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Let's Play Chess Fri, May 5, 1972 – 25 · Deseret News (Salt Lake City, Utah) · Newspapers.com
…As of our last report, Fischer had not yet replied.
Dr. Euwe also said that Fischer would lose the right to play for the title if he failed to accept.
Under an earlier agreement, half the 24-game match was to have been played in Belgrade and the other half in Reykjavik. But Belgrade withdrew as a sponsor after Fischer demanded a share of the profits in addition to [Belgrade organizers demanding] a guarantee.
Iceland has offered to stage both matches in the title series.
The Soviet newspapers have let loose a series of charges against both Fischer and Dr. Euwe.
Despite Fischer's “caprices,” the USSR Sport said, “Euwe continues to engage in an endless exchange of telegrams and wants the world to accept a new round of negotiations.”
The FIDE President is on a tour of the Asia. The “USSR Sport” attacked him for “hiding in the bushes while the fate of the match dangles on a thread.”
The paper said Euwe's conduct leads to a possibility that the match may be “torpedoed.” ([Yes, of course, by Soviet troublemakers.])
The Russian newspaper also called Fischer “an unworthy challenger” to Spassky. It recalled Fischer's strongly anti-Russian comments said through the years and said the American's aim was “super-high fees” for matches. ([Which is better than maintaining a monopoly over world sports through an imbalanced and unfair “state-subsidized” system of payouts while foreign players are at a disadvantage and expected to fork up expenses from their own pockets.)]
