| Sam Sloan 2005-03-28, 9:53 pm |
| On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 20:10:40 -0800, "David Kane"
<davidekane@comcast.net> wrote:
quote:
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>"Sam Sloan" <sloan@ishipress.com> wrote in message
>news:423f8eb8.29922281@ca.news.verio.net...
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>This is incorrect. There were a number of executive orders, but the
>one Fischer violated was designed to align US policy with
>UN sanctions, and was not restricted to government dealings.
Not true. There was only one executive order that had any application
to this case. That was Executive Order 12810.
Strangely I have not been able to find the exact text of Executive
Order 12810 anywhere. There are numerous references to it, but the
exact words do not seem to be available anywhere.
Here is one of the references to it:
On May 30, 1992, by Executive Order 12808, President Bush declared a
national emergency to deal with the unusual and extraordinary threat
to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United
States constituted by the actions and policies of the Governments of
Serbia and Montenegro, blocking all property and interests in property
of those Governments. President Bush took additional measures to
prohibit trade and other transactions with the Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) by Executive Orders 12810 and
12831, issued on June 5, 1992, and January 15, 1993, respectively, and
on April 25, 1993, I issued Executive Order 12846 imposing additional
measures.
The point is that the orders prohibited trade with the "Governments of
Serbia and Montenegro". The chess match that Bobby Fischer played was
not sponsored by the government. It was sponsored by an opponent of
the government who in fact fled the country immediately after the
chess match was over. There are also questions as to whether a chess
match constitutes "trade" and whether by playing the chess games Bobby
Fischer created an "unusual and extraordinary" threat to US National
Security.
Sam Sloan
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