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The Fresno Bee from Fresno, California • 16

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The Fresno Beei
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Fresno, California
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16
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Ulster Violence Takes Eight Lives Page A14 Thursday July 13 1972 THE FRESNO BEE Fischer Forfeits Second Game In Protest Over TV Cameras were hit by sniper fire Wednesday night in the Catholic Lower Falls area of Belfast the army said Eight soldiers were injured three seriously when a landmine blasted their truck near Keady County armagh near the Irish Republic border in Fortadown frequented mainly by Catholics police said A 35-year-old man found early today with gunshot wounds in the chest died later in the hospital In the period's other fatalities two British soldiers died early today after they British forces Sunday in a Belfast housing estate Twomey said the troops fired first British officials said White-law was studying the truce offer caution" In the Catholic Old Park Road district four gunmen burst into the home of Sally McLenaghan a Catholic widow shot her in the leg and arm then shot her son David as he lay in bed sleeping the army said Police said the boy had a mental age of four In the city's Catholic Bal-lymurphy area police found the hooded body of an unidentified man of about 25 floating in a stream In Por-tadown 25 miles southwest of Belfast Protestant Paul Beattie 20 was killed by a sniper Later' two- unidentified men were shot dead in a pub Pagoda Phone Booths Are Called Ludicrous SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) The aesthetic-minded San Art Com- mission recommended that mission calls the new pagoda- Pacific Telephone Co scrap shaped telephone booths the Chinese style designs in Chinatown and use regular phone ludicrous and booths instead Dockers In Hawaii OK Contract HONOLULU Negotiators for Hawaii's longshoremen and the stevedoring industry reached agreement Wednesday night on a new contract following 13 months of sporadic talks and mounting fears of a devastating strike The announcement by federal mediator Reynold Hagist ended the fears that the International Longshoremens and Union (ILWU) would launch a strike that could be a tough blow to Hawaii's vulnerable economy Representatives for both sides left the ILWU headquarters shortly before midnight smiling and congratulating themselves parties have reached agreement on all issues in the longshore Hagist said adding that the agreements are to the required ratification of the ILWU membership" Bernard Eilerts chief industry spokesman said agreement we have reached is a fair one" Terms were not disclosed Shop Bee Want Ads save time and money (adv) BELFAST (LTD Eight persons including a retarded 15-yearold Catholic boy shot in his bed died in continuing violence Wednesday and today in one of the bloodiest 24-hour periods since a two-week cease-fire ended Sunday The deaths boosted the fatality toll in almost three years of violence in Northern Ireland to 429 British officials studied a new truce offer from the Irish Republican Army (IRA) Seamus Twomey chief of the Provisional wing in Belfast said Wednesday the Provisionals would be willing to negotiate a new cease-fire with William Whitelaw secretary of state for Northern Ireland providing British forces promise to honor the truce would have to give us strong guarantees witnessed by neutral observers that he would be prepared to honor his Twomey told a news conference in the Catholic Andersonstown district British Government would have to give their word of Twomey said Whitelaw was a in saying the Provisionals broke the truce in an outbreak of shooting between them and 1 METROPOLITAN ART ASSOCIATION PRESENTS AN IMPORTANT ART AUCTION FROM THEIR MODERN MASTERS COLLECTION AT FRESNO HILTON HOTEL PRESSROOM 1055 VAN NESS AVENUE THURSDAY-JULY 13 EXHIBITION FROM 4 PM-AUCTION AT 8 PM ORIGINAL PAINTINGS-WATERCOLORS ORIGINAL GRAPHICS BY CHAGALL PICASSO DALI MIRO AMEN LEVIER VOLANG LAUTREC BRAGG WEISBUCH GUILLOT MASSON BUFFET TERECHKOVITCH GAUCHET CLAVE SCHONEBERG LEBADANG AND MANY OTHERS RENT A 1972 FORD rentacarI 399 PER DAY Plus MIIIAOI JH SANDERS FORD aL hM Mato) Ph 291-2581 Bobby Fischer peers at Boris Spaasky AP Wirephoto REYKJAVIK Iceland (UPI) Bobby Fischer forfeited the second game of his world championship chess match with Russian Boris Spassky today Fischer failed to show up for the game and an aide said he was asleep The forfeit give Spassky a 2-0 lead in the match He needs only 12 points to retain his title while Fischer needed 12 i