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<DIV><FONT color=#000080>i just love this lady.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message -----
<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=dhenwood@panix.com href="mailto:dhenwood@panix.com">Doug Henwood</A>
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<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=lbo-talk@lists.panix.com
href="mailto:lbo-talk@lists.panix.com">lbo-talk</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, June 26, 2002 3:30 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Martina on the US</DIV></DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>[thanks to Sam Smith's Progressive Review]<BR><BR>Tennis Great
Navratilova Attacks U.S. Values<BR>Wed Jun 26, 8:06 AM ET<BR><BR>BERLIN
(Reuters) - U.S. tennis great Martina Navratilova criticized <BR>her adopted
homeland in a German newspaper on Wednesday, saying money <BR>is the only thing
that matters there.<BR><BR>Navratilova, a Czech-born American who won 18 grand
slam singles <BR>titles when she dominated women's tennis in the late 1970s and
1980s, <BR>also wrote in an article for Die Zeit weekly that she believed free
<BR>speech was being suppressed in the United States.<BR><BR>"The most absurd
part of my escape from the unjust system is that I <BR>have exchanged one system
that suppresses free opinion for another," <BR>said Navratilova, 45, who fled
Czechoslovakia at the age of 18 to go <BR>to the United States.<BR><BR>The
nine-time women's Wimbledon ( news - web sites) champion, who <BR>still plays in
some doubles tournaments and last week played in a <BR>singles tournament at the
Eastbourne International Championships in <BR>England, singled out President
Bush ( news - web sites)'s Republican <BR>Party for unusually harsh
criticism.<BR><BR>"The Republicans in the United States manipulate public
opinion and <BR>sweep any controversial issues under the table," Navratilova
said.<BR><BR>"It's depressing. Decisions in America are based solely on the
<BR>question of 'how much money will come out of it' and not on the
<BR>questions of how much health, morals or the environment suffer as a
<BR>result."<BR><BR>Navratilova, who is openly homosexual, said she fights
actively for gay rights.<BR></BODY></HTML>