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Daily News from New York, New York • 39

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Daily Newsi
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New York, New York
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Cll DAILY NEWS, SATURDAY, JULY 1, 1972 Oni-ft InMinfl1- I5tmii7ml-'-- nim --ilmnnimfl-ninirni Oiiitaf? uur UUU UWMUU uuu uwuuuuuuuu.uu vsuuuvu By KEITH MOORE The city's public school system largest in the nation with more than 900 schools began summer vacation yesterday. The 1.1 million students will return Sept. 11. her brother, Kin Ting Tang, vacate Eva Hassan, Pingyi Tang and At the same time, the Board I of Education, which elects president each year, was mulling candidates for the post, which is to be filled by Wednesday. Lachman Declines Seymour Lachman, Brooklyn representative of the board, who is vice president and who would have been in line to succeed Isaiah Robinson, declined the presidency on Thursday, saying that his work as director of the American Jewish Committee foreign affairs department would prevent him from giving full attention to the school post.

His announcement, according to some observers on the central board, leaves the position open to the incumbent, Robinson, or Joseph Monserrat, who was the board's first president under the 1969 decentralization law. In the meantime, many students will begin summer activi- fund and the inconvenience caused to firms scheduled to move into new offices. Carpenters Union The carpenters' union was expected to continue to bargain, with money items still unresolved in their otherwise completed agreement. Expected to stay on the job at least through the end of the week were asbestos workers, boiler-makers, concrete workers, cement masons, structural iron workers, riggers and machinery movers. The plasterers and bricklayers' helpers have already agreed on contracts with wage provisions well above the Pay Board's 5.5 guideline.

thdt Striking PJlidnigk in Building Crisis ties under various programs conducted by the central board. Area of Doubt Many of the programs, which include remedial study, summer games, camping, arts and crafts, and cultural enrichment programs, get under way July 5. A board spokesman noted that there was doubt about activities of the 31 school districts. A Brooklyn Supreme Court stay order earlier this week temporarily blocked the central board from allocating about $660 million in state urban educational funds and city tax funds to the districts. In that court case, Brooklyn Assemblyman Samuel Wright, who is president of School Board 23, maintained that the central board's allocation formula would fund his district at a level lower than what is needed in the area.

The temporary stay order, issued toy Supreme Court Justice Murray Pearlman, prohibited tha central board from disbursing the funds today, as scheduled. Hearings will be held on the matter next Thursday. Latin Politico Loses 100G in A Theft Here Burglars slipped into the posh Berkshire Hotel suite of a former Venezuelan finance minister and stole more than $100,000 worth of jewelry, police reported yesterday. The theft was reported early yesterday by the visitor, Pedro Tinoco, a banker who is seeking the presidency of Venezuela. Tinoco said that his wife, Carmen, found that her jewelry was missing from a vanity case yesterday but believed that the burglary had taken place while she and her two daughters attended a concert Thursday night.

Tinoco was out of town at the time. Disputes Value Detectives reported that at By MICHAEL PATTERSON Seven unions representing nearly 40 of the city's were set to strike at 12:01 a.m. today after, a breakoff in Amnony Casaie for summer. PS Oliver 100,000 construction workers negotiations with the Build- position to proposed work rule changes and the use of automated equipment at construction sites, according to the employers. "It is evident to us," said H.

Earl Fullilove, president of the employers association "that the locals in this city are determined to retain their autonomous and dictatorial positions." The main public impact of a sustained construction strike would take the form of an economic slump, reduced tax revenues, costly payouts from the state unemployment insurance NEWS photo by ing Trades Employers Association. The strike, which would have its first real impact Wednesday morning in view of the long, holiday weekend, threatened to spread to other trades as well" as. to the Teamsters, who deliver materials to construction sites. The dispute i Ives three locals of the Operating Engineers Union, Local 46 of the Lathers Union, Local 28 of the Sheet Metal Workers Union; Local 638 of the Steamfitters Union and Local 1 of the Elevator Constructors Union. WrldXhessMe 7 Puts MMy in Corner From Combined Dispatches Temperamental American chess genius Bobby Fischer may be checkmated as a challenger for the world title if he fails to appear Sunday for his opening match against Soviet World champion Boris Snassky, the president of the World Chess Federation said yesterday.

