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Greg Britz and Mark Fusco were picked to play in the annual East-West game March 28 in Bloomington, Minn. The game features seniors from Divisions...
Even at the peak of detente, the Soviet Union reserved to itself the power of the press: no American general-circulation publication was ever translated and sold on newsstands to ordinary citizens. Last week, during an era of renewed East-West tension, that barrier was broken in a small way: Soviet officials distributed 20,000 copies of the first issue of In the World of Science, a Russian-language version of Scientific American (worldwide circ. 1 million in eight languages) that is being produced under a licensing agreement with Mir, a Moscow publishing house. Said Yevgeni Velikhov, vice president...
...than two years-"the most unpleasant years" of his life-for permission to come through. Again, Bernstein got on the early side of good fortune, as the visa came through just in time for him to join the last big wave of Russian emigres. With the recent cooling of East-West relations, emigration from the Soviet Union has slowed to barely a trickle, but Bernstein got out, and he came almost directly of the United States...
...growing interest in so-called LineX espionage, the theft of high-level technology (see box). Says former CIA Director Richard Helms: "Under Andropov, the Soviet Union has refined and expanded its intelligence targets. The new focus is on technology." Last October, officials of COCOM, the NATO committee overseeing East-West technology transfers, estimated that more than 20,000 Soviet and East bloc agents are now at work pilfering the latest Western gadgetry, and have whittled down the West's overall technological lead from ten years to about two. Prime American targets are the East Coast's high-tech corridor stretching...
...Warsaw Pact. Foreign Minister Emilio Colombo announced that the Italian government had taken measures to reduce sharply Bulgaria's diplomatic presence in Rome and to make it harder for Bulgarians to enter Italy. He expressed concern that Bulgaria's action, if proved, would have grave consequences for East-West relations. Said he: "It would be difficult and dangerous to travel alone down a road that carries us to a conspiracy so complex and intricate...