European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 13, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and Striper Friday june 13,1988 3 employees to be fired for misusing Federal data Washington up three Commerce depart Tot tests in the course of an Csc naive investigation hat ment employees will be fired for using sensitive economic data for personal gain and the department is considering legislation o make unauthorized disclosure of such data n crime. Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige said thursday. The firings came Ai the conclusion of a nine month investigation by inc department s inspector general he Fri and the securities and Exchange commission into a leak in september 1985 of the Gross National product Tor the second Quarter or 1985. The three unidentified individuals who will lose their other in Oilive economic data Baldrige said. They were not identified because the Federal employee code specifies that they must be Given 30 Days to respond to charging letters that will be delivered to them thurs Day he said. He said the Bureau employees bad been Given lie Detec Tor extensive tha determined that two had used data for personal economic gain and a third had passed data la a Thiril person far that person s gain. But the investigation did not determine How the Gnu data reached the Chicago futures trading and new York Slock Exchange where news of a smaller than anticipated 2.8 percent annual rate of Gnu growth for Tuii Quarter became known some 18 hours before the formal release. There was a leak but the inspector general cannot identify a leaker Baldrige Laid. There was no smoking gun but there were some hammers cocked he Aid in reference to the three. The investigation turned up several areas in which Bureau Security procedures on be improved Baldrige said noting the department has already moved to restrict Access to such data reduce the lag Between the Lime when the numbers Are reached and when they arc released and Monitor Access to computer files. Oregon rules out random roadblocks Salem Ore. Up slate police called off the use of random roadblocks to catch Drunken driven complying with a mate appeals court ruling that struck Down the sobriety checkpoint As unconstitutional. The Oregon court of appeals ruled wednesday the Roadblock tactic violates the slate s constitutional Protection against unreasonable search and seizure and Servo no other purpose than As a method to search for Law violators the Oregon Constitution prohibits such indiscriminate police invasion of personal liberties the opinion read. The ruling came in he cose of Lynda Nelson of Marco a Ore., who was stopped and detained at a police Roadblock in Lane county on dec. It 1982. She was not found to be intoxicated and was not arrested bet was required to Lake Field sobriety tests. Within an hour of wednesday s ruling slate police officials notified District and regional offices to halt use of roadblocks which have been deployed primarily during holidays and after such events the super bowl. It. Cat. . Watson of the stale police said the initial Impact of the ruling will be hard to assess at the present Lime. It will definitely have an Impact on our ability to detect drinking fiery free fall stuntman to a Bride Uura fiery of Sytje Etta m Bug from i life floor apart nil music to Daha. Cubr de a performed the Hunt a Safar but of we Morfe Uno Sare Hoimlo safety can t be compromised ski scientists told Idaho Falls Idaho Dpi the . Space Hull be and soviet nuclear disasters proved that band Aid approaches to Iafe v Are unacceptable in High technology programs Star wars scientists meeting thursday were told. The lessons emerging for us Are Sim ple Energy department nuclear expert James Vaughan told a gathering of about 230 scientists and officials working on the Reagan a s strategic defense initiative program. Don t assume everything is Safe and sound because of a Good operational record and never put off safety factors became of budget constraint said Vati Ghan the Energy department s principal Deputy assist ant Secretary for nuclear Energy. Vaughan and the nation s leading offi Cial and scientists working on the proposed space shield Are conducting secret conferences this week at the Energy department s Idaho National engineering Laboratory a major nuclear research Center. Although the scientific conferences Are classified and closed to the Public for National Security reasons program chief it. Gen. Jama Abrahams held s news am Terence wednesday and Nobel laureate Edward Teller a leading advocate of ski arranged individual interviews with report ers thursday. Reporters also were allowed to listen la Vaughan s banquet speech wednesday night. The challenger explosion canted us to re Eva Uale our analysis As o How realistic Are the scenarios we proposed through test ing and How much testing is enough Vaughan said. Don t be complacent and use band Aid fixtures and then say this can t happen again."1 Vaughan said us. Experts Don t know whether human error or a technical prob Lem caused the chernobyl nuclear reactor Accident in the soviet Union but added a believe the safety features took a Back seat to Cost Abrahamson chief of the Pentagon s strategic defense office said pro Grett on the strategic defense initiative has been Only temporarily hobbled by the challenger disaster. At least two experiments have been delayed because the shuttle Fleet was grounded after the Jan. 28 Accident he said. The experiments on hold involve heal seeking wave band and a pointing and tracking exercise for lasers he said. There in t an immediate threat to the ski program Abrahamson said it in t a crippling effect for right one foul Ball and inmate is out Montville Conn. Up an inmate who chased a foul Ball during t softball game at a correction Center and kept on running was being sought by state police. Joseph Lyman 29, of Vernon was playing first base during a game tuesday night in the unfenced recreation Yard it the Montville correctional Center when a foul Ball went into the Woodi Polios said. Lyman was Given permission 10 retrieve he Ball from the Woods but be never returned old Warden Wil Liam May turd who described Lyman t flight As a Spur of the Roa ment Maynard said wednesday once Lyman Rait into the Woods he mint have thought hey i m outta the Warden said Lyman who was serving an i 8-month to two year sen tence Tor burglary and larceny was not considered dangerous. Many herpes victims found symptom Ess Boston a As Many As half of ail adult americans May have genital herpes but most won t suffer symptoms according to new research thai shows the disease can be transmitted even by people who Don t have apparent symptoms. Until recently Many experts assumed that infected people would suffer painful genital Blisten that might recur throughout their lives. The new work however shows most people who Are infected never know it even though they Are capable of infect ing their sexual partners with the disease. It appears that genital herpes As an infection May not be As severe As we once thought said or. Willard cites. There is an entire population of individuals who have very mild disease if any who Are Ca Pable of transmitting Gates chief researcher on sexually transmitted diseases at the us. Centers for Dis ease control says to vast majority of those who gel herpes Are infected by people who had no symptoms or at least none they recognized a study published in thursday s new England journal of Medicine confirms lie Long held suspicion that Tho disease can be transmitted by people who show no herpes symptoms or. Stephen e. Straus and colleagues from the National Institute of allergy and infectious diseases traced one Clear Case in which a Man with no signs of the disease gave it to a sex partner. Other new studies indicate perhaps two thirds to three Quarter of people with Geni Tal herpes infections Don t know it or. Andre Nahmias of Emory University Esti mates Between 20 percent and so percent of All adult americans have the infection. Genital herpes is caused by a germ called herpes simplex virus Type 2, a related microbe herpes simplex virus Type 1, causes cold sores. Some victims of genital herpes suffer painful recurring blisters on their sex or Gans. For these people a drug called acyclovir can significantly reduce the annoying outbreaks. However Gates estimates Only about i in 20 people infected with herpes has the disease bad enough to require tits drug. Herpes can cause severe illness including brain damage if it s passed from Mother to child during birth. Gates said this is extremely rare considering How Many women carry the virus. Typically physicians ask their Palie Ati to avoid Sci Al Intercourse when they an his ing Active eruptions of herpes blisters be cause that s when the disease appears to be contagious. Straus said that despite his new Rete Arche won t change Bis advice because the disease is probably less contagious when people skin is Clear of herpes Blister the alternative would be lifetime Celi Bacy which is unreasonable be said. A comfortable balance in terms of responsibility is to abstain when you have he said the widespread symptom free nature of herpes has a reassuring Side for people who come Down with Active infections. Even though their partner May get the infection they re not Likely to Ever have problems with it he said. At a time when we re saying that you can transmit lie Dis ease we re also learning that you can acquire it and one is not doomed to a horrible late with severe painful
