On May 13, 10:48 am, J=FCrgen R. <jurg...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Mike Murray" <mikemur...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > On Tue, 13 May 2008 05:57:05 -0700 (PDT), "parrthe...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > <parrthe...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >>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."
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> >>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."
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> > 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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> Fischer put the Serbian money in a Swiss bank, UBS, unaware
> that the Swiss bank secrecy laws are now essentially
> ineffective when U.S. citizens are being pusued by the
> U.S. authorities.
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> UBS, under pressure from the U.S. Department of Justice
> and, presumably, the IRS, froze his account.
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> Bobby didn't pay his taxes either. U.S. citizens and greencarders
> must file U.S. tax returns and pay U.S. taxes, no matter where they
live.
UBS did not freeze RJF's account; rather, it chose not to do business
with him.
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