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SAN MARCOS — Some of the people most
dosely following the Bobby Fischer-Boris Spassky
chess rematch in Yugoslavia will be found in the
Hays County Jail.
Chess-playing inprates have been taking the
moves printed in newspapers and replaying the
games.
"We like to use the games in the paper as a
foundation for our games," said Charley Stewart, 42.
“Most of the guys are doing it just to pass the time.
Some of us are pretty diehard."
The jail administrator, Capt. Larry Haynes, said
chess has caught on with about 10 percent of the
inmates.
"There are those that like that kind of challenge.
Anything like that can be therapeutic," Haynes said.
Stewart, who used to pass time between San
Antonio College classes at the chessboard, said he
and a group of about six in his unit spend as many
as four to eight hours a day playing the game or
studying chess strategy.
A mechanic sentenced for auto theft, Stewart said
there is more to the game than just passing time in
jail.
"It's taught me a lot of discipline," he said.
"Crime on the side was just something that
happened. Chess taught me to think before you do
something."
Jason Montgomery, an inmate who learned to
play the game in the Williamson County Jail, said
chess also serves to ease stress and pressures in a
tense prison atmosphere.
"Guys here have a lot on their minds. It's
important to have something they can sit down and
mentally exhaust those energies. Chess takes away a
lot of stress," he said.
Because of that, the Hays County Jail makes
boards and pieces available to inmates. In the Texas
Department of Corrections, chess tournaments are
staged periodically at different institutions, said
Coleman Porter, the department's recreation
supervisor.
"I think it helps inmates think ahead, get from
point A to point B," Porter said.
Stewart, who will be spending three years in
prison, said he hopes the next time he is free he can
use some of the lessons he has learned from chess.
PARIS — Smoke-filled bistros
and cafes, an inimitable part of
the French image, are likely to
become battlegrounds in a war of
wills when an anti-smoking law
takes effect Nov. 1. Confusion
and outrage seem certain before
the air clears.
Restaurants, hotels and offices
are preparing frenetically for the
new regime. But in a country
where many view smoking as
among life's pleasures, where the
pungent odor of state-produced
black tobacco abounds, not
everyone is enthusiastic.
Salesmen peddling ventilation
equipment "are descending on
companies like a flock of
sparrows," said Jacques The,
president of the National Hotel
Industry Federation.
The law outlaws smoking in
many enclosed places,
strengthens smoking regulations
already in effect in public
transport, and demands that
those in charge of enclosed public
areas "assure the protection of
non-smokers."
"It's aberrant, stupid,"
Germaine Bourel, owner of the
Cafe St. Philippe, said of the law.
"People go to a cafe to relax, have
a cigarette, talk. It's part of life."
She and her husband, Rene,
both non-smokers, are dutifully
installing ventilation. But, in
what may be a bending of the
law, they are relegating non-
smokers to the cafe's small back
room.
"We can't be gendarmes," she
said.
France has one of the highest
rates of smokers in western
Europe — 40 percent of all adults,
according to 1991 figures. People
aged 18-24 account for the
highest proportion of smokers.
The Health Ministry says
smoking causes 54,000 deaths
annually in France, and cuts
heavy smokers' lifespan by eight
years.
The law, adopted in January, is
part of a progressive crackdown
on smokers, including a
staggered price increase. A bill
headed to Parliament proposes
raising cigarette prices 15 percent
by late 1993.
The new fines for errant
"fumeurs" range up to $260.
Employers and others in charge
of making their premises fit for
non-smokers risk fines of up to
$1,200 and prison terms.
"There is a general fear," they
said. "Professionals are
traumatized and think the police
will come down on them Nov. 2."
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