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Sunday, March 26, 1972 1 8 Sarda Cruz Srntlnrl U.S. Information Agency Continues To Promote American Way Of Life if fjl Bobby Fischer Keeps To Himself To Prepare For Chess Title Match For vears there have been WASHINGTON (AP) While 46-year-old Frank Shakespeare rumors USIA. too, Is linked Radio Liberty and Radio Free who next week must go be with CIA. Europe fight for survival in Congress, this country's third But Shakespeare has pushed hard to give USIA a higher position in the policy pecking order, specifically to get it back on the National Security Council from which President Nixon excluded it three years ago in a Questioned by Fulbright on possible links with CIA at a fore a skeptical Senate Foreign Relations Committee to defend his budget requests. "A major world power, which and largest propaganda agency 1970 hearing, a uma oincer GROSSINGER, N.Y.

(AP) is alive and busy, selling the American Way of Life from 1776 Pennsylvania Avenue and we are in this moment in his said any comment would have to come "in executive session Bobby Fischer, America hope tory, must have a mechanism for the world chess champion 1 i li a half a dozen other Washing streamlining effort. by which it attempts to commu from appropriate other offi cials." ship, rushed into the vast, ton buildings. nicate what it stands for to brightly lit dining room at The U.S. Information Agency people throughout the world, is a giant communal enterprise. But Bobby remains a solitary figure," says a hotel representative.

Solitude can be hard to find in this active, noisy hotel, exuding "fun-time frolic and joie de vivre." A long-time meeting place for celebrities, potentates and politicians, it caters to conventions and arranges special Grossinger's, a giant resort Even privately, USIA officials are unanimous in denying I VjJf Jr Iff the ex-television executive said is, in fact, so busy that in these "If you are going to effectively promulgate a program on a worldwide basis it is necessary to have the deepest possible understanding of the nuances," days of federal belt-tightening any link with the CIA. In past years, USIA has had it is asking Congress for more little trouble obtaining its budg "Look," commented one vounc officer, "the CIA is the money, not less. et requests from Congress be Shakespeare in an Interview USIA wants $198 million for beat run aeencv in town. If cause the law required a to ap tucked away in the Catskills. He's been ensconsed for three weeks at the hotel, a sprawling cluster of recreational facilities.

Ping Pong tables, pin ball machines, Pepsi dispensers, indoor miniature golf courses, swimming pool, ski slope and convention rooms. fiscal 1973, a $2 million in singles weekends. said. Because Shapcspeare was they rain us we wouldn't be so pear only before generally sympathetic appropriations com crease, to continue cranking But Fischer finds solitude, fouled up." While there is some talk on and is an outspoken anti-Com mittees. out a stream of books, maga threading his way through a munist, there was open specu zines, pamphlets, films, radio Under a recent legislative group of commercial photogra Capitol Hill of doing away with USIA entirely, serious debate lation in Washington that USIA reorganization act, however, broadcasts, TV programs and phers, with their blue, con At age 29, he's poised for a crack at the world title in to maintain outposts in such re USIA must appear for the first centers on the agency size vention name tags.

They have gathered after dinner around (its 9.881 employes are more, would1 speak more stridently after he took over. The official line, however, has not grown perceptibly harder. time before Foreign Relations, headed by Sen. J. W.

Fulbright. mote spots as Luluabourg in the Republic of Zaire and Ma-seruin Lesotho. The millions of words and USIA officials are under according to a former USIA official, than those employed full-time on propaganda by all oth "Mr. Shakespeare Is as firm standably nervous. The Arkansas Democrat has just won the first round in a battle with er nations combined); its role pictures flowing daily through ly anti-Communist as he ever was," said one top ranking the grand piano to sing, "I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now." He walks by their exhibits of complex camera equipment and past the bar where guests are busy drinking Russian vodka.

When Fischer is more re chess, a goal since the beginning of his brilliant, but uneven, career. "What time is it?" he asked sitting down at a small table. He was pale and his eyes were darker looking than usual. His hair was damp and neatly combed. He wore a blue suit and black tie, printed with galloping red stallions.

in U.S. foreign policy, and the USIA's printers and trans tlie administration that could tone and quality of its product. mitters carry one continuous agency oilicial. But 1 think end government financing for message, chiefly to Iron Cur he more subtle than when he first came here. That's because "USIA has been a puzzle to policy makers ever since it began back in World War II, tain countries: he has traveled and has a bet No matter how turbulent 111 3 laxed, he's good company- ter understanding of world af American society may seem because of riots, murders, as Radio Liberty and Radio Free Euorpe which have been beaming propaganda to the Soviet Union and its East European satellites since the peak of the Cold War.

