From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npois!alice!research!dmr Newsgroups: net.chess Title: Belle is back Article-I.D.: research.257 Posted: Tue Jun 8 23:24:46 1982 Received: Wed Jun 9 02:06:34 1982 Just to reassure everyone--Belle has indeed been sprung and has been safely back at Murray Hill since Monday afternoon. It would be unwise for me to go into the politics of the whole fiasco. Suffice it to say, in defense of the Customs Service, that they were less worried about the Soviets widening the Chess Gap than the presence in the shipment of a PDP 11/23, a Micropolis disk, and an HP 2621 terminal. Dennis Ritchie