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DIED. RUDOLF AUGSTEIN, 79, influential founder and publisher of the liberal, often combative postwar German newsweekly Der Spiegel, which quickly moved away from Nazi-era press restrictions to champion tough investigative journalism; of pneumonia; in Hamburg. Augstein went to prison for treason in 1962 in what became known as the Spiegel Affair: after the magazine published an article critical of NATO, police arrested journalists, an act that drew international scorn and helped lead to the downfall of West German Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss...
...contacts across Europe." The French too were alarmed. "We're absolutely scrambling here," said a harried top French terrorist judge. "Every light in every service in France is full red." Europeans have long known that terror groups are active in their midst - whether in elaborately organized groups like the Hamburg cell that supported Mohamed Atta or the smaller, less formal network that investigators believe assisted the attempted shoebomber, Richard Reid. But what has officials spooked right now is an emerging pattern of threats that suggest an attack may be imminent. Far less clear is what governments expect people...
Katarina Runesson has spent half of her undergraduate career thousands of miles away from her college at the University of Eähjö in Sweden. The globe-trotting political science student has studied in Seoul, South Korea; Managua, Nicaragua; and, most recently, Hamburg, Germany. This fall, she’s capping off her world tour here in Cambridge as part of Harvard’s little-known Visiting Undergraduate Student (VUS) program...
...Defense, but with the sides switched, the human world champion managed to lock the pawns in the center of the board, depriving the tactical monster of the open lines it needed for a flashy attack. After only two and half hours of play, the Moscow grand master offered the Hamburg computer a draw on the twenty-eighth move and Deep Fritz immediately accepted. With the score now tied at three and a half points apiece, the eight-game match will be decided in the final confrontation on Saturday. Four hundred thousand dollars is riding on the game; the king...
...Sept. 11--style attack in the near future, the group is now more dispersed and thus more difficult to track. "They can operate in ones and twos," says a White House aide. German authorities nabbed one last week, arresting Abdelghani Mzoudi, 29, a Moroccan suspected of ties to the Hamburg cell of Sept. 11 ringleader Mohamed Atta. Meanwhile, according to the New York Times, U.S. intelligence officials are investigating reports that Ramzi Binalshibh, a Qaeda operative arrested in Pakistan last month, may have been the head of a fifth hijacking team, assigned to crash an airliner into the White House...