"These radios should be giv said one 28-year-old employe "Hell, its had half a dozen different names. He'd made the 8 p.m. diner quick, funny and interested in other people. But this weekend, sassinations, plots and bomb he wasn't giving interviews. "Everything this agency does ings, life in the United States is is based on the idea we ve got better than anywhere else.

He mostly stays in his room, saying in a soft voice, "I gotta deadline by one minute. "He usually comes flying in, the last person in the dining room. He's always on the run," said the dining room hostess. If Fischer's running, it's partly from the tension. He chal Item: Although USIA report something the Zambians want.

Well, maybe they don't want study. I gotta study. en an opportunity to take their rightful place in the graveyard of Cold War relics, said Ful ed every known detail of last fall's Attica prison uprising coming title match against Russia's Boris Spaasky by playing table tennis at a Cat-skill Mountains' resort. (AP Wircphoto) Bobby Fischer, the U.S.'s hope for the world chess championship, takes a brief break in his grueling regimen of study for the forth Many hotel employes see him it." fairs. It was inevitable.

Shakespeare also went a long way toward improving strained agency morale by encouraging young officers to form a grievance committee which can see him at a moments notice. The consequence of that: A dearth of serious grievances. As for the agency's products, Bruce Herschensohn, head of the film service said: "We are trying to build a climate of respect for the United States and a climate of disrespect for bright who contends U.S. propaganda acts as an irritant, A veteran USIA employe who thinks the agency is too big as a loner withdrawn, non-talkative, absorbed in his work, but still polite. during which 40 convicts and hostages died, it managed in the course of a special series delaying arrival of Nixons "era of negotiation instead of over Voice of America to con said: "Look at this, we have a guy Lesotho, there is no way it can ence, like everything else he he won the U.S.

cham lenges Russian Boris Spaasky for the title in a grueling 24-game match, beginning June 22, in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, The international chess world has shown extraordinary inter confrontation. vey the impression even in does. The pool closes at 6:15. pionship at age 14. He asked the maitre 'hotel how much he should tip.

When left to decide for himself, he gave the man $100 and said to Fulbright was out of town what they do there. But I do prison life here is better. He waits until 6:05. He swims Today, Fischer is staying as and unavailable for comment For example, the VOA found know that whatever they do in three or four laps and leaves," est in this match. Some seven spread it around to the others.

Lesotho, thre is no way it can a California professor who said Americans invented modern in- But an aide, saying the committee was approaching the the guest of the hotel. If he remains in his room in the two-story Tudor-style cottage until He got $55 back. become important in world af Communist countries and un countries bid for it. Usually, there are only two or three bids. Prize money for the carceration which he describes "He's a gentle boy," says the hearings with an open mind, also said the senator could be fairs.

The most talked of alterna maitre June, he'll have the longest run as just locking people up and not locking them up and beat says life guard Eddie Torres. Fischer also is the last one out of the men's health club. "He's always in a corner, to himself," says Mike Farcus at the club, adding that Fischer less a film serves one of these purposes USIA doesn't use it." Under Herschensohn, the match is set at $138,500, with "If the conversation lags, he expected to remain consistent tive to abolishing USIA is re of any guest on record. 72 'i per cent to the winner. ing on them, too.

gets up and says See ya. He makes very few concessions to "I've met the greatest figure turning it to the State Department where most of its pro Fischer beat Tigran Petro- Citing a general easing of skaters in the world. Florence world tensions some in Con grams were lodged from 1946 to Chadwick trained here. I've can be a sore loser at table ten the social amenities, which is refreshing in this day," says a hotel employe. 1953.

with his stated desire to see a lowering of the U.S. profile overseas. The effort to scuttle the two radio stations began last year with disclosures in the Senate that they were being supported gress argue that hard-sell nis, slamming down his racket agenc yhas turned out films on Vice President Agnew, the "Silent Majority," and Honor America Day. It spent $250,000 on a Vietnam war documentary so blatantly one-sided that only propaganda no longer is neces State, indeed, would probably1 when he looses. His regimen is simple and sary, and USIA should be abol-.

known great golfers like Sam Snead. They were as dedicated as Bobby but they've had other interests," says Paul Grossi-nger, chief executive of the "It's usuallly 2 p.m. when he private. He does physical fit ished. like to have control over the agency, now legally bound only to listen to States policy guid-; One who does not is USIAs secretly by the Central In-, three of USIA's 106 posts would gets up," says Lillian Sterc, staff chambermaid.

"I knock sian, Russian ex-world champion, in the semifinals. If he beats Spaasky he will become the first non-Russian to hold the world title in 25 years and the first official American title holder. This is it. This is the big one for a man who's grown up obsessed with the complex moves of 32 chessmen around a checkered board. ness exercises in his room, but doesn't work out at the hotel chunky, boyish-looking ance.

