Fugitive Chess Champ Is Granted Citizenship
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Iceland’s Parliament granted citizenship to former world chess champion Bobby Fischer, paving the way for the fugitive American to settle in the North Atlantic island republic where he won the world title in 1972.
Fischer, 62, is being detained in Japan and is fighting a U.S. deportation order. He is wanted in the United States on charges of violating sanctions against the former Yugoslavia by playing a chess match there in 1992. Icelandic officials said Fischer’s passport could be ready as early as today.
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