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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Sunday, October 20, 1985

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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 20, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday october 20, 1983 the stars and stripes pages Fri says Feen hackers foyer of with Bank records new York not a group of at least 23 teen agers broke into a Chase Manhattan Bank computer installation by Telephone in july and August and significantly damaged Bank records the Fri said Friday. Chase officials said no Money was stolen or transferred out of customers accounts As a result of the break ins and said no intrusions have been selected recently. But a Federal affidavit said that in several cases he youths changed passwords preventing custom ers and in one ease n unit of the Bank itself from gaining Access to Thor computer files. Suspects in the Case were identified after Chase and the Fri using a court order set up an electronic trap in the computer system that traced the cads to More than a score of Homes in the san Diego area. On tuesday night nearly 50 Fri agents armed with search warrants Sci de 25 personal computers from the Homes. They made no arrests. They said it was the Fri. And i said. Of. Sure " a woman at one of the addresses on the search warrants said in a Telephone interview Friday speaking on the condition thai she not be identified. On Guy took out a badge and they were the  Federal officials said that most of the offenders arc probably too Young to be prosecuted. Robert d. Rose an assistant . Attorney said we re not yet sure what we arc going to do. But these things can pet out of hand it did get out of hand and pc have to treat them  the incident appeared to be the largest Case of com Puter hacking to involve a Bank and embarrassed Chase and its data processing subsidiary. Interactive data corp. In Waltham mass. Chase officials had no comments Friday about the incident apart from insisting that no customer accounts were stored in the computer. They would not give details of the damage caused by the teen age computer users but in at least one Case the Bank s description of the incident differed sharply from that provided by Federal investigators. Steven v. Rauton Borg a Chase spokesman said they did not Access any accounts and the id com Puter system was not related to Money  but in san Diego both Rose and Fri spokesman Gary Laturno said that in at least one Case the outs gained Access to an account in which they could have manipulated funds though they did not actually trans Fer any Money. It seems they were capable of making the Transfer Rose said. They just did t do  while details were sketchy Friday interviews drew1 a picture of Bank officials bewildered and a bit frightened by a series of seemingly inexplicable events in one of their key computer systems. Tuesday night those same emotions were Felt b parents of High school students in san Diego who found teams of i Iii agents in their Homes interviewing their children and dismantling their computers. According to investigators the incidents be an in july when a number of Una Thori cd computer users dialled a toll free Telephone number connected to the id computer in Wal Ham. Id handles much of  c s data processing and records including records of Home mortgages and according to some officials the portfolios of major customers such As pension funds. In addition the subsidiary s computer contains data bases used for economic forecasting by the Bank s economists and outsider subscribers. We re not talking about a computer with just inter Nal records said one Federal investigator we re talk ing about a computer with records identifiable to specific  on july 22, Bank officials discovered a message in the computer from an outsider who identified himself As lord  the message said that unless the in Truder was Given free use of the computer he would destroy records in the system. Aluminium bolts on c-56 replaced with steel Marietta. A. A a new air Force transport plane grounded for a month because of the use of 12,000 of the wrong bolts in the construction of its fuse Lage has been cleared for More flight test ing the manufacturer says. Lockheed Georgia co. Said the air Force approved renewed testing of the first huge c-5b plane after the aluminium bolts were replaced with steel ones. The company c7.ects to deliver the plane to the air Force before its Jan. I due Date said . Meadows Lockheed Georgia s director of the c-5b program. We were ahead of schedule before this came up. So now we just have a Little less Cushion Meadows said. Lockheed Georgia has a $7.4 billion con tract to build 50 of the planes. The contract is fixed Price meaning the company cannot charge the Cost of replacing the bolts directly to the air Force. Company officials have refused to Esti mate the Cost of the mistake. The c-5b, first flown in scptcrnu., v is grounded when the aluminium bolts were discovered in some areas where steel bolts were required. Meadows said the engineering drawings used by Assembly workers and supervisors did not adequately specify what