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Titolo: Fischer news

Dalla Reuters :
Japan Court: Bobby Fischer Can Be Deported
Fri Aug 20, 2004 11:02 AM ET 
TOKYO (Reuters) - A Tokyo court on Friday rejected a request by former
world chess champion Bobby Fischer to have the Japanese authorities halt
procedures to deport him, his lawyer said.
Fischer is wanted by the United States for violating economic sanctions
against Yugoslavia and has been in detention in Japan since last month,
when he was stopped at Tokyo's Narita airport as he tried to leave for
Manila on a passport that U.S. officials say was invalid. 
"This does not mean that he will be deported right away," Fischer's
lawyer, Masako Suzuki, told Reuters, adding Justice Minister Daizo
Nozawa still had to respond to a separate plea from Fischer. No
deportation order has been issued, she said. 
The eccentric Fischer, considered one of the greatest chess players the
world has ever seen, has been wanted in the United States since 1992
when he violated economic sanctions by going to Yugoslavia to play a
match against old rival Boris Spassky. 
Suzuki revealed on Monday that Fischer, 61, planned to marry Miyoko
Watai, acting head of the Japan Chess Association. It was not clear if
that would help his case with the Japanese authorities. 
He has also been trying to renounce his American citizenship as a way of
avoiding deportation. 
He can only do that by telling a U.S. official face to face, but until
now he has had no response to his request from the U.S. embassy in
Tokyo. 
However, speaking to a Philippine radio station from his detention
center, Fischer said late on Friday that the U.S. embassy in Japan had
finally agreed to send an official to see him so he could formally
renounce his citizenship. 
"Hopefully, I'll be out of this stinking hole soon," he told Manila's
DZRH radio station in a live, hour-long phone interview littered with
anti-Semitic and anti-American remarks. 
Asked to talk about "pleasant things," he said: "Here's something
pleasant. I want to talk about the destruction of the U.S.A." 
After the Sept. 11 attacks, Fischer said in an interview with another
radio station in the northern Philippines that the United States had got
what it deserved for its foreign policy. 
The former champion did not spare Japan and the Philippines, criticizing
Tokyo for getting involved in Iraq and the Philippines for its high
crime rate, although he praised Manila's decision to withdraw its troops
from Iraq. 
Fischer became world chess champion in 1972 when he beat Spassky of the
Soviet Union in a victory touted as a Cold War propaganda coup for the
United States.
He lost the title three years later after his conditions for a match
against Anatoly Karpov, also of the Soviet Union, were rejected by chess
officials. Karpov became champion by default. 
Fischer's movements over the past decade remain something of a mystery
but he is known to have spent time in the Philippines. 
Fischer's supporters say he renewed his U.S. passport in Switzerland in
1997 and never received a letter issued in December 2003 revoking it.
State Department officials in Washington have said it took years for the
legal process to catch up with him.

 what it deserved for its foreign policy.
!!!!!!!
Fisher-U.S.A.
da che punteggio ELO partono?
Fabio D.V.