The Shreveport Journal Shreveport, Louisiana Thursday, July 20, 1972 - Page 1
Fischer, Spassky Begin Fifth Game
Reykjavik, Iceland (UPI) — The fifth game of the $250,000 world championship chess match started on schedule today—without the television cameras opposed by American Bobby Fischer.
Sources in New York said a tentative agreement was reached earlier in the day permitting the ([CLOSED-CIRCUIT, automatic, un-manned, stationary]) cameras to record the event. Icelandic organizers said they were 90 per cent certain the cameras would be allowed back in the hall for today's game. ([But the Soviets do not want the tournament filmed under any circumstances. Their humiliating defeat must be censored via media blackout without exception.])
There was speculation earlier that Fischer would relent in his protests and allow the game against world champion Boris Spassky of Russia to be broadcast on closed circuit television. ([Naturally, because “Closed Circuit Cameras” are the devices Fischer was misled to believe would be utilized from the outstart. The same closed-circuit devices Fischer stated emphatically, was his desire, all along. Closed-circuit camera was used in the opening of game 3, to which Fischer had no objections. Instead, the Soviets and Icelandic organizers took it upon themselves to bring in bulky, human-operated crews of men, operating large television equipment to disrupt the match. When Fischer protested the deliberate intrusions during game one, including one man with a camera reported by Golombek as crawling on the roof and training his camera on Fischer, whom on Cramer's insistence the trespasser was removed by police. Lothar Schmid angrily declared the shut down of that camera man to the whole world, stating it was not his decision. The confession of guilt on behalf of organizers, duly noted! The rules of the match were simple: If Fischer demanded the visibly, and audibly disruptive men operating the cameras be removed, they were to be removed, without delay! But the Soviet/Icelandic organizers chose to break those rules, then fed false reports about the event through to western newspapers. These events, circumventing truthful coverage because the match was buried in an Anti-American, Racist haven near the North Pole, is a clear motive for the Soviets to cherry pick Reykjavik as host for the 1972 tournament, to bury coverage for all eternity.])
