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1 A The VANCOUVER SUN: July 6, 1972 Penitent Fischer apologizes, chess match starts Sunday By STEPHEN BROEMNG REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) Bobby Fischer made a full and penitent apology to Boris Spassky today, and organizers of the world chess championship match said the two would meet for their first game Sunday night. The organizers said it had been agreed in principle to hold the drawing tonight to determine which player would have the white pieces and with them the first move. The American player, in a letter delivered by hand this morning to the world chess champion from the Soviet Union, apologized for his "disrespectful behavior." Fischer, whose delayed arrival doubled the prize money for both him and Spassky but also started an avalanche of confusion, asked the Russian to "accept my sincerest apology." "I simply became carried away by my petty dispute over money with the Icelandic chess organizers," he wrote. The written apology from the American challenger was one of the chief conditions posed by the Russians before Spassky would sit down at the chess board with Fischer. Fischer told Spassky: "I have offended you and your country, the Soviet Union, where chess has a prestigious position." The temperamental American also apologized to Dr.

Max Euwe, president of the International Chess Federation, the Icelanders, "the thousands of fans around the world and especially to the millions of fans and the many friends I have in the United States." However, Fischer brushed aside a demand from the Soviet Chess Federation that he forfeit the first match because of his tardy arrival. He said this "would place me at a tremendous handicap" and he didn't believe the "world's champion desires such an advantage in order to play me." "I know you to be a sportsman and a gentleman, and I am looking forward to some exciting chess games with you," Fischer concluded. Earlier Euwe had met other demands the Russians made of him and suggested that the start of the match be delayed further. Euwe said he didn't penalize Fischer for his late arrival in Iceland because the American challenger is "living in another world." He said Spassky was "very upset" and that he would like to give him another week before the first game. Euwe also admitted he had violated the rules in allowing two previous postponements in the start of the match.

He promised strict rule enforcement in the future. The winner is to get $231,250 and the loser $168,750, the highest amounts ever paid in chess. The original purse was $125,000, with the winner taking five-eighths and the loser the remainder. But Fischer's holdout brought a $125,000 contribution from London banker and chess enthusiast James D. Slater to double the purse.

Each player also gets $75,000 from the television and film rights. COURTEOUS AND COOL Boris charms Icelanders AP Wlrephoto ROBERT KENNEDY photo mural dominates Miami Beach convention scene GRAVEL Demonstrators get camping rights man in sneakers participated. It nullified the council's 5 2 vote against the camp permit 11 days ago. "I'm very pleased with the decision," said Rev. Ralph David Abernathy of the South- from the Democratic national convention.

The 4-2 vote came after nearly nine hours of often heated debate in which everyone from a young homosexual in drag clothing to an elderly MIAMI BEACH (TPS) Despite opposition from jittery senior citizens, the city council reversed itself Wednesday and said demonstrators could camp in a municipal park just three blocks Democrats request rare appeal By JOE ALEX MORRIS REYKJAVIK, Iceland (TPS) "We like Americans here, not Russians," the pretty telephone operator said. "But we don't like your Mr. Fischer. We will be rooting for Spassky." For many Icelanders, Bobby Fischer has become the latest version of the streo-tvped travelling American. The 29-year-old challenger for the world chess crown and his team of advisers have been collecting bad publicity ever since Fischer missed his first plane to Iceland a week ago.

Fischer has done It with his obstinate and to some arrogant demands for more money. His helpers have done their bit with whimsy, surliness and evasion. In contrast, the Russian Boris Spassky has been a real ail-American guy. He plays tennis, talks to the press and drives around in a Ford Bronco, a Jeep-type vehicle. He built himself a sympathetic public here while Fischer sulked in New York.

Monday night he received an enthusiastic ovation when he attended a soccer match and mer told the newspaper Tim-inn Wednesday that 80 per cent of the Icelanders want Fischer to win. Nothing would appear to be further from the truth: in countless conversations since Bobby's first abortive attempt to fly here was beaten back by photographers in New York, I have yet to find one Icelander sympathetic to him. The Soviet champion is something of an outsider. He is not a member of the Communist Party, and drives about the streets of Moscow in a Volvo. Men at the top can get away with this in the Soviet Union.

But Spassky is under considerable pressure to beat Fischer, and his whole way of life could be influenced by whether he retains his crown or not. Spassky has not played well recently, and his international rating is now lower than Fischer's. Despite this, he has kept his courteous cool during trying days while Bobby Fischer remained closeted in New York and his representatives here bumbled from one disaster to another. sat next to the Icelandic president. A great deal of this is gut reaction, and perhaps unfair to Fischer.

Four years ago, a chess world championship win was worth very little. The pot for this match is now $250,000, plus 60 per cent of television and film rights. But, like the Olympic Games, the Fischer challenge has made chess a quasi-political affair. He is the first threat to Soviet domination in decades, and this championship match has taken on certain aspects of the big power struggle. Not that such considerations bother Bobby.

"He doesn't worry about such things," said Fred Cramer, an executive of the American Chess Federation. Fischer doesn't say anything to anyone, except perhaps to Life magazine which has a financial connection to the American challenger. But Cramer, a retired lighting engineer from Milwaukee, more than makes up for Bobby's silence. In the latest example Cra Seeks place on ticket WASHINGTON (AP) -Senator Mike Gravel announced today he would seek the Democratic vice-presidential nomination at the national convention in Miami Beach next week. The Alaskan told reporters he would give delegates an opportunity to select the vice-presidential nominee in an open contest instead of "rubber stamping" the presidential nominee's choice.

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