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- Subject: Re: Pardon Fischer?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.153728.630@uoft02.utoledo.edu>
- Date: 24 Dec 92 15:37:28 EST
- 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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- In article <1hcu7eINN2s6@parsifal.umkc.edu>, chris@kasey.umkc.edu (Christopher Mitchell) writes:
- >
- > In article <1992Dec21.101710.587@uoft02.utoledo.edu>, dcrosgr@uoft02.utoledo.edu writes:
- >>In article <1992Dec21.045954.5444@midway.uchicago.edu>, hau4@ellis.uchicago.edu (sven hauptfeld) writes:
- >>> Nonsense. Fischer wasn't indicted for playing chess, but for doing business.
- >>
- >>What business was that...was it:
- >>
- >>1. Operating a 7-11?
- >>2. Selling US passports?
- >>3. Playing Chess?
- >
- > Try staying in Yugoslavian hotels...travelling...eating...etc. Not to mention
- > cashing in on a 3.5 million dollar prize within the boundaries of and taxed
- > by Yugoslavia.
- >
- > Though I view Bobby Fischer as somewhat of an American asset and though I don't
- > believe that he should spend a minute in jail (though he could well afford the
- > maximum fine), he did violate a U.S. law (no matter how silly you may believe
- > it). Nowhere is it written in the U.S. Constitution that chess players are
- > exempt.
- >
- > Chris
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- Also, nowhere does it state that the US has power over people in foreign
- countries...
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- > | Chris Mitchell | Academic Computing Services
- > | chris@kasey.umkc.edu | University of Missouri - Kansas City
- > | |
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