European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 13, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday february 13, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 7 in the course of computer events he forgot Washington a an unknown code word thai has something to do with the declaration of Independence has officials of the nation s capital locked out of the computer thai tracks master financial accounts. The password was changed by Cash management an " was s " can 1 " Mcm bar to u is Frost had said monday he intentionally made the code too complicated to remember so that his superiors in the City s office of financial management which he said is Rife with incompetence and not have Access to the system the inaccessible accounts Aren t crucial to daily operations but arc needed to Clear out errors in the City s computer said he changed the code after he found out someone had entered the system and made a copy of Aletter he d written to mayor Marion Barry denouncing the administration As corrupt and accusing finance officials of improprieties in the awarding of financial serv ices contracts. City officials issued Frosi a letter of reprimand locked him out of his office and packed his Persona effects in boxes after he refused to give Fred Williams City assistant treasurer and his Boss the new password. Frost said he has no intention of jogging his brain to come up with the password although he also said a thorough Reading of the declaration of Independence Likely would remind him. Alphonse Mill a Deputy mayor for finance said the District of Columbia planned to Call the computer manufacturer to get a super code to override the Mastercole so officials will have Access to the computer. In the meantime Frost s Job Security is in question. Frost and Mill agreed. Mardi gras called one of quietest we be Ever seen Appl to carnival goers wave at i float in the Zulu Parade one of three parades that end the carnival season in new Orleans. New Orleans a icy winds kept Many nor Mally risque Mardi gras costumes Bulky and sedate but the uproarious pc Len ten Celebration shifted into High gear on fat tuesday As parades turned much of the City into a free Wheeling Street party. Police spokesman Juan Quintan called it one of the quietest Mardi gras we be Ever seen in Spile of a shoot ing in which a Man was wounded and a traffic Accident that injured 20 pedestrians. Hundreds of thousands of revellers jammed shoulder to shoulder on Bourbon Street and along the routes of the five parades which rolled through the City. Big crowds also turned out to watch 10 parades m the suburbs. A Mon you stuck up folks let s party a Young Man shouted at the bundled up families who lined St. Charles Avenue. He staggered backward ignoring a Sharp beep from behind him and backed into the front wheel of a policeman s motor Cycle. The policeman Shook his head and drove off. The shooting happened later in the morning when one Man shot another Man with whom he had been arguing said Quin Lon. The victim was hospitalized in stable condition and the assailant was being held on unspecified charges police said. In the evening a sports car lurched onto a crowded median on the fringe of the French Quarter injuring 20 people police said. Two people were hospitalized with broken legs and other were being examined but none appeared seriously Hurt said officials at Charity Hospital. Police booked the Driver on charges of 20 counts of negligent injury a Misdemeanour. Both jazz clarinet St Pete Fountain s half fast walking club and the Zulu Parade were delayed a bit by the weather but the Rex Parade the Swan Kiest of the car Nival season and the family style parades that follow it rolled right on time. Parade goers costumes with some Stalwart exceptions like a Young Man in Bikini underwear generally were dictated by temperatures hovering a few degrees above freezing. A 20 Mph wind made it feel As if temperatures were in the Low teens. In the French Quarter a sizable number of people flaunted skimpy costumes in Defiance of Goose bumps and Blue skin. But Bright Satin and sequined capes worn Over warm pants and Bulky coals also seemed to be popular. Rape suspect grabbed from jail taken to . Presidio Texas up mexican officials claim three american vigilantes violated their country s sovereignty by Bur Sling into a Border Jai. Kidnapping a rap suspect and Spir iting him across the Border to face . in Presidio just across the Rio Grande from Ojinaga Mexico said monday governments on both sides of the order Are investigating the incident. Refugio Gonzalez is being held in the Brewis county jail in ,100 Miles from Presidio on charges of ducting a draping a Terlingua Texas woman last of Oiin Aea mayor Armando Gonzalez Bla Waid i gators said Ftp alarmed americans were paid him to his underwear and left him Blind folded and lied to a Iree in a Park near Alpine. Brewster county sheriff George Jones said deputies responding to a telephoned tip on Jan. 22, found Gonzalez who told the officers he had been abducted by the mexican officers theorized the vigilantes feared Gonzalez who was about to be transferred from the Border town to Chihuahua City,117 Miles away for trial would be freed by mexican authorities. Jones said the vigilantes May have Bee friends of the rape victim who is Active in civic social and political activities in Ter is charged Wilh aggravated rape aggravated kidnapping aggravated robbery and burglary of a habitation Al felonies said Phil Pollan of fort Stockton District attorney for the 83rd judicial Dis said Gonzalez had been jailed in Mexico on charges stemming from the at tack in Terlingua. Mexican authorities had said they would try him in that country. Computer alarm averted air disaster Faa says Atlanta up an air traffic control error put two airliners carry ing a total of 210 people on. A collision course at 31,000 feet until a computer sounded an alarm a Federal aviation administration official said tuesday. A disaster Over Georgia s Northern mountains was averted monday night when a controller alerted by the alarm ordered one of the Boeing 727s to descend to 29,000 feet according to Faa spokesman Jack Barker. The near collision involved Delta air lines flight 602 from fort Lauderdale fla., to Chicago with 156 people and Eastern air lines flight 687 from Phil Adelphia to Atlanta with 54 people. The Eastern Airliner and two other planes were in a holding pattern await ing permission to land at Hartsfield International Airport in Atlanta barkers id and the Delta Jet was flying on a northwesterly route after Takeoff. Both the Eastern and Delta planes were at 31,000 feet he said. There was an error committed in the air traffic control operation barkers id. The conflict Alert did go off and a controller ordered the Delta flight to descend to 29,000 feet. The Delta Pilot reported a near midair he said officials were Uncertain whether air traffic controllers realize the danger before the alarm went off but that evasive action was not ordered until after the alarm sounded. William Berry a spokesman for Delta Saiu the Delia Pilot saw the East Ern plane As he descended. Barker said the two airliners were 1,000 feet apart horizontally and 150 to 200 feel apart vertically at their closest Point. He basically was doing what the controller told him to do which was to gel Down to 29,000 feet Berry said. He saw the Eastern plane in its continuing Bank after he took the
