Evening Standard from London, Greater London, England • 6

EVENING STANDARD THURSDAY JULY IS 197J Will you pay more to drive in London? The a special licence CIVIL SERVANT Peter Morrish of Beenham Berkshire who drives his ear into London was all for the idea Licensing Is fair in a way because of the traffic problem I believe that priority should be given to publio transport in London and that we should be encouraged to finish our journey on as long as one has plenty of car parks outside the 'no-go area" TRAFFIC warden Paul Yerrico busy booking errant motorists was critical of the idea: "It will discourage motorists from coming in and might put me out of a jobi Seriously another burden on the driver and 1 think unfair It looks to me like the first step to banning private ears from London altogether 1 would not pay for a licence but then I would not be idiotic enongh to bring a car Into the DICK IIUDD a 37-ycar-oId taxi-driver who has been rabbying for three-and-a-half years said: is a bit cock-eyed and it going to solve the big problem of on street parking We are now paying for the mistakes of our planners who even now are allowing hnge offices to be built with paltry parking facilities Of course licences would hit the average working man who will not be able to afford them all right for the bloke in his Rolls-Royce Hell ay up without A PLAN to charge commuting motorists a supplementary licence to drive in London between 7 am and 6 pm on weekdays is being discussed by the GLC (see page 12) Today Pictureprobe asked London drivers what they thought of the idea row From MARY KENNY REYKJAVIK Thursday AFTER JOS DEFEAT by Spassky in the first vital chess match in the world championship tournament series of 24 last night Bobby Fischer the American Grand Master faces the Soviet champion In the second game tonight But there is still some alterca That move-was there more to it? was the reaction of articled clerk Chris Bourgeois whose Triumph Spitfire costs him a hefty £350 a year to run MI have to bring my car into London as I need it for work Ki I shall have to fork out eally someone ought to realise that people who bring Uieir cars into the City do it for fun I wouldn't mind so much if all the revenue was spent on Improving the roads but it We still have many problems about the television cameras and Mr Fischer and something will have to be sorted out before the second Lother Schmid the chief arbiter who had Just returned from Germany especially for the game said last night Schmid agreed that it was against the ruffes to have given in to Bobby on this question And a new ruling will have to be worked out today The diagnosis of defeat in the first by no means disastrous but a psychological setback none the by chcssmasters here was that instead of being content with a draw he decided to lor and lost This is the sort of personality pattern which mokes Fischer seem crazy to those normal human beings who think that a draw is better than a loss But it is also a considerable factor in his eccentric genius Both contenders stand to win a lot of money in these tournaments £60000 to the winner and £40000 to the loser with a further £11000 in the film and television rights share out If Fischer wins he will certainly become a millionaire the first time ever an American has succeeded in that all-American dream by means of chess NBC man held in Beirut BEIRUT Thursday RICHARD HUNT Beirut bureau chief of the American National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) was detained for questioning by police in Beirut and held overnight Police declined to make any immediate comment The police searched Hunt's house last night and took away a number of documents His wife Car La was also questioned at police headquarters but later allowed to leave (Reuter) Shevchenoko dies at 59 MOSCOW Thursday Leonid Slievchenoko a member of the Soviet Communist Party's Auditing Commission and longtime assistant to President Nikolai Podgomy has died aged 59 (AP) Why not come and sec why Derber really is the only shoe shop in Oxford Street Hijacked -two US jets in one night NEW YORK Thursday HIJACKERS demanding ransom and parachutes commandeered American and National Airlines flights last night in separate incidents on the East Coast and South-West authorities said In Philadelphia two armed black hijackers described as 11 very held 117 people aboard a National Airlines Jetliner early today as they waited for three parachutes a ransom of about £246000 and replacement plane Shortly after the plane landed pilot Elliott Adams escaped from the cockpit window suffering severe head cuts from broken glass An aircraft carrying the money arrived in Philadelphia later The FBI demanded the release of aid the passengers before turning over the money but the hijackers have Insisted they would first board the second aircraft with their hostage crew and only then the passengers Two both tmcrchant were among the passengers released in Philadelphia It was said Mr William Sherratt 47 of South-port Lancashire Mr Sherratt chief engineer in the 5936-ton British cargo ship was on his way home from Savannah Georgia He said he heat in the aircraft was terrific never sweated so much in my Another member of the Mahsud's crew Mr Peter McMahon 27 also from Lancashire said the hijacking was In Oklahoma City a Boeing 727 airliner with 51 passengers seven crew and an armed grey-haired hi-j acker aboard circled above the airport early