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COURIER-POST, Sunday, April 20, 1986 1 1 ni'' 1- 1 THE 'CfllfJB SHOE) 1 I Lhess ffets backm aces gin ni gnpi THE REAL PUZZLE ON CHESS LUMINARIES fte 33 P-B4 STEINITZ HO MO 00 bX By DON RUBIN Special to the Courier-Post wfc 3 Si By SHELBY LYMAN Special to the Courier-Post Although chess in the U.S. receives no government support, political leaders have on occasion shown a keen interest in the royal game. A call to Bobby Fischer from Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, on behalf of Richard Nixon, a few days before the 1972 Fischer-Spassky match heavily influenced the reluctant American genius to fly to Reykjavik and play the titleholder. During his presidency, Jimmy Carter whose son Chip was a U.S. Chess Federation-rated tournament 1 We've scrambled the names ol these nine heavenly objects.

See if you can identify them. 1) ROARUJAMS (William "The Refrigerator" Perry) 2) DRATZGIGSUSTY (David Bowie) 3) SUENV (Botticelli) 4) NOSOMYGUNMUN 5) LLMMNNOOSIU 6) LOTUP 7) YELLOHBAND CHEATSTIME 8) CUREMYR 8) ROASTGRINR Don Rubin is the author of QR QN QB KB kR ZUKERTORT BLACK TO PLAY BEGINNER'S CORNER hint: The king can't guard everything. player proclaimed a National Chess Day. Two years ago, Ronald Reagan invited a champion elementary school team, "The Masters of Disaster" from Indianapolis, to the White House. SINCE THE START of his tenure as mayor of New York, Ed Koch has recognized chess as a valuable and prestigious resource.

Most notable of his actions was a reception for World Champion Anatoly Karpov. Recent support for chess includes a proclamation heralding the 1986 New York International Tournament and plans for a May centennial celebration at City Hall of the 1886 world title match between Welhelm Steinitz and Johannes Zukertort. The opening venue of that match -the first ever for the world championship was New York City. "The Mayor," explains Clark Whel-ton, a mayoral special assistant and speech writer, "admires chess players and admires the game, even though he's not a player himself. "The May reception is a way of saluting the New York City chess community.

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ABOUT BOOKS Making the case for a leaner Pentagon the Senate Armed Services Committee, the annual fights are over the size CROSSWORD By William Canine advantages of one weapon over another. In lockstep with defense contractors who employ their constituents, members of Congress push through new weapons systems that serve their own interests rather than the defense of the country, he argues. ACROSS 1 Make a (try) 5 Ternpo 9 To the point 12 ImpJdres 16 Africa's largest city 17 Muscats America Can Win: The Case for Military Reform. By Sen. Gary Hart with William Llnd.

Adler Adler, 301 pages, $17.95 By LANCE GAY It's the American way that every Pentagon military operation since World War II has produced a corps of second-guessers who dissect the chaos of a battlefield and find things could have been done differently if only their advice had been followed. The latest to join the ranks is Sen. Gary Hart, who insists the United States really hasn't overcome a military challenge since 1945. Pity the United States. We "tied" in Korea; lost in Vietnam; failed in a series of commando operations from the Mayaguez to the Iranian rescue disaster, and won a grudging victory in Grenada only after elite forces from the Army's 82nd Airborne Divison took three days to subdue 100 ill-equipped Cuban construction workers.

"This long string of military failures is the most important reason we need new defense policies," Hart says. "A military system that consistently fails in combat endangers our existence as a nation." THE TAXPAYERS have lavished more than $1 trillion on the Pentagon For specifics, Hart pulls out press clippings on the Army's Bradley Fighting Vehicle, a poorly designed aluminum troop carrier the Army refuses to sub ject to a live-fire test because it ill explode if hit in the right place. While the Navy builds expensive new submarines, it does not have enough torpedos to reload them. The Army doesn't have enough spare parts, ammunition or equipment to fight a prolonged war, and the Air Force allocates so much of its budget to new airplanes that pilots get only half the flying time as their Israeli counterparts. "Today with armed forces ill-prepared for combat, we are insecure, and no matter how much we spend we will remain insecure," he says.

