AThe Akron Beacon Journal Akron, Ohio Wednesday, July 12, 1972 - Page 6
Bobby Fischer Defended
To The Editor: If Bobby Fischer were subsidized by our government, as Boris Spassky is by his, then people would not consider him an “Ugly American,” as one writer to you put it. His challenging for the world championship of chess gives laymen a pleasure.
KENNETH J. SHAFFER, 404 Stanford Street
Bobby Fischer Defended 12 Jul 1972, Wed The Akron Beacon Journal (Akron, Ohio) Newspapers.com
Fails to elaborate on the finicky, overbearing demands and complaints of European organizers who refused for months to sort out details before match. Belgrade's illegal demand of 35K USD “guarantee” refused by USCF! Australia's legal $225K bid snubbed by Russia, threatening they “would not play”. USSR selecting Anti-American, Racist Iceland who restricted entry of blacks and news coverage. Schemes to disqualify Fischer and replace with Petrosian, etc. by “Ugly Soviet Chauvinists”.
