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rf ETC, DNESQAY, JULY, 3 Reykjavik, Iceland, July 4 (AP) Now it's Boris Spassky's turn to say I I A mJ no so the world chess championship is off again. tolerable. They protested Euwe'g The Russian titleholder launched his counterattack today with a stern protest, some sharp criticism, a walkout and a demand for a two-day postponement of the start of the match with American Bobby Fischer. Slater's donation was In addition to this. Each player also is to ret 30 of the $250,000 paid for television and movie rights to the match.

The Russians said today that Fischer had violated the rules of the match. They wanted an apology. Euwe reported they had some harsh words for him too. "I'm a bad boy," the 71-year-old Dutchman said with a smile. Spassky read his statement Fischer slept through it all, Bobby arrived in the morning decision to tolerate it.

When Fischer failed to appear Sunday, Euwe alowed him until noon today to show up in Reykjavik or forfeit his shot at Spassky. Fischer's refusal to come Sunday was based on a dispute with the organizers over money. The argument was settled yesterday when British financier James Slater offered to sweeten an already record pot with a donation jf $130,000. Fischer then said he would play. The original purse was Fischer comes, Spassky runs away." The Russians turned up in force at noon for what was to be a drawing of lots to decide who from what looked like an official document in Russian.

It created the impression that he was acting roni New York and went straight to bed to rest up for the first game, set for tonight. When Fischer woke up he found that the title series was put off until Thursday at the earliest. Originally it was to have begun last Sunday. Max Euwe, president of the International es Federation, said: "When Spassky is here, Fischer doesn't come. As soon as on Moscow's orders.

A dispatch by Tass said would play white, and have the first move, In the opening game. The Russians refused to draw with Fischer's second, a Catholic priest, the Rev. William Lom-bardy, and read a statement call Spassky had demanded that the $125,000, five-eighths, or $78,125, going to the winner and three-eighths, or $46,875, to the loser. Boris Spassky Now, it' a hia turn International Chess Federation take some punishing measures against Fischer but did not ing Fischer's delaying holdout in i Ulli'inillllillllllllllllinillllllllWIIWifNIIlin (DOH InlDOuD Bobby's fllste CfeCdOug Out specify what measures should be taken. Asked about the Tass report, Euwe said no formal request for punishment had been received.

"What should I do, put him in the corner?" he said. During the days of dispute and bad temper that preceded Fischer's arrival, Spassky had been the picture of courtesy and understanding. When approached by reporters, he had no bad words for Fischer, a man he respects as a chess player. All he would say was that "I came to play." There was another indication that Spassky's moves were being plotted in Moscow. After an attempt to come to terms with Fischer's people at a private meeting this afternoon, Spassky and his second, Yefim Geller, drove to the Soviet Embassy, presumably for consultations.

Fischer was in a new two-story villa on the edge of town, sound asleep in the back bedroom. Fred Cramer, a U.S. Chess Federation official, said, "I didn't want to upset Bobby's metabolism by waking him up." An American reaction to the pre-match "cold war" came from Col. Edmund B. Edmundson, executive director of the American Chess Federation, and one of the five members of the international federation's advisory board.

"If either Fischer or Spassky do not show up for the match tomorrow, the title should go to the other by default. And If Neither of them show up, the title should be declared vacant and they should start all over," said Edmundson. Brian Hulse (rating: 2202) thought that Bobby's money battle was just a legitimate pre-match ploy. "Bobby hasn't lost any of his followers as a chess player. He's still tops.

It's only those celebrity hangers-on that are drifting away. And they'll be back after he wins the title. "What I think is that Bobby just took a preopening gambit as a psych try on Spassky. Psychology is very important in chess. And, in a long match, as this one is, it might work." Chess expert Charles Welden agreed: "I like him.

I don't agree with everything. But I feel he has a right to do what he has. It might just work." Over in Greenwich Village's Washington Square the kind of little park where Bobby, then a sneaker-wearing 14-year-old prodigy from Erasmus High School, used to play 15 years ago the reaction was more anti-Bobby. "If we wanted to see a show," said a man in his 50s, removing his shirt but not his yellow tennis hat, "we could go to the theater. "I remember Bobby as a young boy, beating all the masters.

I used to pull for him. But now I think he stinks. All he wants is money. It's a damn shame." And Doug Price, a Brooklyn teacher who describes himself as a chess nut, said: "It reminds me of the Ali-Frazier fight. I think Fischer may have psyched himself out with all his boasting and predicting an easy victory.

