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Author Re: Request for Arbitration of Paul Rubin vs. Sam Sloan
Ralf Callenberg

2006-08-03, 2:40 am

Paula Lemming wrote:
quote:

> "Ralf Callenberg" <Who cares about a chess player crossing borders because
> of a romance? It is just a small footnote in an appendix.
>
>
> It does not have to be important to be a DEFECTION.


My remark addressed Sam's claim, that this incident might have been
important for the fall of the Iron Curtain.
quote:

> but it was still
> called a DEFECTION.


Defection or not, in 1988 it wasn't anymore an act for which you might
got shot or sent to Sibiria.

Greetings,
Ralf
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