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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!caen!malgudi.oar.net!uoft02.utoledo.edu!dcrosgr
  2. From: dcrosgr@uoft02.utoledo.edu
  3. Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
  4. Subject: Re: Pardon Fischer?
  5. Message-ID: <1992Dec24.153728.630@uoft02.utoledo.edu>
  6. Date: 24 Dec 92 15:37:28 EST
  7. References: <1gpafnINN8bb@tamsun.tamu.edu> <1992Dec18.210943.10605@midway.uchicago.edu>  <1992Dec21.101710.587@uoft02.utoledo.edu> <1hcu7eINN2s6@parsifal.umkc.edu>
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  12. In article <1hcu7eINN2s6@parsifal.umkc.edu>, chris@kasey.umkc.edu (Christopher Mitchell) writes:
  13. > In article <1992Dec21.101710.587@uoft02.utoledo.edu>, dcrosgr@uoft02.utoledo.edu writes:
  14. >>In article <1992Dec21.045954.5444@midway.uchicago.edu>, hau4@ellis.uchicago.edu (sven  hauptfeld) writes:
  15. >>> Nonsense. Fischer wasn't indicted for playing chess, but for doing business.
  16. >>
  17. >>What business was that...was it:
  18. >>
  19. >>1. Operating a 7-11?
  20. >>2. Selling US passports?
  21. >>3. Playing Chess?
  22. > Try staying in Yugoslavian hotels...travelling...eating...etc.  Not to mention
  23. > cashing in on a 3.5 million dollar prize within the boundaries of and taxed
  24. > by Yugoslavia.
  25. > Though I view Bobby Fischer as somewhat of an American asset and though I don't
  26. > believe that he should spend a minute in jail (though he could well afford the
  27. > maximum fine), he did violate a U.S. law (no matter how silly you may believe
  28. > it).  Nowhere is it written in the U.S. Constitution that chess players are
  29. > exempt.  
  30. > Chris
  31.  
  32. Also, nowhere does it state that the US has power over people in foreign
  33. countries...
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  37. > --
  38. > |                      |
  39. > | Chris Mitchell       | Academic Computing Services
  40. > | chris@kasey.umkc.edu | University of Missouri - Kansas City
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