European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 6, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Breaking the code focuses on computer Pioneer 8y Gregory Jensen United press internationale Ven now decades after the fact some of the men who shaped the Way we live today remain totally unknown. A remarkable new play in London concerns one of hem. His name was Alan Turing. He was the Fisl visionary Pioneer in the held of computers. What s mom Many experts say no Man played a greater single role in winning world War ii. Yet Only now in works like Hugh while More s new play breaking the code Are Turing s name and achievements creeping Oul of Complete obscurity Derek Jacob plays this forgotten Genius with a stutter like he used in i cute uterus. His portrayal and Whitemore s script have the Verlue of making no extravagant claims simply Selling out the acts. They Are remarkable enough. In 1936, Alan Turing wrote a mathematical paper which Laid the foundation or computer science. M first outlined the principle of the modern computer Long before such a thing could be built. In the play Jacobi has one Long Lucid speech explaining the ideas in Turing s computable numbers paper. Ii brilliantly lakes mathematics into the realm of philosophy. After the War Turing built and ran one of the world s earliest digital computers. Playwright Whitemore stresses his dream of machines that think anticipating today s work on artificial intelligence by decades. Yet Turing s wartime achievement May have been even More important. In life As in the play he joined a wildly eccentric melange of chess experts and mathematicians at a stately Home called Bletchley Park. Their Job was 1o break nazi Germany s secret codes Turing was assigned the Moat important and unbreakable code called  the German High command used this code to pass its highest level orders to nazi armies and Wolf pack submarines. Historians Only now Are discovering How vital to winning the War deciphering the Enigma code proved to be. Turing was the key figure in breaking it. Winston Churchill was his special Champion and a grateful government decorated him for his work. A recent commentator called Turing one of the most extraordinary englishmen of this  yet until recently hardly anyone even knew his name. This is partly because of the extraordinary secrecy which cloaked the whole Bletchley code breaking operation a fact Whitemore s play ignores. The Lull Story in t known even now. Not until 1974 was the curtain lifted a Little. Only then did a me mothers team what their sons and daughters had done during the War 30 years earlier. Some of Turing s work will remain classified until the end of the Century. But turing1 achievement began coming to tight in a 1983 biography the Enigma of intelligence by mathematician Andrew Hodges a year later a scottish University renamed its research Branch the Turing Kwh Rituta Whitemore s play emphasizes another reason for Turing s Long obscurity his homosexuality. Turing  social code blatantly at a time whim in Britain All homosexual acts were criminally illegal. The main framework of breaking the code is his arrest and prosecution under these since repealed anti had the Side effect of making him grow breasts. A year alter the injections stopped in 1964, he killed himself by eating an Apple he laced with cyanide. He was 41. While More s play wanders haphazardly through three decades of Turing s life. It is sober intelligent and continually gripping. But Only in rare flashes does it demonstrate what was unique about a an Turing. We never see him Al work never understand flow he could make breakthroughs which Defeated everyone else. Jacob s portrayal of this flawed forgotten Genius is tremendous. He turns himself into a Schoolboy merely by changing his posture. Mover of stage he is convincing Down to his flawlessly consistent Claudius Fike stutter. While More taking about his play says Alan Turing was a Type of Renaissance Man a. Theorist via Lounary and a practical Man. He had ideas which were enormously tar reaching and ambitious and he put them into  breaking the code depicts these characteristics vividly. What is less Wen conveyed perhaps is a rounded picture of the curious Genius once described As a Man who was outwardly Gray but who thought in rainbows.". Minority against minority conflict Between Blackland asian americans to urinal was convicted and placed on probation on Curg Jorj fat take female hormones to kill desire. They by Leon Daniel United press International angry Black pickets who closed a chinese carryout in the poorest Section of the nation s capital Are part of a nationwide drama that threatens to erupt into the grim reality of racial violence. The ugly scene in overwhelmingly Black Southeast Washington is part of an Issue affecting other Urban areas. There is escalating hostility by Blacks who believe themselves exploited by Small family owned stores operated by an emerging asian american merchant class. What is happening in Washington s Anacostia neighbourhood just across the River of the same name from the Capitol has economic and political implications for other Illjes where asian americans primarily koreans have met animosity after opening businesses in Black ghettos. Seven Boston area refugee organizations have formed a coalition to combat racial stereotypes and misconceptions hoping to overcome resentment that asian immigrants might be competing with other poor people for jobs and housing. In California five korean shopkeepers have been killed in South los Angeles since april. Police do not attribute the killings to racial animosity but Blacks in the City have expressed resentment that koreans appear to be prospering while Black unemployment remains High. I is a conflict that pits minority against minority in a culture clash too often grievously misunderstood by both Sidas. In Washington on sept. 27. Cheung Hung Chan a chinese american was arrested after an argument in his Good Hope carry out in which he allegedly threatened customer Sarah Carter with a gun. Chan faces a dec. 15 rial on charges of carrying an unlicensed pistol a charge of assault made at the time of arrest was dropped. Carter however has filed a $1 million civil lawsuit alleging malicious reckless and criminal conduct. Both Chan and Carter who have steered dear of tile press since they reportedly clashed Over a pizza order presumably will air their grievances in court. The widening conflict Over this mundane Issue prompted picketing that closed the carryout and continues to thwart Chan s plans to reopen it at an Anil Chan rally in the parking Tot of his closed establishment Black leaders Alto targeted other asian american businesses in the Community. The dispute rigging accusations with Blacks who saturday december 6, 1986 oppose the picketing contemptuously branded As oreos Black on the outside White on the inside. The Leader of the picketing is hav. Willie Wilson who with his supporters has vowed to Force Chan out of Ana Estla and change the ownership of other businesses from asian american to Black. His critics charge Wilson is a manipulator who uses his Union Temple Baptist Church a Block away from the closed carryout As a Power base to disseminate a racist philosophy. I supporter ii let Wilson a journalism graduate of Ohio University is a charismatic Black Leader whose economic Militancy is vital to curing Anacostia s twin afflictions of poverty and crime. It s not a racial Issue Wilson insisted in an interview at his Church. It s an economic  Wilson s Church grounded in 1960b-Blytescuvtsm that emphasizes the african heritage of a members has grown in 13 years from 30 to 1,300 members. Wilson said Blacks must achieve Power and control Over Anacostia a Economy and thai Means replacing with Black ownership Many of the Small businesses now run by industrious asian american families mostly korean who employ Law Beckt. Wilson who unabashedly compares his Ana costs Campaign to struggles Ted by or. Martin Luther King or. And Mohandas Gandhi said the Canyoun to Dent in example of economic and physical disrespect Chan forfeited his right to do business to this Community by doing something that makes him a danger and ," Wilson said. Other Community leaders disagree sharply contending that Wilson s Campaign is fundamentally racist Bernard Gray an Ana Cosilla lawyer who supports Chan s efforts to re open his store described a recent rally led by Wilson at the closed Canyoun  ohm without taking sides urge a negotiated settlement of the dispute that is polarizing the Community but so far such efforts have failed. . Mayor Marion Barry and other City officiate hive Mel separately we Thodi Wilson and Chan without evident Success. Meantime  Alouda Pear outside a music store blares excerpts from the fiery c-3 sermons of Louta fam Ahari. Leader of to Milant adj eng Mam. Two blocks away at site Reskof Avic Canhoto g