As last-ditch negotiations with Teamsters Local 282 continued, stockpiles of construction supplies were hoisted to the upper levels of various building sites in anticipation of a walkout. Wages, Work Rule Changes The strike, which was described as a "near certainty" by a spokesman for the -employers, could severely cripple some $2 billion in construction projects around the, city'. The key issues centered on wage increase demands ranging from 10 to 15 and strong union op- And Tass got into the act yesterday by saying in a dispatch from Moscow that Fischer was motivated by a "disgusting spirit of gain." Legal Action Possible Euwe said that he did not expect the Icelandic Chess Federation to meet Fischer's latest demand. He added that the federation would have grounds for legal action against the Brooklyn-born challenger if he fails to show Sunday. The Icelanders say they have already spent $200,000 on preparations for the match.

They say if they meet Fischer's they won't even break even. The gate receipts are expected to be considerable. Matches will be played in sports palace with seats pegged at $5 each. The series is expected to last six months. Fischer has been waging an unrelenting campaign to put chess players in a league with the Joe Namaths and Hank Aarons.

Was Bobby Nasfy To a Phone Caller? Bobby Fischer, whose moves baffle opponents when he is playing chess and everyone else, when jp I i least 10 pieces of jewelry had been stolen. Tinoco, 45, declined to give an estimate on the missing jewelry, but said he did not believe the value was as high as police reported. Detectives said that there were no signs of forced entry into the two-bedroom suite on the 19th floor and that the vanity case was the only article disturbed. The thieves knew exactly what they were looking for, police believe. Tinoco is here at the invitation of American executives for conferences on investments in Latin America.

He had been finance minister of Venezuela until April. Takes a Nose Out of Pot San Francisco, June 30 (AP) A policeman can't sniff a man's beard and arrest him on a drug charge because he smelled marijuana, an appeals court has ruled. The State Court of Appeal overturned yesterday the conviction of Phillip Vosburg, 20, of Foster City, who was arrested a year ago on charges of possessing marijuana. In the unanimous ruling, the court said that although Ihe arresting officer said he smelled marijuana by sniffing Vosburg's beard, it was "not incompatible with the odor having been innocently acquired." Citing the "rules of the game, federation head Max Euwe said, in Hamburg, Germany, that Fisher stands to lose his right to play for the world title, this time and "perhaps forever." Fisher, 29, who reportedly was at a doctor's home in Douglaston, Queens, must be in Reykjavik, Iceland, Sunday to play Spassky. He has refused to go thus far reportedly because he is demanding, a cut of the gate in addition to his share of the $125,000 prize money and 20 of all television and film rights.

Skips Another Flight He almost got off the ground Thursday night but balked when reporters began to question him at Kennedy Airport. There was another flight scheduled for Iceland last night but in the past Fischer has refused to fly between sundown Friday and sundown Saturday the Church of God sabbath. Yesterday, Fischer's attorney, Andrew Davis, arrived in Reykjavik to negotiate chess master's demand for 30 of the gate receipts. Davis met members of the Icelandic Chess Federation, whose president, Gutmunder Thoraris-son, spent most of the night in telephone conversations with Fischer's representatives in the United States. Associated Press photo Bobby Fischer pushes past admirers and away from reporters at JFK Airport before he disappeared after canceling passage.

he isn't, reportedly stayed at the Yale Club on Wednesday and Thursday and at a friend's home in Douglaston, Queens, yesterday. When a reporter telephoned the Douglaston home yesterday and asked a friendly lady if Bobby i -i was there, she hesitated and then a harsh male voice barked: "What the hell do you want?" The voice denied it was Bobby, but it sounded like Bobby, who has a record of being sullen, 1 high-strung and a prima donna..

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