European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 30, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday december 30, 1985 the stars and stripes Page 5 Chicago s top Street gang files suit claims it s a religion Chic a to Tel run is a name that sends Shivers up the spines of Many chicagoan a who associate it with robbery murder extortion and narcotics. In a Federal trial in Danville. Iii., the Al runs who have been described by Law enforcement officials As the nation s ultimate Street gang arc suing state prison officials for recognition As a religious organization. Their attorney. Thomas Peters argues that it is irrelevant that til runs might engage in crime. I Don t think it makes any difference from a Legal stand Point he said. It s my belief that a group can be a combination of gang members and religious  Al the time the lawsuit was filed in 1979 in behalf of about 100 Al runs in Illinois prisons they described themselves As members of the moorish science Temple of America. Al run  they now Call themselves sunni muslims. Their Imam or religious Leader is Malik whose Given name is Jeff fort. Fort. 38, is serving a 13-year prison term in Texas for cocaine trafficking. It was after he was released on a previous sentence in 1977 that the gang he had led since the 1960s took the name Al run and began describing itself As a religious group. Among Law enforcement officials in Chicago where the Al runs have Headquarters the reaction of Rich Ard m. Daley the Cook county prosecutor is typical. If Al run is a religious group lie said its Sacra ments arc narcotics trafficking intimidation terror and human  Michael r. Lane the Illinois corrections director said what the i runs really want is to be Able to meet together to plot More crimes and to use any offi Cial recognition to intimidate other inmates. Amir Salim Khaadima. Who describes himself As one of the Learned Brothers of Al run and whose real name is eau Gunc Hunter estimates that 2 to .1 percent of the membership which has been variously described As Between 500 and 1,000, has been convicted of serious crimes. The evolution of the Al runs the literal translation from arabic is the foundation from the Blackstone rangers which later became the Black p Stone nation is a Story familiar to Many chicagoan. In the late 1960s and Early 1970s.More than 200 people were killed in gang wars involving the stones. At the same time the stones obtained at least $1 million from Federal anti poverty programs. The Rev. John r. Fry who was then pastor of first presbyterian Church where the gang made its head quarters recalled those Days in a Telephone interview from Oregon where he now lives. The stones he said was a novel organisation be cause it was a confederation of gangs led by a collective leadership known As the main 21. He and other Church officials began to mediate gang disputes and set up Job training programs with Federal Money. Gang leaders were used As supervisors. The Federal trial on the religious question began in mid november and is being heard without a jury by chief District judge Harold a. Baker. Air crash victims buried with full military honors b i i associated press servicemen from across the cd ulry killed  this Ninnah in the  of .1 chartered Jet tarrying 24 sol Diers Back from duty in the Mideast Uherc buried sat urday with full military honors. He left behind ill the love he held in his  hut s .1 big legacy i Inda Mccormack of Ottawa said at the funeral of her brother. Cape. Michael Fastman. 14. In Ashland. . Other victims were buried in Tennessee. Honda. New York and Indiana. The members of the 101st airborne div were return ing to Ion Campbell by. From duty in l Egypt when their plane crashed dec. 12 at Gander Newfoundland. The division chaplain maj. Patrick Stenson. Called i Astman one of the Unsung heroes in uniform who helped to keep peace in our  in Hudson i alls n.y., 40 Miles North of Albany about 100 people attended the funeral of Phi. 2 William Brilya at immaculate heart of Mary roman c it Holic Church saturday Brilya died because he loved his country and to keep the world from exploding into a terrible chaos of War said the Rev. James Mcmanus. Pastor of the Church. Services were held in Knoxville. Tenn. For sgt. James a. Davis. 29. And in Indianapolis for pfc. Timothy a. Miller 20. Of Knobic slime. Ind. Pvt. Jerry Joe King 21, was buried in new Smyrna Beach. A. Most electronic messages now encoded Aba to push for tighter communications Security Washington not the National Security Agency has launched a five year program to encode must of the millions of electronic messages sent each year by the Federal government and defense contractors. At present a relatively Small number of such messages Are routinely encoded Pri Marily by the Central intelligence Agency and other government bureaus involved with National Security. The Asa s program would extend to civilian agencies like the agriculture department and the internal Revenue service. The Agency will also try to persuade major private businesses like Grain dealers. Banks and stockbrokers to Purchase coding equipment to make it difficult for outsiders to understand their communications. Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Dec. 30. 1945 men still prefer sweater girls by Day and sirens in Long Black evening gowns by night according to a poll of More than 1.000 College men. The poll also found that most men approve of women wearing Slacks for sports and Are in unanimous support of High heels 30 years ago today. Dec. 30. 1955 Rocky Marciano was named fighter of the year by ring Magazine. 