On Tue, 13 May 2008 05:57:05 -0700 (PDT), "parrthenon@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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<parrthenon@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>Canadian chess journalist Jonathan Berry observed, "It has been
>re****ted that President Clinton in his memoirs said the embargo was
>ignored by all, even the USA government, and it was only enforced to
>the extent that arms were not sent to Serbia. Yet arms were sent with
>impunity to other factions, and other contacts with Serbia were okay.
>If true, the whole incident appears doubly pointless."
>A reader replied, "It’s even worse than that. Serbia allegedly
>received missiles produced in the USA via Israel which makes it
>grotesquely hypocritical to punish Fischer for his 30 games against
>Spassky."
While the blade hovered menacingly over Fischer's head for many years,
AFAIK, the only overt action against him was taken by the Shrub
administration, and then only by the back door of a pass****t
violation, using the Japanese as surrogates. It was a sneaky,
vindictive action which appears to have deliberately evaded addressing
the issues Berry mentions in your quote, above.
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