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- Subject: Re: Pardon Fischer?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.164624.757@uoft02.utoledo.edu>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 16:46:24 EST
- References: <1992Dec28.105407.685@uoft02.utoledo.edu> <1992Dec29.053404.22836@midway.uchicago.edu> <1992Dec29.092353.707@uoft02.utoledo.edu> <1992Dec31.060957.17312@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec31.060957.17312@midway.uchicago.edu>, hau4@ellis.uchicago.edu (sven hauptfeld) writes:
- > Well, I really don't feel like continuing the discussion with that
- > D(ull) M(oronic) C(lown), so I'll jump to a so-far-unmentioned thing about
-
- Very mature Sven, you ARE improving.
-
- > the match. Many people have asked what good the match was for Yugoslavia, if
- > it took $5M _out_ of the country, and many of them were not that convinced
- > that the propaganda effects were sufficient.
- >
- > So far, nobody has pointed out that the match had a big positive effect on
- > the morale of Serbian people - note that chess is much more popular there
- > than here in the US. It is a situation opposite to the one that arose when
-
- Ahh, Fischer's crime was to improve morale...I see.
-
- > Yugoslavia was banned from the European Soccer Championship - it was the
- > hardest consequence of the war that had hit the Serbs up to that point!
- >
- > But now they were entertained, placated, their attention drawn away from
- > their growing economic misery, and their wish to overthrow the fascist
- > government weakened. They even re-elected them!
-
- Gee! Maybe Bush should have paid Fischer $5 million to have the match here so
- he could have been re-elected.
-
- >
- > Now this was worth (for Milosevic&Co.) far more than $5M.
- >
- > I hope there is not many more than one person who doesn't see the difference
- > between participating in this entertainment business and just playing chess.
- >
- > Sven
-
- Gee! We should have held chess tournaments during Viet Nam! We would have WON!
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- >
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