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Bobby Fischer case take more time

What a skuzzy market. Might grab some VRMD/p but geez prob
fall from what 0.40 open Mon and still have to pay $20+ for SEC fee or whatever for RS. Sick of those. 1:25 I can see but lately anything >1:50 drops on next Open. Look ARSK AFRT GWAD PCCL etc. TSBB sicky today, hmmm.

TOKYO (Reuters) - A decision on whether to deport former world chess champion Bobby Fischer -- wanted in the United States for defying a ban by playing a match in Yugoslavia in 1992 -- will take more time, a Japanese immigration official said on Friday, one week after Fischer was taken into custody in Tokyo.
Fischer was detained at Tokyo's Narita airport last week when he tried to leave for the Philippines on an invalid passport.

A friend, Miyoko Watai of the Japan Chess Association, has said that Fischer, 61, was appealing the move to deport him and seeking help from lawyers in a bid to obtain political asylum in a third country.

"I think it will take a bit more time," said the Japanese immigration official when asked whether a decision had been made.

He declined to comment on the exact status of Fischer's case. But he said that in principle an appeal could be a two-stage process in which an initial verbal appeal, if rejected, could be followed by a complaint to Japan's justice minister.

Fischer, one of the great eccentrics of the chess world, has been wanted for arrest by the United States since 1992 when he played a match against old rival Boris Spassky -- and won -- in Yugoslavia despite U.S. economic sanctions.

Fischer first won the world chess title in 1972 by beating Spassky, of the Soviet Union, a victory seen as something of a Cold War propaganda coup for the United States.

The so-called "Match of the Century" took place in Reykjavik, Iceland, and made Fischer a celebrity in the United States.

In 1975 Fischer lost his title after his conditions for a match against Anatoly Karpov, also of the Soviet Union, were rejected by chess officials. Karpov became champion by default.

Fischer disappeared until the 1992 match against Spassky, whom he again defeated, taking about $3 million in prize money.

He then disappeared again, resurfacing after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the United States to give an interview to Philippines radio praising the strikes. Fischer, whose mother was Jewish, has also stirred controversy with anti-Semitic remarks.

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