Chess Pro (Fischer) to Appeal Japan's Decision to Deport Him | LA Times

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Chess Pro to Appeal Japan's Decision to Deport Him
Bobby Fischer risks being sent to the United States, where he is wanted for defying a presidential order.

By Bruce Wallace, Times Staff Writer

TOKYO — After two weeks of incarceration in an airport detention center, Bobby Fischer has agreed to hire a lawyer and will appeal the Japanese government's decision to deport him, supporters of the former world chess champion said Saturday.

Fischer has been in custody at Tokyo's Narita International Airport since July 13 for allegedly traveling on a revoked U.S. passport. He is wanted in the United States for defying a presidential order against doing business in the former Yugoslavia by playing a chess exhibition there in 1992.

Fischer contends that the passport was illegally revoked because he never received legal notification from the U.S. government.

The decision to appeal means that Fischer has not — as reported in The Times on Friday — told Japanese authorities he considers himself a German citizen. Supporters in Tokyo and the United States had been urging him to do so, pointing out that the chess legend is entitled to citizenship because his father, Hans Gerhardt Fischer, was a German.

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1. LOCK CHENEY UP, TOO!

he is guilty of the very same things only on a much larger SCALE :argh:


Halliburton Iraq ties more than Cheney said
NewsMax Wires
Monday, June 25, 2001
UNITED NATIONS, June 23 (UPI) -- Halliburton Co., the oil company that was headed by Vice President Dick Cheney, signed contracts with Iraq worth $73 million through two subsidiaries while he was at its helm, the Washington Post reported.

During last year's presidential campaign, Cheney said Halliburton did business with Libya and Iran through foreign subsidiaries, but maintained he had imposed a "firm policy" against trading with Iraq.

"Iraq's different," the Post quoted him as saying.

Oil industry executives and confidential U.N. records showed, however, that Halliburton held stakes in two companies that signed contracts to sell more than $73 million in oil production equipment and spare parts to Iraq while Cheney was chairman and chief executive officer, the Post reported.

more...
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/6/24/80648.shtml

peace

[Jack Rabbit]

2. One of my favorite Fischer games

Bobby Fischer v. Miguel Najdorf, Chess Olympiad, Siegen 1970 (Sicilian Defense)

This is how to keep your pieces active in the endgame.