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North Adams Transcript from North Adams, Massachusetts • 7

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r.Iised reaction 4 Rabbi gets bomb threats The Transcript, July 5, 1972 7 Championship set to begin on Thursday iff after sheltering Yippies MIAMI BEACH, Fla. AP) A rabbi people spread their sleeoins bass in the who let young people gathering for social hall after concern mounted that convention protests sleep at iiisthey: might spark a confrontation with- synagogue says he received telephone police by camping in a public park. Tuesday. The Icelandic Chess Federation had rejected his demand for 30 per cent of the gate receipts, but he agreed to come after a London investment banker doubled the $125,000 purse which he and Spassky will divide; The 29-year-old American grandmaster was resting from the overnight flight in a-guarded villa at the edge of town when Spassky counterattacked in the holdout The 35-year-oloVSoviet champion react REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) The world championship chesff match between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky now is scheduled to start Thursday afternoon following another psot-ponement, this one demanded by the Soviet champion. After holding out for more money and' getting the American challenger came to Iceland for the postponed opening match Tuesday.

But Spassky walked out of the noon drawing to decide who would move first because Fischer was a prepared statement calling tne not present. He had sent his second, a American's conduct insulting and in- bomb threats an? complaints his action would depress neighborhood property1 values. Rabbi Meyer. Abramowitz allowed about two dozen Yippies to spend the last two nights in the. social hall of Temple Monorah at the request of Police Rocky Pomerance.

The Rabbi sent his secretary home early Tuesday and "answered the telephone himself for four hours. "The calls included threats to bomb the building and those from people incensed that 1 had turned the building over to people they felt were irresponsible and dangerous," Abramowitz said. "I don't fear these kids, I don't hate them. I appreciate their involvement lir something we all share American democracy," Abramowitz said. "If there is to be any hope of avoiding "another Chicago, we must avoid hostility at this early stage," he added.

The people who stayed at the synagogue spent most of both nights talking about why they were there and what they were going to do. There was' fairly constant guitar strumming, some free food and frequent clean-up calls. "This house was loaned by friends. NO DOPE," said a message chalked on a blackboard. Roman Catholic priest.

tolerable. It said Fischer, by refusing to appear at the opening ceremony, last weekend, had insulted Spassky per' sonally and the Soviet Chess Federation and had jeopardized his right to play for the title. The statement demanded that Fischer be punished. Officials announced a new 48-hour postponement of the opener, originally scheduled for last Sunday. They hoped both players would be ready to meet on Thursday.

-i Fischer arrived in Reykjavik early ''The reaction ranged irom that kind of hostility to positive comments from 1 1 people who felt it was time we finally did QOVGrnOr something for these kids." i About 75 per cent of the calls were tO I6QV6 nOSpltQl critical, Abramowitz said. btKKbHIKt rLAA I Two local landlords paid nun a visit, the rabbi said, and complained that he was destroying property values and ruiningfa good neighborhood. Temple Monorah is located a dozen blocks north of the oceanfront resort hotels in an area of two-story apartment buildings where people spend the evenings oh the front porch or balcony. While leaders of the congregation approved of his action, Abramowitz said some members complained that he should not have acted without consulting the congregation and said he was endangering their safety. Abramowitz agreed to jet the young HOUSTON, Tex.

(AP) Doctors at Methodist Hospital have advised Kentucky Gov. Wendell Ford that he will be discharged Thursday. Aruude to the governor said Ford will leave Houston the same day to fly to Fort Lauderdale, to join the Kentucky delegation to the Democratic National Convention. Ford underwent surgery June 28 to replace a weakened threeinch section of the main artery in his abdominal cavity with a piece of dacron tube. The governor is "in great spirits and feeling very aide said men's dept.

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