USSR Will Lose Championship. Their Time Grows Short to Pack Even More Biased Anti-American Nonsense Into Headlines
With the Soviet succeeding to bury the match, by isolating the tournament in the very Anti-American, Racist Iceland, the Soviet has monopolized the ability to control the narrative coming out of Reykjavik and has basically, smeared Robert Fischer's desire for the tournament to be properly filmed, in his face.
Instead of silent, automatic closed-circuit cameras, the Icelandic-Soviet chess officials have proceeded to bombard the auditorium with disruptive crews of men operating large, bulky cameras, intent on disrupting Fischer's concentration. Of course, news reports back in America tell a different story, of “hidden” cameras that can neither be seen nor heard. A result of the match being isolated and news channels to the world cut off, while the Soviet can now bury their humiliating defeat before it ever reached the world's eye.
The Soviet-influenced press is bombarding world newspapers with false reports as if Fischer is simply “wishy-washy” and bound to change his mind any day about these large, bulky, disruptive crews of camera men… and daily, rehashing and repeating the same rubbish about meetings and negotiations and even false reports that cameras will be permitted into the auditorium. One story says yes, another says no. When the Soviet rumor mill stories about filming do not come to fruition, the Soviet press then, further uses it as another opportunity to bash Fischer's reputation some more, as if Fischer once again, “changed his mind at the last minute.”
“…But Fischer's personal representative, Fred Cramer, said the 29-year-old American challenger “has not changed his mind” about his objections.
Fischer claims the ([disruptive men operating large, bulky television]) cameras disturb his concentration.”
-The Lexington Herald Lexington, Kentucky Thursday, July 20, 1972
And furthermore, “Colonel Edmondson said that under the rules of a world championship tournament, Fischer had a right to demand the removal of the cameras and to refuse to play if they were not removed.” - The New York Times, July 20, 1972
Fischer isn't half as “unpredictable” as the quarrelsome Soviet has tried to make out. It really couldn't be more clear or that difficult to understand.
