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- From: hau4@ellis.uchicago.edu (sven hauptfeld)
- Subject: Re: Pardon Fischer?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.045856.13741@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- References: <1992Dec18.210943.10605@midway.uchicago.edu> <1992Dec21.101710.587@uoft02.utoledo.edu> <1hcu7eINN2s6@parsifal.umkc.edu>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 04:58:56 GMT
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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.
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- For the sake of truth, none of these is forbidden.
-
- > Not to mention
- >cashing in on a 3.5 million dollar prize within the boundaries of and taxed
- >by Yugoslavia.
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- I don't know if it is taxed by Yugoslavia, but it is irrelevant. His partici-
- pation in this business is a crime. And by no means a victimless one.
-
- >
- >Though I view Bobby Fischer as somewhat of an American asset
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- Perhaps you should view it as an American burden.
-
- Sven
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