The Charlotte Observer from Charlotte, North Carolina • 3

THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER Fri July 7 1972 3A Fischer Sends Spassky Contrite Note Match Set IF YOU WANT REALLY LOW AND REALLY FULL FLAVOR THEN LUCKY TEN IS REALLY FOR YOU accept my sincerest apology for my disrespectful behavior in not attending the opening ceremony I simply became carried away by my petty dispute over money with the Icelandic chess organizers "I have offended you and your country the Soviet Union where chess has a prestigious Fischer said Fischer also asked Spassky to withdraw the demand that he forfeit the first game He said such a move would me at a tremendous handicap" and he believe world champion desires such an advantage in order to play mmm (i ntfS? By IAN WESTERGREN United Press International REYKJAVIK Iceland -Bobby Fischer apologized in writing to Boris Spassky Thursday for his and his dispute over clearing the way for the start of the 24-game $250000 world championship chess match Fischer a 29-yearold chess genius from Brooklyn and Spassky the 35-year-old world titleholder from Russia were to meet face-to-face for the first time Thursday night to draw lots to see who would get the first move The match was originally scheduled to start last Sunday but was postponed until Tuesday while Fischer bargained for more money It was postponed a second time after Spassky protested absence and demanded an apology The Russian Chess Federation also demanded Fischer be ordered to forfeit the first game because he was absent for the opening ceremony Fischer spent three hours from 2 am to 5 am drawing up his letter of apology and made sure it was personally delivered to Spassky IRS Soaks Illegal Drug Chiefs By WILLIAM VANCE Obiervr Washington Bureau WASHINGTON The so- called untouchables In the narcotics business high-level financiers and smugglers are being touched by Uncle Sam for $54 million in federal taxes and penalties Treasury officials said Thursday that the government has collected more than million of that bill from illicit drug traffickers in 40 states during the past year Eugene Rossides the Treasury law en-forcement boss said the Treasury-IRS program is aimed primarily at middle and upper-echelon drug figures who frequently insulated by from direct narcotics dealing my judgment this (tax enforcement) is probably the only way you can get at them the only way to interfere with their Rossides said He said 410 Treasury agents under the direction of IRS Commissioner Johnnie Walters are investigating 793 major narcotics targets in 40 states and the District of Columbia In addition 565 traffickers from suppliers to street are under tax surveillance he said Rossides noted that in 12 months the program has become self-sustaining Congress appropriated $75 million to get it started Taxes and pen-' alties already collected exceed that figure by $1 million are now using the drug illegal profits to put them out of business" said Rossidesc Rossides and Walters said they are urging the federal courts to apply the maximum criminal penalty in the tax cases (five years in prison and a $10000 fine) MOVING UP: South Vietnamese troops move up Route Viet paratroopers were reported to have penetrated the 1 north of My Chanh into Quang Tri province South city limits of Quang Tri Viets Retake Quang Tri Power Station And Airfield aged but not destroyed by Communist and allied bombardment in the past three months Troops who took the airfield 1 miles to the northwest reported its aluminum matted runways and steel helicopter pads were torn apart by Quang Tri city and its surrounding province were captured by about 48000 Communist troops May 1 Saigon paratroopers occupied the power station Tuesday about 500 yards from the center of the city and radioed back that it was badly dam with the heaviest shelling attack there since the 1968 Tet offensive In the air war the Command said American fighter-bombers flew a record-tying 340 missions over North Vietnam bombing a MIG airfield and knocking out a railroad bridge near Hanoi ONLY 10 MGW 10 mg lar 0 8 mg nicotine pei cigarette by HC method' PEER PRESSURE WARES Teen-Agers Tell Drug Adventures United Press International SAIGON South Vietnamese paratroopers seized Quang Tri shell-battered airfield and main power station Thursday in the drive to end the two-month Communist occupation of its northernmost province Five miles east of the city Communist troops used captured American-built tanks to slow down about 13000 South Viet a reinforcements moving toward the provincial capital The 1200-man force in Quang Tri city encountered little opposition in its sweep through southern areas of town But South Vietnamese officers said they would not consider the city theirs until they took Its 19th century citadel a walled fortress near the center of the city believed occupied by Communist snipers In an apparent attempt to slow down the South Vietnamese drive the Communists hit the old imperial capital of Hue 32 miles to the south went to the bathroom or to the parking Sally and other teen-agers now participating in a Fort Lauderdale drug rehabilitation program for school-age children were witnesses in the second of three of hearings on local high schools by committee Asked by committee members for advice on combatting the school drug problem the teen-agers said the only thing drug addicts will respond to is that antidrug programs need vast improvement and that schools should have authority to force addicts into rehabilitation programs if parents won't Larry Pellegrini who said he began smoking marijuana at the age of 13 told the congressmen he became addicted to heroin and finally turned to armed robbery to support his habit lie estimated he had committed more than 100 crimes Pelligrini 18 said he had committed more than a dozen armed robberies and had been arrested at least six times on a variety of charges Libby MacDonald testified she and another Florida girl were sent to a 150-student New York boarding school and wound up turning nearly all their classmates to drugs I got there there were only a couple of us on Libby said of us turned on about everyone there during the one year I was today listen to parents teachers police or anybody except their said Miss MacDonald pressure is the only thing that is going to take the kids off drugs doing any good at all They provide another recreation place where the kids can sell drugs and get mmm? GET QUICK RELIEF WITH FOULED Foill with Btnxo caine noothei and cools sunburn pain Special oils vaporats ptneirala akin tor more lasting relief Use for minor burns and abrasions loo United Press International MIAMI Sally Pace blonde pretty and 16 told a congressional committee Thursday that 80 per cent of the students in one of south largest high schools are on drugs and steal to support their habits Sally a former student at Fort Plantation High told the US House Select Crime Committee headed by Florida Congressman Claude Pepper that most of her teachers would just let her sleep when she came to school stoned on drugs you wanted to get stoned at she said Aide Charged In Fraud By MARTHA ANGLE (C) 172 Tht Washington Star WASHINGTON A former top aide to Rep James Collins R-Tex took thousands of dollars in kickbacks from members of the staff and later persuaded them to lie about the arrangement to federal investigators according to US district court testimony A key government witness testified that George A Haag 32 former administrative assistant to Collins had arranged for him to be carried bn the House payroll for several months in exchange for Jialf of his gross pay of $1000 per month The witness Michael Henning 27 said that during the period involved in early 1969 he was a fulltime student at Stanford University in Palo Alto Calif and performed no work for Collins Haag went on trial Wednes-: day before Judge Oliver Gasch on charges of mail fraud falsifying House payroll records and obstruction of justice Collins has not been indicted In the kickback case but the US attorney's office revealed in May that the GOP congressman was under investigation by a federal grand jury that is peeking to learn whether he had any role in the drafting of so-called or non-incriminating statements made to the FBI in the Haag case 1 attorneys plan to aubppena Collins If the went does not.