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wv'wwwvvw vww wrr Ml T' 1 7'' 1' iVt jJ mA Hrifl Kr til't-rHtty'JtrtowftfnLy i--h If pT-it fOrA -s -t' TACQMMAKEWS TRIBUNE WED JULY 12 1972 Iceland a Natural For Big Chess I Fighting Is Heavy At Quang Tri City 1 US Invites MeatFrom 12 Countries WASHINGTON (AP) -Treasury Secretary George Shultz and other government officials meet today with representatives of 12 meat-exporting countries to emphasize the American need for more meat They will be told that American market for meat is now wide open and we will take all you can a spokesman said Besides Shultz 'other US officials at the meeting will include representatives erf the Department of Agriculture the Cost of Living Council the President's Council of Economic Advisers and the office of the special assistant to the President for consumer affairs The countries Invited were Australia New Zealand Mexico Ireland Guatemala FT Salvador Honduras Nicaragua Costa Rica Panama the Dominican Republic and Haiti President Nixon recently announced the lifting of restraints on meat imports in an effort to check rising meat costs The goal is to in-crease meat imports by more than 11 per cent this year The United States imported 1112 billion pounds of meat in 1971 The US spokesman said countries which help the United States with larger meat exports now will be favorably considered when 1973 meat quotas are set Test of his fellow countrymen thought he displayed At any rate all the excruciating preliminaries will soon be forgotten for the game itself In the end a victory of the century mil be realized by one of the players And tiny Iceland one of the least understood of all countries will have taken its rightful place as the recognized chess capital of the world Two French N-TestsMade On Atoll PARIS (AP) French nuclear weapon tests occurred June 21 and June 30 at Muni roa Atoll in the South Pacific the French- news agency reported today quoting informed sources The Defense Ministry refused to comment Several French ships that participated in the tests have returned to Tahiti but are expected to be at the site about July 20 for a third and possibly final test Agence France Presse reported The British Foreign Office reported earlier that a British air force team on Pitca-rin Island about 750 miles southeast of the test site monitored a French nuclear blast during the weekend of June 23 The Canadian protest yacht Greenpeace reported that it saw a second explosion on June 29 The French government has refused to confirm that any of the tests took place By GEORGE ESPER SAIGON (AP) Heavy fighting was reported on three sides of Quang Tri City today and tank-led enemy forces Hocked for the sixth straight day a government drive on the provincial capital The US Command disclosed that a laser-guided bomb on Tuesday breached the wall rf the Citadel the stronghold the enemy holds in the heart of the city This opened the way for an eventual South Vietnamese push into the Citadel Lt Col Do Viet a spokesman for the Saigon command said that reports from the front indicated no South Vietnamese troops now were inside the city The Saigon command reported 238 enemy troops were killed and nine tanks were destroyed in two days of fighting north east and south of Quang Tri The command reported South Vietnamese losses as By WIN ANDERSON News Tribune Staff Writer The tiny country has weathered 700 years of Norwegian and Danish rule occupation by tha British and Americans (which lingers in the form of a large NATO base) volcanos earthquakes and some of the world's harshest weather But the invasion by world chess giant Bobby Fischer may be the severest test yet for the proud nation of 200-000 Regardless of the outcome no place on earth could be a more logical location for the of a between American Fischer and Russian Boris Spassky No where else that I know of are the American and Russian powers so intermingled In Iceland and only in Iceland as fas as I know is it likely that one man will drive an American sedan and his brother a Russian jeep DOMINATING Americans are the dominating foreign influence on the island nation itself but just a few miles offshore the Russian fishing fleet one of the largest in the world harvests the sea next to the Icelandic fleet the most efficient in the world And all around the military might of both nations plays an endless war game of mutual surveillance and counter surveillance over and under the sea And chess to the Icelander is practically second nature It is estimated that 40 to 50 per cent of all Icelanders are avid players in this land where winters are long and local television didn't make an appearance until 1906 devastatingly that my chess ego was totally crushed burned out and still lies lifeless on the Icelandic lava plain Later I learned that Iceland produces a proportionately greater share of grand master chess players than any other hation on earth I recently talked to Siggi by telephone He tells me that because of the TV rights have been usurped by an American firm But it makes little difference to the avid chess buffs of his land since their own station goes off the air during the month of July anyway for summer vacation Instead twice-daily bulletins will be Issued and circulated through the Ohio-sized country i country it should be remembered that is the most literate on earth and has six daily newspapers (serving a population smaller than the city of Tacoma) to prove it INDEPENDENT The Icelanders are fiercely independent And that as pect of Bobby personality may appeal somewhat to them But Fischer's rotten manners and poor sportsmanship have already given the Russian Spassky the diplomatic victory a fact that must have the ruling Socialist-Communist Icelandic government coalition in spasms of joy Siggi tells me many Icelanders had the impression during the pre-match negotiation that intractability was governed more by political motivations than the pure avarice many Every family seems to have at least one chess and the rest dabble proficiently I learned this to my everlasting chagrin in 1964 from a young Icelandic mechanic Sigurjon Thordarsson The Navy sent me to Iceland as an operations control officer in 1963 I met Siggi through his brother Petur whom I worked with in Seattle a few years earlier For better than a year my wife and I had gotten to know Siggi and his wife Gugja partied with them socialized regularly MECHANIC Siggi was the best innovative mechanic I had ever seen In a land where roads were little