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...chess aficionados from all over began to gather, much of the early betting was not on who would win but on just how many of the Soviets accompanying Anatoly Karpov, 27, the slim, intense defending champion from Leningrad, were actually intelligence agents. The chief of the Russian group, Victor Baturinsky, an ex-KGB colonel who heads the Soviet Chess Federation, was surely not saying-and would scarcely let Karpov utter a word either. "We are here to play chess, not to talk," he scowled to newsmen. "Even in the Soviet Union, we have to hide him from being bothered...
...Cronin's bar and restaurant will undergo a major physical change," Victor Imhof, brother of the new owner, said yesterday. Although the kitchen, lounge and dining hall will be renovated, the bar will not close during the work...
...Victor Imhof disagreed, saying, "Nobody wanted to come in because it was too dirty and dark. With six people for lunch, you can't make any money...
...Lasky Syndrome enters here: in his bestselling book last year called It Didn't Start with Watergate, the muckraking conservative journalist Victor Lasky detailed prior presidential offenses-what he says were Franklin Roosevelt's uses of the FBI to dig up scandal on his enemies and to tap the home phones of his top advisers, the spectacular array of extramarital affairs that Jack Kennedy paraded through Camelot, the Kennedy wiretaps on Martin Luther King Jr., and so on. Why was only Nixon driven from office for his offenses when he had such precedents for misbehavior? The three articles...
...because execution does not match conception. Simon's literary palette is as lacking in delicate hues as Director Moore's visual one. It is bold to plunk Rick's cafe down in Sam Spade's San Francisco. It is even mildly funny to have Victor Laszlo require his wife's old lover to help him get not letters of transit so he can escape the Nazis but a liquor license so he can open a French restaurant in Oakland. But when the song that reminds Rick of his lost love (As Time Goes...