If he hasn't, then I think he'll win even though I don't agree with his tactics. He signed an agreement and then he reneged. It's no different than breaking a contract." By DAVE HIRSHEY and WILLIAM McFADDEN Bobby Fischer, the chess grandmaster, is in danger of losing his followers, many of whom deplore his tactics in the current brouhaha in Iceland. But Fischer is still revered as the most masterful chess player the world has ever produced. That was some of the reaction that boiled up around town yesterday as Bobby waited, in Iceland at last, for his world championship match to begin with Russia's Boris Spassky.

Said Peter Stevens, a crack amateur who plays at the Marshall Chess Club, one of the major chess centers in the city: "Bobby is a very lucky guy. If it had not been for that millionaire Englishman and his pot-sweetener, I'm sure Bobby would just have painted himself out of the championship match. "Bobby's a first-class player and a second-class extortionist. His lawyers will probably sue me for saying that. You'll have to cover the trial." Two chess masters also aired their views at the Marshall club and all they could agree on was that Bobby is a chess genius.

Jeffrey Kastner, whose rating is 2283 (.400 in baseball), smoldered: "I think he's very unethical after all the trouble Iceland went to to set up the match. I think Bobby's a cad. And he is giving the United States, and chess, a bad name." 1 Bobby Fischer Giving chaaa bad namm? llviiimmjIMNIil.lnlHiUMillllllllllllllllllllllTO Leenie's C(in Bills RmmgeroupIem Wy MS. By JOSEPH FRIED Staff Correspondent of The News Phu Bai, South Vietnam, July 4 The romance of Steve Menta and Leenie cleared another hurdle today as her brother gave his blessing to her departure for the United States and wedding I bells. The big decision came after a 'feast tendered in the couple's honor by Leenie's brother, Thai Tang Minh, a 32-year-old Vietnamese army sergeant.

The meal was enlivened when against his better judgment, Steve agreed to season his food with nuoc mam, with Steve or standing by her plintered family. After Steve, 24, found his missing fiancee in Da Nang last Sunday, the couple talked it over and Leenie said she wanted to seek her brother's guidance. So despite Communist shell-ings in the area, Steve and Leenie flew to Phu Bai where Minh is stationed. When they got to Phu Bai, the couple hitched a ride to Minh's outfit and minutes later he rolled up in an army truck, back from nearby Hue. Minh and Steve, pals when Steve served with the U.S.

army near the Demilitarized Zone, embraced. But Minh's initial reaction to his sister's departure was mingled with reluc I a SvV A on would not hasten the release of her father. He also promised Leenie could return to South Vietnam and see her father once Steve has saved up enough money. Then adding a clincher, Steve pointed out that the bank which employs him, Chase-Manhattan, maintains two branches in South Vietnam. Possibly at some stage, he said, an opening might develop and the couple could return for a stay.

One Condition Though the prospect of his sister's departure saddened him, Minh, agreed. Recounting the discussion, Steve said: "He (Minh) made one condition. If I grew tired of Leenie I would send her back, letting Minh know ahead of time so that he could pick her up in Saigon." The three spent the night sleeping in Minh's truck parked inside the Phu Bai combat base, Steve at one end, Leenie at the other and brother Minh in the the searing fish sauce which is the mainstay of the Vietnamese cuisine. 'c A Laugh, A Thaw Steve promptly burst into hiccups which produced a roar of good- natured laughter from Leenie, whose real name is Thai Thi Thiet, brother Minh and several Vietnamese guests. One fetched tea and Steve returned to normal.

The laughs punctured an underlying melancholy mood as Minh, now the senior member of Leenie's family, mulled over a decision that would take his sister to a strange land, 10,000 miles away. Their mother had died last year and the father was trapped in Communist-held Quang Tri Province. tance. They decided to talk it over after dinner. Because Minh is with a combat outfit, the dinner setting was improvised.

The back of his big army truck served as dining room. Everything was makeshift except the menu which proved elaborate. When the meal ended and the guests departed Steve, Leenie and Minh tackled the problem. Steve Leenie, 21, was torn between NEWS photo by Ln Rudakewvch via DPI Cablophoto Steve Menta and Leenie with her brother. Thai Taaf Iffcab.

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