AThe Marion Star Marion, Ohio Saturday, July 15, 1972 - Page 1
A Hornet's Nest of Racist, Anti-American Bigotry and Intolerance the Soviet Knowingly Selected for 1972 Tournament
One of the participants on a radio talk show proposed that “Fischer and all the foreign reporters be given eight hours to get out of Iceland or be shot.”
Now why would the American delegation possibly “demand” police protection. Does the upper echelons of the chess establishment ever remind anyone in the chess community of the bitter atmosphere full of racist, chauvinist hostility, and the fact the Soviet Union... selected... and FORCED this specific, notoriously inhospitable location on Robert Fischer? No? Of course not, because its “old hands” are still running the show.
A Hornet's Nest of Racist, Anti-American Hostility the Soviet Knowingly Selected for 1972 Tournament 15 Jul 1972, Sat The Marion Star (Marion, Ohio) Newspapers.com
From the 1971 Taimanov-Fischer tournament hosted in Vancouver B.C., Canada, all available 1971 contemporary news reports were reposted here, chronologically and we learned in spite of the Soviet delegation's biting, insulting ridicule of the host country University's campus, threats were made by the Soviets, including one prohibiting Spassky to play in Canada! Not by the Canadians, but the Soviets, rather than maintaining a calm, polite, professional, gracious composure. Where was the Soviet show of gratitude to their Canadian host? How many Canadians or American “provincialists” were featured in radio talk shows, verbally endangering the lives of their Soviet visitors? Or when Larsen and Fischer had their tournament in Denver, Colorado, and Larsen complained about the climate? How many American “provincialists” participated in radio talk show, giving Larsen cause to fear for his life? How many Argentinian “provincialists” made Petrosian feel his life was in danger?
Why isn't FIDE bringing this up, and recycling... recycling... recycling... recycling... recycling... I take SERIOUS issue with it, when our citizens are having their lives threatened. And the implicit unwelcoming emphasis on “foreigner” did not escape me.
