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Thursdav. June 23. '72 DETROIT FREE PRESS Detroit The Back Page i' ,4 i V- if1 -t I i iff A y-v 4" i V- 1 v. 1- I' -4 NL-Jir-i, 2f 4 vs. McGovern Willi 'System' at Slake 2.

Meet I orris llouanl 1. (Jt ne urtMt Who rives liirn an anli-sniokinji; pilch No Please Smoking, THE QUESTION to be argued this election year to numbing length be boiled down to this: How much is wrong with The" System? At his track record to this point is Indicative of how he will campaign as the apparent Democratic nominee, then George McGovern will find much fault with the way things have been going. Taxes, he will insist, are too high for the poor and too low for the rich, with the dividing point separating the two somewhere in the neighborhood of $25,000 per year, per family. He will call, too, for a dramatic overhaul of the welfare program; for tighter limitations on military spending; for stricter enforcement of the anti-trust laws; for, the busing of school children where essential to integration; for the easing of some laws which restrict ultimate personal and for a tone of government ''radical" in that economic achievers will have less to say about its management and goals. All of this will leave Richard Nixon as the defender of The System, with variations.

He has already pressed for revenue sharing and for major alterations in welfare, but he is not likely to change his mind on busing, which he opposes; the military, fr whom he seeks additional funds; abortion and marijuana, both of which he abhors; or for the replacement of economic ichivers with "a dirt farmer as secretary of agriculture, a own family on the topic. "They'd cuss me out, too," he sighed. Norris Howard, 15, a Southeastern High School student, was able to claim a small measure of success. He spotted Gene Burton of Detroit" lighting up and walked over to give him the anti-smoking gospel Burton explained that he has been cutting down on his smoking and was down from three packs a day to just three cigarets a day. After hearing Howard he promised to cut down to two cigairets a day.

Burton took one long, last puff of his 100-milIlmeter-long, filter-tip special, dropped it to the ground and sadly crushed it under his boot. the square and tried to, convince them of the error of their ways. The youngsters said, the smokers they approached were about evenly divided between those who listened politely but said they would continue smoking and those who Ignored them or walked away. Terry Harris, 16, a student at Murray Wright High School, said there were a few militant smokers who cursed members of the group and their reform efforts. Harris spent three hours Wednesday talking to strangers about the dangers of smoking but he said he'd be afraid to approach the five smokers in his BY LOUIS HELDMAN Pr PrMi $tf( Writtr Using the time-tested techniques of sidewalk missionaries, a dedicated of 19 Detroit teen-agers spent the lunch hour Wednesday in Kennedy Square trying to convince people to stop smoking.

The group was composed of members of the Neighlwrhood Youth Corps, 15 to 18 years old, who are working this summer in health-education programs of the Tuberculosis and Health Society. Members of the group, wearing "Healthy Spirit '72" T-shirts, confronted cigaret smokers strolling on 4. The cigarct gets killed working man as secretary of1 labor, an Indian in charge of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and women in positions commensurate with their numbers and concern about the country," as Sen. McGovern promised in 1 a-homa City on Monday. There is indeed, a great deal of difference between these political antagonists, and nne presumes that their argument if it Is not discorded by the shrillness of their partisans will be good for the country.

One might if if vu "mm mW' 'vn. igfmf ill -itJMLljy only wish that it would start sooner and end earlier, thus sparing us the tedium of the endless preliminaries. How wil) it all end with The System intact or in shreds? Now there. is a good question At the moment it seems to be assumed that Mr, McGovern Is several strides off the pace, suffering from faulty baton handling within his own His performance has been true, in that he has come, from nowhere to a place of contention, but the sinking feeling persists in some quarters that this occurred simply because he has put together the most effective of a bad lot of coalitions. Primaries, it should be remembered, are usually won by coalitions, but in the process the builders take care to provide room on the bandwagon in the event their stalwart is nominated.

Have Mr. McGovern and his advisors done this, or have they been guilty of alienating the Great American Middle-Class, of many "working people" are members in good stand- LONG BEFORE HIS TRAGIC DEATH in that airplane trah, the late Walter Reuther had muted his outbursts against 'vested interests," primarily because too many of his own dues-paying members were finding shelter under that umbrella. people" aren't what they used to be, for a "number of substantial reasons. I Who has more vested interest in The System than an industrial worker with a mortgage on his house; a youngster in college; two or three more in elementary or high school, subject (perhaps) to busing; and seniority in his union? This gentleman has enme a long way, the hard way, In the pat 20 years. He Is no longer a "working stiff" in the old and "arrow sense.

He is middle-class; he has much to protect; In that interest, 'he might have leaned toward George Wallace or Hubert Humphrey; what will he do In November? If we learned anything in the primaries, it was that "spokesmen" can no longer deliver the vole. Had they been able to, Edmund Muskie would have won the gonfalon in a gallop. So, agsjn, what will the harvest be on election day when the working people march to the polls? Will they follow at least the lip-service of their leaders and join the McGovern coalition, risking change; or will they turn to Richard Nixon, and the status quo? 1 We must wait for the answers. Rut there is the feeling here that more working people than you might suspect have had their immediate fill of innovations. Free Hress eiiotos IKA ROSENS 6.

