The Times Streator, Illinois Monday, July 10, 1972 - Page 4
The Day Arrives
After a tremendous publicity build-up the world championship chess game is scheduled to begin tomorrow—if there is not some other excuse devised to stall it longer. One could understand the reams of publicity coverage, if the match were to be played in an American stadium ([POIGNANT OBSERVATION as to why the Soviets would want to move the match to the north pole and far away as possible from modern communications and satellite broadcasting technology…hoping the American people would “look away” from the Soviet as recipient of an ego-shredding defeat felt across the world]) with 75,000 watching, but it is being played at Reykjavik, Iceland which is about as far off the beaten path as possible to go ([and strategically selected by Moscow's propaganda think tank.])
Few have ever heard of either the American Bobby Fischer or Russian player, Boris Spassky but both have admitted they're the best in their respective countries and that makes it a world champion contest.
There is one advantage to the publicity preliminaries to the game, for it is an escape from some of the more serious issues which confront the world — it takes Americans away from the McGovern-anti-McGovern fight which started for real in Miami this afternoon.
If it isn't the chess game, it's something else that Americans have to worry about — perhaps the ball game.
([Some cite strong "Anti-American" hostility since 1951 with 10% Soviet population spreading Anti-American propaganda while Icelandic policies placed strict limitations on blacks. Fischer's mentor/guest Archie Waters reports being the ONLY black man anywhere near the Sports Arena! Hostile Anti-Americanism is "why" USSR selected the racist haven and due to non-existence of satellite communications the Soviet achieved a blackout on news coverage of the match.])
The Day Arrives 10 Jul 1972, Mon The Times (Streator, Illinois) Newspapers.com
