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On Feb 14, 4:46 pm, "Chess One" wrote:
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**Larry Evans was there.

Yes, I would think Evans would be a much better source than Brady on
this matter.

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Should I press him on it?

Sometimes in the flow of one's own times, it is hard to gain perspective so
as to understand interest and import of subsequent generations. And this was
a rara avis connection, much more mid cold-war, than Rejavik was in 72 - as
much The Great Game as Chess. And such circumstances surrounding the US
president; his current and subsequent actions as we know little from actual
participants to real /engagements/ [Fr.] !

Recently I read Topalov's sense of what it was /like/ to be in
Kalmykia/Elista, surrounded by secret police and everything suspected of
being bugged the hell out of, and of a massive sense of oppression on that
place.

Just a dozen years previous to this Hollywood rather liked Havana, via
Bogart and others, and the whole scene for the Americas is now somewhat
biblical - the lost sheep, et ca,. but a sheep with other experience than
the mainland flock ~ and to continue the metaphor, what is valuable to us
about learning of that? Or are we become as monolithic and
parano~claustrophobic as Russia itself, so that we no longer care about
them, but care they care about us, and that only?

Beyond the chessic aspects of these affairs, there are powerful cultural
ties and implications and futures.

Phil Innes