today while officials tried to collect ransom money from local banks An American Airlines spokesman said the airline was having i rouble getting the money together because most banks in Oklahoma City use time locks which had not yet opened He was trying to get other banks to help Sudiiorly Ihc unique Derber collection of womens and mens shoes hove startled Oxford Street At No 192 the footwear lashion explosion exposes Derber's AT LAST! was waiting for her husband to drive home to Bromley Kent in one of their two cars Her reactions Theoretically until it applies to you It depends how much the GLG would charge but basically we would not mind paying it is still cheaper to drive to London titan to pay fare on publie AMERICAN tourist Michael Jarboe from California said the idea is to cut down the traffic in London then it is a good one Quite honestly your London traffic is fright ening It goes so fast In the narrow streets But there is a danger of forcing too many cars outside the city This has already happened in the States In downtown Los Angeles there are no cars now and all the shops are empty The traders are very BLOOMING CHEEK ex- floded Miss Rhoda Barrett rom Ruislip jolly well not going to pay for a licence We motorists are paying enough already in tax and DR MOYA MEREDITH SMITH a lecturer in dental anatomy said: think the proposal is very reasonable especially if it helps to rut down the number of cars I can guarantee that every time 1 drive here something happens Today my two offside handles were lorn off by a ft BOND STREET ANTIQUE CENTRE 50000 different items on display at 44 separate shops 1 24 NEW BOND STREET WJ Tel: 629 1819 MR IVAN DRING of Oxford commented: Whichever way you try to solve the problem the motorist has to pay in the end The alternatives to licensing are flyovers above the City or ban private cars and make everybody use publie transport one of these things we cannot avoid We earn so much money these days we wouldn't notice BLONDE Jil Bernard Z4 rushing off in her mini to another modelling assignment said: I would be willing to pay for a licence to drive in London I have to go all over the place and could not possibly work here without a car Obviously something must be done to ease the traffic chaos The majority of people who drive their cars into London leave them parked all day They would be reluctant to pay I think" LORRY DRIVER James Fox who negotiates a route from his building site in the Strand out to Chiswick four times a day said: "Anything that keeps the number of cars down on the roads is a good thing murder trying to get through Kensington and nigh (abridge The people who bring their cars to London arc well off EXECUTIVE officer in the civil service Sukhdev Marway leaves his car at home in East llain and travels to the centre of London by Tube I don't think this licence idea will do any good at all It will not help anybody by driving them into an already over-crowded public transport system The people who thought up this idea will have to think tion which may threaten the game Fischer spent 30 minutes of the adjourned match last night arguing about the proximity of five television cameras behind the stage and the alleged noise they were making He succeeded in gobbing these cameras stopped In doing this he was actually once more going against the rules of the chess federation since he had previously agreed implicitly to the TV coverage THE BEGINNING of the end move which led to his defeat few moves away from promoting a pawn Into a queen The match with 23 games to go is still wide open Three previous challengers since 1948 lost the first game of the series Two of them went on to win the championship and the other tied the match In game Fischer lias the white pieces an advantage similar to the serve in tennis He will open almost certainly with his favourite move pawn to king four followed by a Ry Lopez opening Spassky had to struggle for a draw against Fischer's Ry Lopez in two of their previous games just a few short months of trading at our Soho branch end due to the fantastc demand we have had to open this new large store By LEONARD BARDEN THE fatal pawn snatch on move 29 which cast Bobby Fischer his first game with Spassky will be a talking point among chess Grand asters for years to come Spassky trapped bishop which made the capture simple by a spider's web net operation to be found in any elementary textbook The human machine showed himself as fallible as a gas board computer sending out a MU for £10000 instead of £10 It was one of the worst blunders of Fischer's chess career although Bobby's reputation is such that hours later there were stiU chess masters who thought he had made a far-sighted sacrifice Spassky could hardly believe his luck The game till then had resembled a meeting of the Woodchoppers Union with most of the pieces swopped off the board in the first 20 moves Spassky was probably wondering if Bobby would break his rule of never offering a draw before the end of the first session Fischer's blunder was a gift to the squade of Grand Master analysts assembled in Rcykpavik and Moscow ready to work all night to keep Russia at the top in chess In last night's play Spassky gobbled up Fischer's pawns with his king and when Fischer resigned Spassky was only a A SB1CC SHOP IN CKFCHD STREET unique range of womens fashion shoes and for men the exciting new Dcrbcr Topper collection Breaking into Oxford Street has taken.