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Black male, 12, wishes to play chess and, somehow, stop the ghetto madness...
...plays chess...
This is franchise chess at its most violent. When a struggling team sells out a large fraction of its home games and still gets sold down the Mississippi River...call it the Rape of Minneapolis, Part II. The North Stars are already gone, and now this...two franchise departures does not a Warren Moon arrival equal...
...never suffered war, their wars have always been somewhere else. They think it's like a chess game, moving the pieces from one side to another. This can't go on, this must...
President Clinton warned last year that "we will not allow the North Koreans to develop a nuclear weapon." That threat is easier made than implemented. The North Korean problem is a four-dimensional chess game where each major player -- the U.S., North and South Korea, and the IAEA -- fears the political consequences of making concessions and the military consequences of getting tough. Last week a new player appeared on the scene when Russia tried another opportunistic raid into U.S. diplomatic territory by proposing an international conference to settle Korea's problems. Washington politely dismissed the idea as a harmful diversion...