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...Korchnoi, 50, conceded his final defeat to Defending Champion Anatoli Karpov, 30, six games to two with ten draws. The pair, known to chess fans as "K-2," traded off-court insults during much of their 51 days of play. Soviet Wunderkind Karpov takes home $280,000. Korchnoi, a defector from the U.S.S.R., $170,000. A nice check, mates...
Korchnoi, a burly, voluble Russian defector, arrived from a Swiss health retreat accompanied by an entourage Muhammad Ali would envy. Spokesman Emanuel Sztein sported a Solidarity button and passed out postcards demanding that Korchnoi's son Igor, 22, be released from a two-year prison sentence for draft evasion and that Korchnoi's wife Bella be allowed to join him. Korchnoi's party also included an American yoga instructor, who sat in the first row at the opening game last week wearing an orange sari...
...fear runs: the Senate Budget Committee last week estimated that Reagan's spending and tax plans taken together would produce a near record $60 billion deficit in fiscal 1982, or $10 billion above even Jones' figure. That chilling estimate prompted the three conservative Republicans to bolt. Said Defector William Armstrong of Colorado: "The only way we could salve our consciences and vote for the '82 [Reagan] budget was to show credibly that we were on the path to a balanced budget. We are not on that path...
...American incompetence in foreign languages is nothing short of scandal ous and it is becoming worse." One so bering example: when a Soviet soldier hi Afghanistan briefly sought asylum at the U.S. embassy hi Kabul last Sep tember, not one American official there could communicate with the would-be defector in Russian...
asks John Maury, the CIA'S former chief of Soviet operations. "The real problem is to get high-level penetrations of foreign power centers. Oleg Penkovsky (a top-ranking Moscow defector who supplied the U.S. with information on Soviet weaponry in the early 1960s) is worth a hundred Ph.D.s." But Penkovskys are not going to approach a porous...