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Summary:On September 14 1975 tennis star Martina Navratilova was explaining her decision to defect from her native Czechoslovakia and ask for political refuge in the United States. She said she had done so for the sake of her career and not for reasons of politics. She wanted to be free to compete in all the world's top tournaments without having to ask official permission.
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