more than car-eating ruts he had learned every trick in the book to keep them running He had a family two children then and besides working full time on the US Navy base at Keflavik he held down a machinists job in a small shop in town and he was building his own house As for many Icelanders working day ranged to 16 hours And in the year I had been close to his family never had I seen a chess board or heard the game mentioned until that evening in 1964 I had been quietly taking during long quiet watch sessions on the base I mentioned to Siggi how much I was enjoying the game My progress I felt was good To make it short a casual informal challenge resulted in a few friendly games NEYER SINCE I have never played since I was beaten so handily so British Laiv Stalls Chess Prize Funds 31 killed and 93 wounded Most of the government casualties were reported in the helicopter landing of several hundred South Vietnamese marines a mile north of Quang Tri on Tuesday Three US Marine helicopters flying in the South Vietnamese were shot down and two American crewmen were wounded I another development military officials at Hue reported that South Vietnamese troops recaptured Fire Base Checkmate 12 miles southwest of the city It was the fourth time in two weeks that the strategic outpost has changed hands Checkmate is atop a 1000-foot promontory overlooking Fire Base Bastogne and Route 547 the main infiltration road toward Hue from the west Official reports said 28 enemy soldiers were killed in the fighting around Check- mate and that government infantrymen found bodies of ey to get Fischer to Reykjavik after he appeared reluctant to play because the $125000 purse offered by the Icelandic Chess Federation was not enough The extra prize enticed Fischer to do battle Checking Begins On 3 Initiative Petitions OLYMPIA (AP) Verification of signatures on three initiative petitions filed with the state by the July 7 deadline has begun Secretary of State Lud Kramer reports Backers of a fourth 262 to lower the legal drinking age from 21 to 18 reported earlier their petitions were stolen and have asked for a filing extension Kramer said 1 action concerning that initiative still is pending The three petitions filed provide for legalization id greyhound racing with parimutuel betting disclosure of campaign finances and lobbying records and repeal of all existing statutes relating to the operation of state owned and operated liquor stores and extension of the state liquor tax to retail outlets Wcsl Point Rotary Topic West Point Military Academy will be the subject of a talk noon Thursday when the Rotary Club of Tacoma meets at the Top of the Ocean The speaker will be Lt Gen Wi'Jiam A Knowlton superintendent of the 55 North Vietnamese killed earlier by air strikes two miles south of the outpost Their own losses were given a i two killed and five wounded In the fighting around Quang Tri the North Vietnamese seized the initiative in one battle The North Vietnamese launched one counterattack just before dawn today and seized hilltop positions from South Vietnamese paratroopers to the southwest Associated Press correspondent Dennis Neeld reported from the front Neeld said several battalions of South Vietnamese paratroopers on the edges of Quang Tri City were being pounded by long-range North Vietnamese artillery fire Allied planes were striking at the city field reports said but they were hampered by windstorms whipping up sand and reducing the visibility Radio Hanoi announced today that a Communist Revolutionary Committee was established last month to rule Quang Tri Province which the North Vietnamese captured in May and are now defending against the South Vietnamese counterattack The broadcast quoted a communique by the Viet Cong's National liberation Front dated July 5 but gave no reason why the announcement had been held up for a week The US 7th Fleet in a delayed report announced that the destroyers Robison and Hull sank 13 barges off the coast of North Vietnam 30 miles northeast of Dong Hoi before dawn Monday The barges were unloading supplies from a freighter presumed to be Chinese but the freighter was not attacked sources said FM Station At PLU To Raise Power Pacific Lutheran radio KPLU-FM will be the second most powerful noncommercial station in the Pacific Northwest when it resumes broadcasting in September according to PLU President Eugene Wiegman A $5300 grant from Luther-a Brotherhood Insurance Co a Minneapolis firm has completed financing of the new 25000-watt transmitter KPLU-FM broadcasts on 885 me with an emphasis on music news and educational and public service according to Judd Doughty director of broadcast services The stipend making the new transmitter possible was presented by George Wade of Seattle a member of the Lutheran Brotherhood board of directors and Roald Sev-ertson general agent for Pacific Northwest The nqw capability will make -KPLU-FM programming available to some 2000-000 listeners in six Western Washington counties Doughtv said the station facilities will be available to a variety of community cultural educa-tional and public service groups Demos Tip Like Republicans MIAMI BEACH Fla (AP) To the cabbies and bellhops no question about it Democrats just spread around the cash that Republicans do between you and me lady Republicans are much bigger cabbie William Previs said recently to a questioner know some have it and some Two veteran bellhops at the Fontainebleau Hotel Democratic headquarters agree Democrats they said but not the worst tippers are the worst tippers and teachers are one said LONDON (AP) British financier James Slater has been stalled in his efforts to I the $120000 prize money I he put up for the world chess championship between Bobby Fischer and Boris 1 Spassky in Iceland Under foreign change control regulations he cannot get the money out of the country until the Bank of England says so A bank spokesman said Slater had applied for per- mission to get the money to the players but declined to say whrther bank approval would be forthcoming Slater a chess fan cannot transfer the money from his f- worldwide banking and in-vestment empire to foreign- ers or open bank accounts for either Fischer or Spassky in Britain without the bank's approval The most he can do is pay 'r $720 a year the max-imum gift payment permitted to go to nonsterling areas from Britain Slater 43 put up the mon- License Tab Study Being Made by State OLYMPIA '(AP) The Department 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