[again the lie that 1972 was the 'height' of the 'cold war'!]

From CBS, sourced to AP:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/08/16/world/main636113.shtml:

***BEGIN ARTICLE***

New Gambit By Bobby Fischer

TOKYO, August 16, 2004

No recent photos have been released of Bobby Fischer, seen here in
August 1971, before sliding into bizarre behavior that cost him his
championship and reputation. (Photo: AP)

Fischer was detained on July 13 while trying to board a flight to the
Philippines without a valid passport. He is fighting possible
deportation to the United States, saying his passport was revoked
without due process.

(AP) Former world chess champion Bobby Fischer appealed to U.S.
Secretary of State Colin Powell on Monday to help him renounce U.S.
citizenship as he announced plans to marry a leading Japanese chess
official, his lawyer said.

Fischer, wanted in the United States for allegedly violating
international sanctions on the former Yugoslavia, was detained in Japan
last month when trying to travel on a revoked American passport. He has
been fighting attempts to have him deported to the United States.

Fischer's attorney, Masako Suzuki, said she faxed a letter to Powell and
the U.S. Embassy in Japan demanding that an American consular officer be
sent to the chess great's detention center to accept his renunciation of
U.S. citizenship.

In the letter, Suzuki accused the embassy of refusing to send an
official to Fischer, requiring him to come to the embassy in person.
Japanese officials, however, will not allow him to make the trip, she
said.

"Although renouncing U.S. citizenship is a legal right... the U.S.
Embassy in Japan has made it impossible for Mr. Fischer to exercise his
right," said the letter, which was also faxed to news organizations in
Japan.

A separate statement from Suzuki also said Fischer and Japan Chess
Association President Miyoko Watai had signed marriage papers that would
be submitted later on Monday.

It was unclear whether Japanese officials would accept the marriage
application. A Tokyo ward official, Yoshihisa Yabe, said a person in
Fischer's situation would have to either provide a valid U.S. passport
or a U.S. government document confirming his citizenship's validity in
order to get married in Japan.

It was also not immediately clear whether marriage to a Japanese citizen
would affect attempts to deport him to the United States.

Suzuki said Fischer and Watai had been living together since 2000.

Fischer became an American icon when, at the height of the Cold War, he
defeated Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union in a series of games in
Reykjavik, Iceland, in 1972. The win made him the first U.S. world
champion in more than a century.

Increasingly erratic and reclusive, he lost his title as world champion
in 1978 and then largely vanished from the public eye until he
reappeared to play a rematch in the former Yugoslavia against Spassky in
1992.

Though Fischer won, and took home more than $3 million in prize money,
he played in violation of United Nations sanctions and has been wanted
in the United States ever since.

Fischer's opposition to the United States is well-known. In a radio
interview, he once praised the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, saying
America should be "wiped out."

Fischer's renunciation of his U.S. citizenship could possibly leave him
without a country to call his own, Suzuki has said, adding that he had
plans to apply for refugee status with the United Nations High
Commissioner for Refugees.

Fischer's supporters and lawyer are looking for other countries that
might accept him as a refugee.

Fischer has already applied for asylum in Japan, arguing that the
political nature of his "U.S. persecution" makes him eligible for
refugee status in Japan. A decision on that could take months because
the government would probably have to hold a hearing.

Fischer's father is German, and his supporters say he has considered
seeking citizenship there.

***END ARTICLE***

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Congratulations and best wishes on their marriage from me to the
future Mr. and Mrs. Robert Fischer. Live long and be happy.

Also hopefully nothing will come to pass from any of the really absurd
plans to prosecute Bobby for playing chess for money in the Balkan war
zone. For any such
trial to occur would prove to be classical historical example of
legality over justice.

Sincerely, W.H. King, American Republican and supporter of Israel.

wrote in message
om...
Congratulations and best wishes on their marriage from me to the
future Mr. and Mrs. Robert Fischer. Live long and be happy.

Also hopefully nothing will come to pass from any of the really absurd
plans to prosecute Bobby for playing chess for money in the Balkan war
zone. For any such
trial to occur would prove to be classical historical example of
legality over justice.

Sincerely, W.H. King, American Republican and supporter of Israel.

Are u kidding, he is just doing this scam marriage to get out of being
extradited !! The Japs & Yanks will never accept it !

On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 15:17:47 -0400, "Bugsy" wrote:


wrote in message
. com...
Congratulations and best wishes on their marriage from me to the
future Mr. and Mrs. Robert Fischer. Live long and be happy.

Also hopefully nothing will come to pass from any of the really absurd
plans to prosecute Bobby for playing chess for money in the Balkan war
zone. For any such
trial to occur would prove to be classical historical example of
legality over justice.

Sincerely, W.H. King, American Republican and supporter of Israel.

Are u kidding, he is just doing this scam marriage to get out of being
extradited !! The Japs & Yanks will never accept it !

This is not a sham marriage at all. She has been his girlfriend for
many, many years. It is high time they made it legal.

Sam Sloan

..
[again the lie that 1972 was the 'height' of the 'cold war'!]


After sufficient time passes, they will probably refer to the 1972 match as
having "decided the war" between the USA and the USSR.


Fischer became an American icon when, at the height of the Cold War, he
defeated Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union in a series of games


A series of games! They FINALLY got that a chess match is made up of a
"series of "games." Wow.


The win made him the first U.S. world
champion in more than a century.


Of course, William Steinitz held the title from 1602-1776, when Napoleon
defeated him at Waterloo.
So, going backward from 1972, it was well over a century.



Increasingly erratic and reclusive, he lost his title as world champion
in 1978


To Victor Kortchnoi, whose son had managed to escape the Gulag, where Field
Marshall Anatoly Karpov had been torturing him for centuries. Of course,
Fischer was rusty.




and then largely vanished from the public eye until he
reappeared to play a rematch in the former Yugoslavia against Spassky in
1992.


Wow: they got this one right. Blind luck, I assume.

On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 22:11:42 GMT, (Sam Sloan)
wrote:

On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 15:17:47 -0400, "Bugsy" wrote:


wrote in message
.com...
Congratulations and best wishes on their marriage from me to the
future Mr. and Mrs. Robert Fischer. Live long and be happy.

Also hopefully nothing will come to pass from any of the really absurd
plans to prosecute Bobby for playing chess for money in the Balkan war
zone. For any such
trial to occur would prove to be classical historical example of
legality over justice.

Sincerely, W.H. King, American Republican and supporter of Israel.

Are u kidding, he is just doing this scam marriage to get out of being
extradited !! The Japs & Yanks will never accept it !

This is not a sham marriage at all. She has been his girlfriend for
many, many years. It is high time they made it legal.

Really ? Because they lived " in a sinful way " ??
"Taleban" Sloan ....