20 years ago today., dec. 30, 1965 the 3rd brigade of the 25th inf div was flown from Hawaii to South Vietnam to help counter St Ppd up communist infiltration. 10 years ago today. Dec. 30, 1975 Britain entered a new Era of women s rights As Laws came into Force Banning sex discrimination in jobs education and housing and establishing equal pay for equal work. The principal impetus behind the pro Gram is the belief of government Security officials that the soviet Union has an Active electronic surveillance program directed against the United states. This Effort could Cost billions of dollars but is Worth every Penny of it Walter g. Delcy the Agency s Deputy director for communications Security said in an inter View. Although the Agency s responsibilities have been mostly limited to National Security matters. President Reagan last year or dered it to assume the Lead role in protect ing the messages of the civilian agencies of government As Well. From soviet facilities in Washington Glen Cove n.y., san Francisco and Lourdes Cuba and similar listening posts operating from a new class of ships soviet specialists Are scooping up Large amounts of useful information by systematically eaves dropping on the nation s Telephone and data networks the Asa reports. The surveillance threat is heightened because most of these messages arc now transmitted at some Point by satellites or microwave Lowers. The interception of messages in the air is far easier to accomplish and far harder to detect than the interception of messages sent by under ground Cable. Concern about tampering by narcotics dealers Industrial spies and casual com Puter hackers also has contributed to the belief of Maly experts that communications Security measures Musl be improved. Just recently for example government investigators broke up a narcotics ring that was operating highly sophisticated equipment capable of allowing the leaders of the ring to eavesdrop on the men for Cement agents who were trying to arrest them. One indication of the growing corporate concern about electronic eavesdropping. Delcy said is that in the last few years the International business machines corp. Has designed and installed equipment and procedures to encode its sensitive information. There have been reports in communications Trade Maga incs that such techniques Are already widely used in the Oil Industry Al though the companies will not comment on the practice. Another indication of the possible threat is the astounding growth in the number and Power of computers and the information thes Eon lain. In 1983. For example according to Esti mates of the general services administration the Federal government had a total of 22,000 computers. This year the Gas believes government agencies Are operating Well Over 100.000. Another rough measure of the growth of All kinds of electronic messages is the capacity of modems the Modulator Demodulator devices used to connect computers to communications networks like the Tele phone system. The Asa. For example ezied estimates that All the modems purchased in 1972 could together transmit about 600.000 characters per second. In 1984, according to Agency calculations sufficient modems were purchased in the United states 10 transmit 220 million characters a second. 8 Hurt in violence during rap music concert new York a melees at a rap music concert spilled into the streets As hundreds of Young people jostled and robbed passers by. Bight people were injured two critically inside and on the Side walk. I can t blame the rap music police inspector Robert Burke said at a news con Ference saturday. When you consider that there were 22,000 people inside there. There was a minimal number of Inci  police said they anticipated violence and stationed about 140 officers outside  Ison Square Garden during Friday night s Krush Groove Christmas party. An additional 160 officers were called when the violence was reported. Burke said. Some Young people May have crowded boisterously onto the streets because a Power failure had interrupted subway serv ice at the Arena he said. One Man was shot and five others stabbed inside Madison Square Garden. Two men were stabbed outside officials said. Fourteen people were charged with Rob Bery assault disorderly conduct or rioting after Rowdy groups of youngsters began knocking into passers by. Burke said. There was a group of 200 of them walk ing Down Broadway said a police officer. Anyone who got in their Way lost whatever they  Kruson Groove is a Warner Bros movie that follows the Rise of a group of Black new York City teens from washing cars to signing record contracts. Rap music s rhyming lyrics Are set to a driving beat and synthesized background sounds. Bobby Goldwater. A spokesman for mad Ison Square Garden said saturday that most of those at the concert were Well be have and that the violence was isolated and unrelated. This was not a  he said. But he said Garden officials would Dis cuss whether to continue booking rap con certs. The shooting victim an 8- ear old Man. Was in critical condition saturday after sur i Ery at St. Vincent s Hospital for wounds in the Back and left Side said Hospital spokes Man Dan Sorrenti. A 2 a year old Man who was stabbed once in the Chest was in critical condition after emergency surgery Sorrenti said. Five other stabbing victims were treated at St. Vincent s and released and a sixth refused medical assistance. Sorrenti said. Meanwhile the Rev. Al Sharpton. Whose National youth movement received $2.500 from the concert proceeds said rap Star Kurtis blow expressed concern saturday thai the music genre was being lied to Vio Lence