Author: Norm Pollock
Date: 05:36:34 07/16/04
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On July 16, 2004 at 07:26:52, David Mitchell wrote: >On July 16, 2004 at 06:49:13, Norm Pollock wrote: > >>On July 16, 2004 at 03:28:15, David Mitchell wrote: >> >>>On July 16, 2004 at 02:57:52, Slater Wold wrote: >>> >>>>http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apasia_story.asp?category=1104&slug=Japan%20Bobby%20Fischer >>>> >>>>"Officials were preparing to deport him to the United States, the Asahi Shimbun >>>>newspaper said Friday, citing unnamed sources." >>>> >>>> >>>>He's coming to the US, where he'll spend the rest of his life behind bars. >>>> >>>>Exciting end to his life, eh? >>> >>>Fischer's paranoia and anti-semitism (which is ironic because he's part jewish), >>>will certainly not help his case, however, he's not guilty of anything except >>>traveling to Yugoslavia and, probably the more serious charge, of failing to pay >>>taxes on his prize money. >>> >>>Doesn't sound like a lifetime sentence to me. Just hope he doesn't kick & bite >>>some federal marshall on the way back. :) >>> >>>Dave >> >>Sounds like he will serve his time in a mental hospital instead of jail-time. > >Naw, we'll just have Rolf T give him a touch of his "magic", and he'll be fine! >:) > >Dave He could make so much money in the US and elsewhere. He could give simuls at $500 per board. But he just keeps getting checkmated by his mental illness. And today there are so many meds out there that can help him too.
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