Ami Norris makes a new frieiul 5. Cene sifrns up for some aiili-sinokinjj; hleraluie names faces Chess Laser Can Cry into His Moneybags Gfflto WW 3r A few years ago when thousands of teen-agers descended on a beach resort I was asked to come and talk to them, went. The police built a platform right on the beach and the young people came to listen about 10,000 of them. As I talked to those teen-agers I didn't observe any disrespect. None of them made fun of me.

There were no hecklers. They listened! There are thousands of young people who have found an answer to the problems of boredom, insecurity and sex through accepting Jesus Christ and His way of life. QUESTION -I don't understand the young people of today. Just what are they coming to? F. M.

ANSWER Today's youth cannot make plans as our generation made them. Theirs is a different era, an era filled with danger and menaced by storm clouds on the horizon. Unless we solve the problems of our generation, the world may be blown up. W.e do not have any more We cannot wait any longr. i (r fin Chess wizard Bobby Fischer, who played his first chess game.

when he was six years old, used to cry when he lost. He doesn't cry any more-hut then he doesn't lose much, either. And even if Soviet chess champion Boris Spassky upsets the oddsmakers and beats Fischer in their epic tournament beginning Sunday, the young genius is going to have a bag full of money to wipe away his tears. 1 Fischer, 29, and Spassky, 35 will divide up $125,000 in prize money, with $78,125 going to the winner. They will also split 60 percent of the income from films and television, an amount that could eventually dwarf the prize money itself.

The Icelandic Chess Federation, sponsor of the 24-game, two-month match in Reykjavik, has signed a contract with Chester Fox and Co. for exclusive worldwide rights to films and still photos taken inside the Sportshell, where the match will be played. "I guess it's a coup, but It's quite an undertaking," said Fox, who wili spend $200,000 for color filming and split the. profits with federation and players. ABC has bought the U.S.

rights and will show segments of the match on "Wide World of SporU." Fischer left New York for Reykjavik Wednesday" night after missing his originally, scheduled departure. once called "the second greatest pimp in New York." Marcus was charged with possessing a restricted drug, accessory after the fact to the drugging, false imprisonment and battery. The bunny-turned-actress, Joyce Williams, 2.1, said the spiked, grape juice given her, March 23 left her with tempo- rary speech loss and paralysis. She claims she still suffers hallucinatory flashbacks, and is demanding $2 million in damages in a civil suit filed against Cranston and Marcus. MiU-hrlU Make Up Martha and John Mitchell ducked out the back door of a posh Westchester (N.Y.) Country Club Wednesday and sped away in a limousine after 48 hours of apparent conciliatory talks.

Destination: Unknown. Mrs. Mitchell, who threatened to leave her husband unless he quit his post as head of Committee to Re-elect President Nixon, was joined at the club by the former attorney general Monday. Neither left her two-room suite on the eighth floor until the abrupt exit. "I love my husband very much, but I'm not going to stand for all those dirty things that go on," Mrs.

Mitchell said Sunday. She also said a security agent yanked a telephone out of her hand last week while she talked to a reporter, and that five guards threw her onto a bed "and stuck a needle in my behind." Committee '-officials' said Mitchell had no intention of giving up his job. lundv Grou Photo York slate against Larry Evans, current co-holder of the U.S. chess title. Fischer and Spassky will play for the world championship.

While preparing recently for his encounter with Russia's Boris Spassky, Bobby Fischer (left) plays a match in the pool at Grossinger's Hotel in New Spasskv, waiting for him in eland, lost his reputation for on with." Spassky later returned to the court and lost two sets in a row. A bad omen? "It doesn't matter," said Nei. "We were playing just for the exercise." Mariner Safe Britain's much-honored an-c i mariner, Sir Francis Chichester, Wednesday night signaled he was after being sick in the early sfages of hislsnlo transatlantic' jaoht race to America. Spotted by a Royal Air Force plane about 200 miles off the French coast, Britain's 70-year-old 1 yachtsman flashed the news with a signal lamp. "1 have been ill," he signaled.

"No rescue. I am OK." But his course remained steadily northeast, indicating that he brought his ketch, Gipsy Moth about and was making for home. winner of, the firstitransatlantic race in lDfiO, entered the race against his doctor's, adyicf. He made, no radio contact since setting sail II days ago, and his silence had aroused widespread concern for his safety. Crape Juice Trip The son of a U.S.

senator has been imiicted in ILos Ange 1 for drugging a former Playboy bunny with grape juice secretly dosed with MDA, an exotic hallucinogen. Robin Cranston, 24, son of Sen. Alan Cranston, D-Ca Impleaded innocent to charges of administering a dangerous drug and felonious Also indicted was discotheque owner David Marcus, 27, whom New York magazine glacial calm when he blew up at three photographers taking pictures of his tennis game with Jivo Nei, a compatriot helping him train for the grueling match. Experts say the loser in the chess tournament will be the first man to tire. "You are ruining our program" Spassky said, storm-ing off the court, "This is a daily routine which I must get "WE MAP AN OFFICE BANQUET AND I BROUGHT YOU A OOG6IE BAG.".