1 telligence Agency. accept it. on the door at 1:30 and then sit health club. He swims but Grossinger Corp. Fischer does have other in terests.

He knows pop music usually when no one else is and wait on the stairs until he comes out He's polite and around. He's polite when guests He likes the Motown sound come to say hello but keeps to nice. And he's very good looking," she says, breaking into giggles. He's bought a camera. He reads news magazines, and has himself.

He says skiing is too much been know to buy Playboy. He Why did Fischer come to trouble, but he plays table ten Alt. Mt AHA. YWII A r- t. A i S.

Fischer usually dines alone in Grossinger's banquet hall, filled with family-size tables, fake flowers, joking conventioneers, asked how many girls were coming to the next singles Grossinger's? It's a scene from his younger days, for one thing. "This was the first hotel he nis, bowls and goes to the movies occasionally. He often enters the Olympic weekend, perhaps just out of families with sullen-looking curiosity. ever stayed at," says an em- teen-agers and bubbly children size indoor pool at the last Dlove. His mother.

Reeina Fis- hour. But for now his big goal is in pink crocheted outfits. "The whole theory of a hotel "He's got it down to a sci-jcher, brought him to the hotel keeping fit for the title. uildings, Too, Must Pie are neatly folded blankets, andj could not raise the money to re-on the cot. pair it.

So she found this apart- Two burners and the oven actjment. It was only going to be By JOHN BARBOUR The sign on the five-story, AP Newsfeatures Writer dirty heat-less, cold-water, NEW YORK (AP) Christ-1 brown-bricked, sad building mas is over but the decorations simPly. "Another site space heater. A small as a linseron. On Manhattan Island vacated Dy uroan iteio- shown is the Aztec model black cat perches on the open oven door to keep warm.

The old laciy in her old robe asks cation Co." Beneath is another, newer sign which says, "Not A Government Agency." That aft- off Vim 1 rr ht iac Vr roci ilf nf fa the elevators still play all the old familiar carols. The bright lights and happy windows vie for Macy's, Gimbels, Saks, Korvettes, all the old familiar places. temporary." For her, it was a place for her family to be all together. That is one of the reasons she doesn't want to move now. "We have l.ke a root here, you see, a racine." "Everybody was happy," she recalls of the old days.

"All the families go to the park. Every legislate fiat, lest someone) thfi ep quiet. Her son is think the company or the mo-NP the next room and he tn works late driving a New York At any decent apartment, theLrnmpnt agpnov Thp ritv has taxi- Sne has lived here for 35 condemned much of the rest of "C1 the block without benefit of four years ago she worked as a ci (me idressmaker. Now she collects under $100 a month bo cities change. Not justjin Socia Seurity.

It pays the body in the sheep meadow. Today all you see is baseball." When her great-grandchildren come to visit now she makes rent which she says is only doormen, the superintendents, the maintenance men are counting the holiday take, those tithes given by residents for small favors extended through the year. But not at 127 W. 67th Street, marked for demolition. The heavy antique doors without locks.

The mailboxes with more names than residents. The buz 7 1 Lmiiil Vtwtfr'tHMi mJk. f- i imrfc i )UD Oil $32 42 a month. Most of the people have left them apple doughnuts and new ioik, uui oiuuagu, lk-troit, Los Angeles, old neighborhoods fade and new ones emerge It is an accepted fact. Old bu'ldings must die that new buildings may be born.

Dig we must for a growing city. And this b'ock a squalid square of apple pie on the small four-burner stove, and for a while low buildings between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenues, there are children's voices in the halls again. But outside the 67th and 68th Streets. The zers that no longer work, nor skyscrapers cut off all but need to. The hall that smells rrr, igaunt houses like some stricken nil lull it.

I ty? i 0- slices of sunlight from the biii'dhg. Slie remembers her blind cieature, wear sheet metal shields on most of the win- She stands timidly in her urine dark and cold. Here, a tired old lady, her blue eyes rimmed with red. says only, "Christmas? We doorway. Behind her a cot, a dews A few have a hollow, gas stove, a refrigerator, a sholf of small ceramic animals, have no money for Christmas childhood in Chambery, France.

"We could see Mt. Blanc all day long." Now the horizon is shrinking. The block she lives on has become a canyon walled in by buildings. mascara look from some forgotten fire. All around the block the city, is rising up again, from its own And she won't give her name! a vase of artificial flowers Why rent when you can own for less? Envar presents the latest concept in country living: privacy, the clean air of Monterey Bay, nearby ocean and beaches and complete maintenance provided.

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