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Pacific Daily News from Agana Heights, Guam • 1

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aWIRK3JMW33KG 1 St Chess Kings: Will They? Won't They? i the session saying the cameras distracted him Marshal Said new evidence was being prepared that might stave off cancellation of the match He say what the evidence was Fred Cramer a vice president of the US Chess Federation walked out of a stormy committee meeting hi protest and said Russians are sabotaging the match If there is no more play they have torpedoed it by insisting on inserting inflamatory statements and anti-Fischer propaganda into the commfttee Cramer submitted a minority report calling for the cancellation of the second game which Spassky won on default when Fischer refused to turn up Daily News Wires REYKJAVIK Boris Spassky-fished for salmon and Bobby Fischer kept his Sabbath Saturday as chess officials scrambled to save the worlckchampionship After talks with officials the International and Icelandic chess federations lawyer Paul Marshal announced the American challenger had withdrawn his objection JLo the presence of -movie cameras in the playing hall long as they blow his Marshal also asked the officials to reconsider their decision to uphold the referee in declaring a forfeit because Fischer missed the second of the 24-game series Thursday Fischer boycotted failure to show gave Spassky a 2-0 lead Spassky needs 1 2 points to retain the title Fischer 12Vi Each game won counts a point A draw is half a point Fischer is refusing to play game No 3 Sunday (Monday Guam time) unless the point the Russian gained by default is scratched from the score sheet The deadlock seemed unbreakable but attorneys and his second the Rev William Lombardy were trying to find a way out One official connected with the International Chess Federation-FIDE-said he thought it was (Continued on page 16) Weather FWCJTWC twenty-four hour forecast for Guam ROti and Saipan commencing at am Partly cloudy to occasionally cloudy with widely scattered sftower activity See winds seas and tides on page 2 ON GUAM WHERE AMERICA'S DAY BEGINS Ill NO 167 AGANA GUAM MONDAY JULY 17 1972 TEN CENTS Qofjgfg! 1 I 1 TOKYO -North Vietnam claimed yesterday that its armed forces shot down a US B52 Stratfortress last Thursday Ther North Vietnam News Agency in a broadcast monitored in Tokyo said the big eight-engined jetbomber was brought down in the Vinh Linh area It said the downing of the B52 increased to 3746 the number of American warplanes shot down in North Vietnam The US Command in Saigon said the incident happen PUBLISHED VOL Matthias Reith was further away from the road and received only a glancing blow Fields said The two victims were transported by ambulance to Naval Hospital where Schuringa was pronounced dead on arrival at 2:20 am by Lt Clark MD Kretschmann suffered a broken arm Fields said Wirsching the driver was arrested by Fields and charged with drunken driving and involuntary manslaughter He was confined at the Agana lock-up and later released with instruction to appear in court July 26 SAN CLEMENTE Calif (AP) Secretary of State William Rogers held open Saturday the possibility of new secret Vietnam peace talks and said are some slight in latest proposals that us some Emerging from an hour-long meeting with President Nixon Rogers told newsmen on the lawn of the Western White House that he did not want to raise premature hopes of progress toward ending the war He would not comment directly on the statement Saturday by a chief North Vietnamese negotiator Le Due Tho that he is ready to hold more private talks with Presidential' adviser Henry Kissinger if Kis JESSUP Md (AP) At least six persons were injured last night when a disturbance broke out at the Maryland House of Corrections authorities said Prison officials said about 250 inmates stormed a recreation yard fence in an apparent escape attempt Guards atop two towers at the 1500-inmate maximum security facility then opened fire on the inmates officials said forcing the prisoners inside a recreation room and throughout the west blocs of the prison The inmates then set fire to an administrative section which AT THE CLIFF in East Agana directly below the Bayview Baptist Church in Maite is what is left of this Rambler sedan A policeman said a pushed the car down the cliff yesterday morning while its owner was attending service in the church (Daily News Photo by Kinny Leon-Guerrero) around-the-world tour he completed on Wednesday He said he found in the countries he visited that Nixon is as the world leader in the cause for (Continued on page 1 6) i Baltimore said four inmates and two guards were received at the emergency room At least two inmates were admitted suffering from gunshot wounds the hospital said The disturbance broke out while prisoners were involved in after-dinner recreational activities 7 Letter From Gachong Dear Mr Editor: Now that McGovern has a running mate the big question is whether Nixon will keep his bitter half singer has to discuss But Rogers said the United States is to have any kind of diplomatic that holds out hope for peace Rogers came to California to report to Nixon on the 1 1 -nation contained the main prison communications center Later state police gained control of a west wing of the but one guard was still JSeing held hostage Sporadic gunfire which prison' officials said came from the inmates kept guards and responding police away from the area and impeded fire fighting efforts Tear gas was used and fumes were seen in the rural wooded area nearby University Hospital officials in A Dream Of Golfing Glory Slips Away Full report page 24 Seabee Hit Walking Along Drive Killed Edward Schuringa a Seabee attached to unit MCB-40 was killed Saturday when struck by an automobile Schuringa was walking with a-companion on the seaward shoulder of Marine Drive' near the Kalakua River inAsan some' time after midnight when they were struck by a west-bound Volkswagen driven by Charles Wirsching of Naval Magazine Guam Patrolman Janies Fields said Fields who investigated said the impact threwSchuringa over the bridge wall into the river Schuringa companion Herbert Kretschmann a German engineer attached with the MS 5 x- irft8s.

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