Canadian gadfly smooths Fischer's squirrelly image
Communications consultant helps chess master fight deportation battle
By The Globe and Mail / by Estanislao Oziewicz
Thursday, August 19, 2004 - Page A3From Fredericton to Quebec to the Balkans to Japan, John Bosnitch has a knack for being front and centre.
As student president at the University of New Brunswick, he duelled with an administration that declared him persona non grata. He also ran unsuccessfully in a Fredericton mayoral election.
He was the key witness in a police-brutality case....Mr. Bosnitch said he has not investigated reports of anti-Semitic or anti-U.S. comments by Mr. Fischer. "I only set one rule for myself when I decided to volunteer to help him," he said. "I promised myself that I would not allow myself to be diverted from the single issue of defending Bobby Fischer's legal human rights."
...An ethnic Serb, Mr. Bosnitch later became co-ordinator of the Tokyo-based InterMedia Center News Agency, which criticized some Western news organizations for being anti-Serbian.
... in heated struggles with the [University of New Brunswick] administration over control of the student council during the 1980s.
Mr. Bosnitch said he was eventually forced from office and banned from the campus -- unfairly, he still maintains.