to win The next scheduled game is Sunuday Spassky arrived about two minutes before the scheduled- starting time and walked slowly around the stage with referee Lothar Schmid waiting for Fischer The audience sat silently in the hall watching the empty stage and Fischer's black swivel chair which he had flown in from New York for the match Fischer boycotted today's game in protest against the use of closed circuit television to give spectators a better view of the play Organizers said earlier they would remove one of the cameras if Fischer would play Apology Demanded Schmid also demanded a personal apology from Fischer The arbiter said Fischer called him a liar when Schmid went backstage Wednesday to try to talk Fischer into returning to the game Schmid also said the organizers would be allowed to fill the two front rows of the spectator seats in the 3000 seat hall today The organizers emptied the two rows Wednesday at request but Schmidt said this was a onetime concession The 29-year-old American walked out Wednesday night because two tiny TV cameras were hidden above the stage and used for the closed circuit TV in the hall Fred Cramer a vice president of the UR Chess Federation and acting on behalf of Fischer said negotiations were under way with Richard Stein a lawyer for Chester Fox Inc the US company which owns the TV and film rights for the match is no solution yet but as long as we talk there is a Cramer said Schmid said the Amsterdam agreement between Spassky and Fischer allows Sears OiV SALE 3 DAYS ONLY SALE ENDS SATURDAY JULY 15lli diagonal measure Borltable TV coverage of the match and if Fischer refused to play because of the presence of the cameras this would be a breach of the agreement Fischer never signed the agreement but he sent a cable through the US chess group accepting it Officials said they considered the cable legally binding Although he went into the much-postponed first game a heavy favorite Fischer made what appeared to be a error and went down to defeat at the hands of the 35-year-old Soviet 1 champion The moment truth was painfuL Fischer rose from the massive mahogany chess table made helpless gesture and resigned at the 56th move Before stomping out of the hall he reached over shake hand Fischer obviously was upset but Cramer who is member of the camp said is a pro and this is part of the game I believe he has got enough to come back in the match After all there are 23 possible games picture Israel Tribunal Weighs Airport Terrorist Fate LOD Israel (AP) An Israeli army tribunal began today to weigh the 'fate of accused Lod airport slayer Kozo Okamoto following brief summations by the prosecution and defense Okamoto admitted his full responsibility earlier in the day The court comprised of three lieutenant colonels will announce its verdict on Monday Civilian attorney Max Kritzman summing up for the -defense said this court has any doubts it should favor the accused and serve the The court heard Okamoto 24 admit full responsibility for the Lod attack that killed 28 persons and wounded 67 on May 30 Okamoto in a long and disjointed statement said he was a professional soldier in the Japanese radical Red Army organization which slay anyone who stands on the side of the The court once more a defense request for a psychiatric examination for Okamoto Through a translation garble some reporters heard that the court had actually granted a sanity hearing The chief army prosecutor Lt Col David Israeli said the facts of the case to the only possible is a world revolution Okamoto told the court revolutionary war will carry on We must establish worldwide proletarian The defendant said of himself and his two accomplices: we were young we were told that when we die we will become stars in the sky wanted to become three stars of the hunter Okamoto contended that the three-man military tribunal did not have the authority to try him that in the new society which his Red Army hoped to establish there would be no judicial courts But he added that he accepted his own trial a means of Okomoto is being tried on four charges three of which could bring the death penalty He is expected to get a life sentence His two Japanese accomplices were killed in the slaughter 1457 Whether your first color set a replacement for an old set or a second set for another room we think waited long enough for the right set at the right price Whatever your reason this portable fills the bill big enough for the living room or can be carried to the kitchen den anywhere you want to watch Automatic Chroma Control and Color Purifier give you great color You set the VIIF fine tuning once 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