Even though he exaggerates and is downright coldhearted, I think he is right about the role he was given during the chess championship match with Spassky. Is Fischer anti-semite or just anti-zionist?
Always interesting to hear from Fischer.
Thomas
--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> [just catching up with the Harper's pile...]
>
> Harper's - March 2002
>
> [Diatribe]
>
> THE BIN LADEN DEFENSE
>
> The following conversation between Bobby Fischer and
> radio host Pablo
> Mercado was broadcast September I I on the
> Philippine radio station
> Bombo Radyo. In 1972, Fischer became the first
> American to win the
> World Chess Championship; he fled the United States
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