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>SILENCE OF THE LAMBS
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>< I must have missed what happened in the dinner meeting at the last Olympiad,
>which was supposed to help solidify plans for doing something about Kirsan. Can
>anyone fill me in? > -- Jerry Spinrad
>
>Readers may recall that the board authorized $2,000 for our FIDE "team" to
>persuade friendly nations that Kirsan had to go. I publicly opposed this waste
>of money on another useless junket.
>
>As it turned out, Kirsan thumbed his nose at the USA again by not allowing the
>motion to replace him to be placed on the agenda of the FIDE meeting.
>
>What happened at the dinner or the $2,000?
>
>The silence of the lambs tells us all that we need to know.