HART'S SOLUTION: Scrap expensive weaponry, teach the military how I 2 3 4 i 7 8 11 14 16 I 17 15 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 J27 2 29 30 I 31 32 33 34 35 1 36 37 38" 39 40 7T 42 43 "144 45 146 47 48 49 50 51 52" 53 54 IT" 56 58 59 61 62 j63 TTW 64 Ml 68 67 J68 7" 69 70 tTtT 74 I 175 176 77 78" 79 80 81 32 I 83 84 85 j8T 89 90 9 92 96 97 98 j99 '00 iT "102 L--L-i 104 loT 106 ioT 108 109 110 117112 "1113 114 iiT Ti5 us VJ9 10 I2T" 12?" 123 124 I2I 12l SEN. GARY HART Johnny-come-lately on reform since 1980, but Hart argues America is no stronger militarily because the additional money has only been spent on muscle weapons expensive nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, main battle tanks, error-plagued hightech missiles and supersonic jet fighters designed to fight the sort of wars the Pentagon is unlikely to fight. In Congress, where Hart serves on 18 Part of a sentence 20 Gudruns hgsband 21 ScQttish-born pirate "Captain" 23. And others, for short. 24 Regretted 25 Martina's dou tiles -partner 26 Chargers 27 Swift sailing 29 Bygone bird 30 Hebrew letter: Varv- 31 Gosand Bibb 32 Chwed up 34 Snow, on Mont Blanc-36 Ninepin 40 Musician's deg." 42 AiN Prefix 44 Annual spans 46 Proclaims loudly 47 Wrest 48 Namesakes of a Forsyte 50 Withered 52 States 53 Dding strip 55 56 So there! 57 Ceremony 58 Sound from a bagpipe 59 Rhea relatives 61.

Swashbuckler's, arm 63 Connecting word 64 Defense acronym A first novel shows promise The answer to the Los Angeles Times Crossword puzzle is below. to ngni oeuer wun less expensive equipment, build up war reserve supplies, and bludgeon the admirals into fighting their wars from submarines because giant surface ships are plum targets easy to hit and destroy. This all sounds reasonable and there are military experts who will agree with Hart's well-argued ideas. But where has Gary Hart been for the last six years of the Pentagon military buildup? Although he says he is a cofounder of the congressional Military Reform Caucus, Hart hasn't been as active in trying to turn Congress around as some other members. IT IS Rep.

Jim Courter, the New Jersey Republican, who pounds away weekly on weapons that don't work and Pentagon policies that need changing. It was Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, who stampeded a reluctant Congress into creating an independent office to test new weapons systems. Sen. Sam Nunn, is the leader each year of efforts to force NATO allies to pick up more of their share of defense spending, while Senate Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman William Roth, is the one ADOLESCENT Dwight Cope lives in a small apartment in Chicago with his dying grandfather, Hazard Harker, a quiet and silently angry man who raised Dwight's mother, Vera, in much the same puzzling, grumpy manner.

To a largeextent, this is a novel about escape how each character tries to flee a barely tolerable life. Dwight looks to old late-night movies at the Drake Theater. Vera leaves Hazard to go to Arizona with a man she hardly knows. Hazard has only the erratic Chicago Cubs as his solace. Hazard had only his knowledge of the Cubs to give to Dwight: "The most useless knowledge of all.

Anything else he will get on his own or not. I have nothing to teach him. The past was one type of pain, now another. Nobody teaches pain." Hancock teaches us that good writers and very good novels are being published by non-major companies. The reviewer it with the Wilmington News-Journal, a Gannett paper.

Into the Light. By Alex Hancock. Creative Arts, $15 or $7.95 (paper) By ROLF RYKKEN Gannett News Service One axiom of a fiction writer's life is that it's tough to get that first novel published by a major company -unless he has something tremendously commercial or have a good conection, such as stories in The New Yorker. Over the past decade, serious writers with only a good manuscript to offer have been looking to small, quality publishers willing to take a chance on them. One such publisher is Creative Arts Book Co.

of Berkeley, whose offering, Into the Light, by Alex Hancock, could stand beside any first novel from Knopf. While Hancock's novel embraces the traditional subject of a first novel the sensitive adolescent's rite of passage into adulthood it is much more. It is impressively mature, weaving in several strong characters through their own voices. 66 "TwQ.Ton"' 9 Prevention 40 Blunderbusses 81 Flumes people 41 Modest 84 Moorish 10 Word with fours 43 Turncoats pirates or point 45 Buccaneers 87 Exiles 1 1 Part of the ear 49 River near 88 Cracks 12 Packer Minsk 89 Room for personage 51 Letter from church 13 Small case Athens meetings 14 Intervale 54 Regretful word 92 Fashion name 15 Flank 60 Sun. oration 94 Color worker 16 Tata, in Turin 61 Coloring 98 More elegant 19 High seas matter 1 00 Nervy" marauder 62 Art- 102 Pump part 21 Steno's 65 Pirate 104 Final touch criterion John Rackam 106 Tapestry 22 Less kind 67 Creed 108 Sandarac tree 27 New South 69 Handbook 109 Secured, Wales town 70 Flimflams 110 Short letter 28 Diamond 71 Pentateuch 111 Mimicked 31 Tells tall tales 72 Roman Helen 1 12 Dreadful 33 Low points 74 Speck 113 Less, in Roma 35 Good looker 77 Standard for 21 117 Topper 37 Shape up Across 118 Sandhurst 38 Slow, to 78 Russian range inst.

