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- From: dcrosgr@uoft02.utoledo.edu
- Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
- Subject: Re: Pardon Fischer?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.104417.683@uoft02.utoledo.edu>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 10:44:17 EST
- References: <1992Dec18.210943.10605@midway.uchicago.edu> <1992Dec21.101710.587@uoft02.utoledo.edu> <1hcu7eINN2s6@parsifal.umkc.edu> <1992Dec28.045856.13741@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec28.045856.13741@midway.uchicago.edu>, hau4@ellis.uchicago.edu (sven hauptfeld) writes:
- > 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.
- >
- > 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.
- >
- > 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
- >
- > Perhaps you should view it as an American burden.
- >
- > Sven
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- He has contributed more to the country than you have...
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- But, that is just my belief. Tell us Sven, what HAVE you given the U.S.?
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- >
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