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Chess-playing computers generally use a brute-force approach. Looking four to eight moves ahead, they examine every possible play and counterplay and choose the move that minimizes their opponent's gain. The Cray, scanning 100,000 chess moves per sec., can usually come up with a winner. Hitech lacks...
Yurchenko's defection sent a major shock wave through the mysteriously intertwined network of East-West espionage, which has been vibrating all summer with a series of defections and reactions. Three weeks after Yurchenko's disappearance, Hans Joachim Tiedge, a senior official at West Germany's counterintelligence agency, called in...
Some opponents contend that SDI will hurt the civilian economy and the U.S. position in world trade. Says Hans Bethe, a Cornell physicist and Nobel laureate: "The best engineers will go into SDI because the technical problems are fascinating. Meanwhile, we can't make an auto to compete with the...
Meanwhile, West German officials announced that a husband-and-wife team of suspected spies had fled to East Germany. The pair were identified as Herbert Willner, 59, a defense expert influential within the Free Democratic Party, and his wife Herta-Astrid, 46, a secretary in the office of West German...
The defection could hardly have come at a more opportune time for Western intelligence officials, who are still smarting under the impact of the Walker spy case in the U.S. and the defection to East Germany last month of Hans Joachim Tiedge, a senior West German counterintelligence officer. The British...