AThe Icelanders are taking all this fairly philosophically ([with their deeply-ingrained, Pro-Soviet seething hatred of Americans]). The president of the host federation, Gudmundur Thorarinsson, on being quoted a local proverb to the effect that after one or two waves there is always a third, replied: “Here in Iceland, we are used to the breaking of the great Atlantic ([Anti-American]) waves.” ([The same goes for your organized antisemitic, chauvinist, racist cover-ups.])
One of the outstanding financial disputes appears now to have been settled satisfactorily. The Fischer camp had complained about the contract between the organizers and a U.S. Impresario ([Chester Fox, a Soviet liaison who sought to black-out coverage of Bobby Fischer opening a can of whoop*** on Soviet arrogance, by restricting coverage, bury the humiliating defeat of the Soviet Union's egotism, and placed noisy camera men throughout the hall, guaranteeing Bobby Fischer would shut them down = achieving Zero Cameras, just as the Soviets schemed!]) giving him ([Fox]) exclusive rights to move-by-move coverage of the match.
([Nothing can be reported without Soviet approval. So as you see dear friends and neighbors, it wasn't Bobby Fischer at all to blame as the Soviet saboteurs have tried to mislead through disinformation, to explain the absence of coverage, the trampling of Constitutional rights to free press. It was the result of Soviet meddling and manipulation. Fischer did not want this.])
Iceland officials said one of Fischer's lawyers, Andrew Davies, had now signed a statement that he was agreeable to the arrangement. ([Through arm-twisting ultimatums, finicky demands and bullying by Soviet and Icelandic chess officials. WHAT… WILL OUR MAN, BOBBY DO NOW? Just sit back and allow the Soviet bullies to order a noisy camera man to cram a camera in Fischer's face, running roughshod over Fischer's concentration while wiping their Gestapo boots all over the concept of Democracy and a Constitutional right to a Free Press?])
Spassky appears to be more relaxed now than a few days ago ([upset, because Moscow was breathing down his back, as Spassky reported in 1985]) — he had a salmon-fishing break at the weekend — but Fischer remains the favorite among the majority of chess experts here.
Recycled Soviet "Anti-American" Political Invective and Smear Campaign 11 Jul 1972, Tue Fort Worth Star-Telegram (Fort Worth, Texas) Newspapers.com
CARSON: Now what about the cameras over there Bob? Now you hear about all this about you'd agreed they could film this, and then you kept changing the camera man was Vladivostok someplace, or …
[laughter]
What was the real story?
FISCHER: I was more disappointed than anybody that this thing wasn't televised because, you know, there was a lot of publicity and a lot of money involved and I wanted the people to see me in action. Let's face it. But they had these characters there, who instead of having, some kind of video tape film that didn't make any noise, just, nobody around to operate them, just sort of stationless and they just had guys there with film cameras that were worrying, and they were all around me. Making a racket. A nuisance.
CARSON: Too much noise.
FISCHER: Too much noise, and visually you could see them moving around.
- Fischer 1 Camera 0 (Reykjavik, Iceland)