Strauss. 79 The Darlings' 39 Hogback canine 84 Mexican state 117 Knighted 85 Field of study buccaneer 86 Concept: 119 Simple Prefix 120 Canterbury's 88 Recent summit county city 121 Paul of pop 90 Bator music 91 Cassava 122 Playwright 93 Khartoum's Rice country 123 Pindarics 95 Seasoning, in 124 RT neighbors Sedan 125 Baubles 96 breve 126 At hand 97Dinghy 99 Categorizes DOWN .101 In a furtive 1 Potpourri manner 2 Sesame 103 Exults 3 Bristlelike 105 Eucharist plate structure 107 Callow 4 Petty olficer 110 "Pirate King- 5 Jostled dom" of old 6 Starch 113 Diving birds ingredient 114 Granada gold 7 Bounders 115 Heroic 8 Finale 116 Greek letters Tony 68JFKor 70 Fr. holy woman 73 Prince of Darkness 'V- 75 coin 76 Emigrant from Acadia wno exposea me tauits ot tne uramey and Pentagon spare parts scandals. The reviewer coven Congress tor Scripp Howard News Service. 80 Inventor Samuel 82 Youngster 83 Lit doubled PUZZLE ANSWERS Solvers added up last week's THE A bleak look at World War II through Australian prism Kin: 3 BS I II IBS PUZZLE easily.

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Downs, Mt. Ephraim; Williams family, Mt. Laurel; Richard M. Wang, Mt. Royal; Gail Strauss, Friendly Ice Cream, as does the story of Delaney's infatuation with his daughter, Danielle.

The memory of what happened to his family during the war haunts Kabbel, driving him to an apocalyptic vision of the future of the world and a mad series of actions that draw the helplessly smitten Delaney ever deeper into a web of murderous actions that threaten to destroy both his marriageand his budding athletic career. KENEALLY HAS written a dense, thoroughly modern novel, obsessed with the ideas of sin, madness and retribution. Along the way, he relates a good deal of enlightening historic detail concerning the fate of Belorussia, along with some insightful comments on the state of modern society. The reviewer is with the Wilmington News-Journal, I Gannett paper. A Family Maduess.

By Thomas Ken-eally. Simon and Schuster, $17.95 By RICK MULROONEY Gannett News Service Although he has been writing fine, well-crafted novels for more than 20 years, Australian novelist Thomas Keneally is not considered a "bankable" author. He is not able to command half -million-dollar advances, nor is he assured of a long run on the best-seller lists. Each of his 15 published novels has been excellent in its own right, obviously the product of careful research, deep reflection and painstaking writing. But each has gone its own way thematically, defying easy summary of what a Keneally novel is likely to be.

What seems to matter most to Ken eally is the human spirit, particularly its reaction to extreme stress. In The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith, for instance, he explored the surprisingly murderous reaction to a lifetime of discrimination by a mild-mannered Australian aborigine. KENEALLY'S MOST recent novel until now and his most successful commercially was the acclaimed Schlndler'sList, a fictionalized retelling of the story of the German Catholic Oskar Schindler's selfless protection of a group of Jewish refugees from the Holocaust. A Family Madness also draws on the experience of victims of Hitler's Nazis but, in characteristic fashion, concentrates on a little-known sidelight of that monstrous conflict and then uses it as background to a more modern story. Madness is set in modern Sydney.

Its protagonist is Terry Delaney, an up-and-coming Australian Rugby League player who moonlights as a security guard to supplement his as-yet meager income from the game. Taking a job with the curiously named Uncle Security, he is drawn into sinister circumstances fomented chiefly by the company's quirky owner, Rudi Kabbel. KABBEL IS a refugee from Belorus-sia, an Eastern European province overrun first by the Germans and then by the Russians during World War II. His father was a provincial official who, desperately hoping that an independent Belorussia would emerge from the war, collaborated with the Germans in destroying both Jews and Russian sympathizers. The story of Kabbel's experiences during that time unfolds gradually Joanne Pepino, Pennsauken; Jackie Snyder, Pitman; Evelyn Bartello, Rancocas Woods; Gary V.

Nichols, James Bohley, Rlverton. Carolyn P. Fox, Runnemede; Bob Quinn, Sewell; Christine Dunleavy, the Slackhouses, Sicklervllle; Berry family, Kathleen M. Zarr, Somerdale; Louise Barikian, Jean Neild, Stratford; John H. Walters, Vincantown, Diane Gardner, Vineland; Michael Coitello, Gwenn Gilday, Voorhees; Yvonne Reckard, Wenonah; Joe Jean Medio, Westmont, Lou Evans, W'ville; Karl Chris Ivins, W'mstown..