement masons, roofers, elevator constructors, metallic lathers, sheet metal workers, steamfitters and operating engineers. In the absence of picketing, a tradition in the construction industry, 15' trades continued to work while negotiations with the Building Trades Employers Association continued, The first iuU tfeatftf NEWS photo by Cttra Ross There's not much doing it Marlborough House, 35-story luxury "apartment building under constructional 25 JltOli Sit.j.

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