bolts were needed in some areas. The company is inspecting parts of seven other c-5bs on the Assembly line at inc Marietta Plant. Meadows said. Joan Kennedy says sex Secretary betrayed Trust with distorted Book Boston a Joan Kennedy says her former Secretary who like herself is a recovered alcoholic has betrayed alcoholics Anonymous very special Trust by Dis closing mrs. Kennedy s private life in a Book. She said the Book is inaccurate and distorted. In a one Page statement issued thursday mrs. Kennedy said she hired the author Marcia Challis in october 1979 primarily because i believed that As we were both recovering alcoholics she would never violate the twelfth tradition of the . Which states anonymity is the spiritual foundation of our tradition Ever reminding us to place principles before personalities " her statement did not elaborate on what she thought is inaccurate in Challis Book living with the Kennedy the Joan Kennedy Story which describes the former wife of sen. Edward Kennedy d-mass., As an outsider who was overwhelmed by the Kennedy family and became increasingly dependent on alcohol. One of the most important reasons for writing the Book was to bring to Public attention the disease of alcoholism Chellis told the Boston Herald. Any suggestion that it betrays confidences made in connection with alcoholics Anonymous is a Joan Kennedy it can put a lot of undue pressure on them. And that s u by we like to have anyone who comes Here be  is. Challis betrayed that very special Trust and her a Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago foday. Oct. 20, 1945 the opening Dale of inc War criminal trials in Nuernberg has been Sel nov. 20 b the International military tribunal As 23 lop ranking a is were handed 24.00 a turd indictments. A 24ih accused War criminal Martin Horn Iann has not Al been arrested. 30 years ago foday oct. 20. 1955 Jesse Owens who Sel world records in the sprints and braid jump 20 years ago was named the greatest track and Field athlete of All time in a poll con ducted by the International publication. Track and Field news in los Altos. Calif. 20 years ago foday oct. 20, i %5 members of Congress expressed their concern about Castro s new open door proclamation the state department has predicted at least 5.000 Refu gees a Munich will arrive in the United Stales. 10 years ago foday. Oct. 20. 1975former special watergate prosecutor Henry s. Ruth or. Said the Liming of president Ford s sept. 8, i "74, Pardon of Richard Nixon was atrocious and extremely  potential disservice to the people i had hoped to  count contains Many inaccuracies and  said mrs. A spokesman Dick Luce told the newspaper when Kennedy. She said she has not spoken with the author who people find out a Well known person is going to meetings. Lives in he same Boston apartment building for some Lime suicide flight follows South Carolina murder Charleston . Up an awol Sailor killed his wife and stole a plane for a suicide flight Friday plunging past a Highway to die in a fiery crash against a fuel Bank at the Navy shipyard in Charleston authorities said. We re treating it As a murder suicide said police chief Richard Ruonala of Goose Creek a Charleston suburb. Navy Petty officer . George w. Cherry stabbed his wife to death late thursday in Goose Creek and drove to Goldsboro n.c., where he stole a twin engine Piper and hew Back to Charleston Ruonala said. Cherry 29, a licensed flying instructor was killed when the plane rammed into the base of an empty Oil storage tank and burst into flames at 9 09 ., about 50 Yards from a heavily used Highway Navy spokes Man Pat Dooling said. There were no other injuries and Navy firefighters put out the fire. It did t miss the Highway by much Dooling said. Had it hit on the Road there would have been some  the plane appeared to be going full Speed ahead and looked like it was going to land said Bobby Turner who saw the crash on his Way to work. But i knew there was t an Airfield on the base so 1 knew it was going to  Ruonala said a Van rented by Cherry was found abandoned with blood stained seals at inc Wayne county Airport in North Carolina at 7 30  Friday about seven hours after his wife s murder. Police found a note in the Van. The note had the phone number of his wife s parents and asked that they care for her dog. The Small dog was in the Van. Goose Creek police issued an arrest War rant against Cherry charging him with kill ing his wife. Belva Cherry 26, was found dead from Stab wounds in her Home at the Branchwood apartments. The plane thai crashed at Charleston matched the description of the plane stolen in North Carolina said Bill Nettles of the Fri Charleston office. It does appear to be an intentional crash nellies said. Ruonala said Cherry and his wife had been separated since july and the Navy had reported Cherry absent without leave for at least a month. The police chief said investigators did not know the motive for the slaying. The couple had no known history of Domestic disturbances he said. Belva Cherry a dental Hygin Ceisl was a very very quiet Young lady very Well though of at her Job he said  
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