Fri. A11g11st 25, 1972 REYKJAVIK At Re y kja vik - Bobby Fischer closes in on the 11 orld chess championship. In game eighteen today acceptmg a dra w as offered b y reigning champ Boris spassk)• ; doing so - e v en though Ire cl ' early held an advantage. The American challenger thus Picking 11p another half point raising him to ten-and-a-half in all. With six games •till to go he now needs only tt~o more t,oints to become America's first world chess champion. Says us grandmaster Larry Evans. "I would,a't be surprised if Fischer is co,ite11t to play tire rest out i11 draws. " • MINN EA POI .. JS Vice P1•esident Agnew today was at Min . near,olis addressing 11,e ,rational convention of the veterans of foreign wa1·s, lashing out at George McGovern for sllggesting that, quote, "a general amnesty is a tradition among the Presidents of this country." Such a statement clea,•l_v evasion of fact - said Ted Agnew. Adding: "The ,ruth is - the US has alwa}'S looked with disdain on those who in time of need walk out on thei-r obligations to the natio,i and their fellow citizens." He was also contending that "this kind of amnesty - would tear the country ar,art." "It would anger, and I believe rightly so - said he - "the millions who have served honorably in our a-rmed services; and the t•s of millions whose sons and husbands and other relatives - have been or now ,z re in uniform• " WASHINGTON FOLLOW MINNEAPOLIS On the Democratic side - S-:1nator McGovern in 1Vashi,iglon, was issuing a statement acc11sing President Nixon of turning the nation into a "Palace for the privileged few." Also, accusing the President of sending into exile - the nation's principals of Peace, prosperity, Justice and open government. " A11d then a speech to a National Labor Committee for McGovern-Shriver he was accusing the President of attempting to clor,d the issues; of which "issue number one" - said he - is now unemployment. The Senator adding that his new tax welfare proposals - "will Put people back to work placing "the number one emphasis - on Providing • job for everyone who is able to work." U NITED NATIONS Al Ille U ■ I a United Nations - tile peoples Rcp11blic of Cllina castsits first ve to. As one af the permanent membe · rs of the U N Security Council - ---0-14~ - SllCC'essfi,Ll)' barring,_~, I, the ne., slate from of Bangladesh-'., U N membership. , , I, China's ambassador Huang Hua charging that R11ssia and India - auere "guilty of aggression hr . East Pakistan;" and nao - in seeking memberslaip for Bangladesh - attempting to. "legalize their violation of the U N charier." Adding•••• in effect, no dice. SUYDAM CUTTING The New York r· , . mes refers to Explorer Suydam C11tti,rg as "the fi,•st white Christian ever to enter the I- forbidden city of Lhasa in Tibe t ." He was indeed one of the firS t , a,id Lowell Jr . and I tuere much indebted to him for suggestions and helr, he gave us just before we crossed the Himalayas to Lhasa in 1949. Suydam Cuttin . g, descendan.t of a family that became wealtlly way back in Colonial Days, died at liis Car,e Cod home at age eighty-three . He was one of the most modest and self-effacing of modern exfJlorers . , 4 close friend of the President Theodore Roosevelt family he made several Asian jotlrneys , ith the TR 's two sons, Kermit and Ted; just about the first Americans to bring back tire horns of ll1e rare o v is fJ · oli, the magnificent high Asian slaeefJ named for Marco Polo. Among his associates were tlle Jay Goulds, the and nearly a ll of the leg•ndary social Vin . ce,it As tors, groufJ of the era befof'e World War One. SUYDAM CUTTING - 2 His journe )' lo Lhasa in Nineteen Thirt y -Jive was in compan y with Arthur Verney, pal of the Duke of Windsor . When he retllr11ed Su y dam wrote a fine book, - Tlte Fire Ox And 0th.e r Years, in w hiclt lte referred to the Dalai Lama's palace, the Potala, as the most magnificent building in the world. Suydam Cutting an explorer of another era! MOUNT INDEX I" S'1owhomish count _ v. Washington - on tlte slot>es of Mr. Index - a local ltelico1>ter crew surceeded in hauling- in astmnded climber ; one Craig Keyes , who had dangled stnce Monda y at the end of a rope hundreds of feet above tlae gro11nd . Rescuers further reporting : He's in good slaape much better than expected . - MUNICH The ,.ame Bob Hoff-an .,. - a name revered b} ' ge · nerafions of body-builders and w,eigltl lifters the world over. Al age seventy-four the living ~« proof of all that he preaches tw,o ""ndred and fifty pounds of t I pure muscle as 111ell - - a s a millionaire ~ many limes over; from ,,,e sale of ltealllt equipmer,I - A . . , and books such as "you are ,111iial you eat". - - - - - #af- Now y: s • Mu,. i c It "' Iser e It e 's at t e n di" g t It e A Olympics) - discussing the physical demands of ~~ ,, political power 1 Kays~off111an - tlae average · mar, has about twelve days a year 111ien lie 's . . . Just r,ot ~~~) up lo pa,!i \.,, a sneeze from the Preside,rt - can ,, echo throughout the w,orld; so tlle Chief Executive - J) must al1Days be in top shape. Re, therefore, recommends among other lflir,gs - a coffee free diet, plenty of apples and peanut butler. A11d regular exercise. "I gave President Nixon some of my dumb- MUNICH - 2 bells lhal he uses from lime lo time" - says Bob Hoffma,i. Adding : "Thal's one reason - he's the l,ealllliesl Presidenl In a century." Nexl question: Does he also plan ... - # . . . . . . . to prescribe " . · ·· a physical regimen • J\ LEWISTON One of the most enduring of A . . . mer1can traditions is the v enerable old Farmers' Almanac, published at Lewisto11, Maine. Year i d ' n an year out - The Farme · rs' A l man a c P ok es gen t l e Jun a t women . o b nee o ~ servi,ag : "One of the best ways for a woman to catclt a man _ is to keep he r tr a P s h u t . " Ano th e r : "Many w om e ,a would be m ore s fJ i c - if they :, ad less s fJ an . " A h , b ,tt ti m es c Ir a" g e . A,rd this year - i,r res(Jo,ase to complaints , for womens libbers - Almanac new editor Ray Geigerhas is cltan , ging his tune with a,a article (Jraisi,ag women for their intellige,ace, Klil, cl,arm and beauty; also, their fiscal respor,sibility - a11d political acumen. Elsewhere in.the Almanac, • he ltas some one liners on on women . In one he · says: "My wife leads a double life hers and mine."