European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 25, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday october 25. 1987 the stars and stripes Page 5 Man held computer hostage jury rules Hartow f a. Api a Fanner chief financial officer has been convicted of holding his insurance company s computer system hostage when he froze the Hies Wilh a secret password then quil in a pay dispute. George c. Coli r jr., 38. Punched in Gaca last May at Cio Klen Eagle group inc. And resigned la took six Days to break the code. It stood for whal goes around comes  jury deliberated two hours thursday and found Coker guilty of extortion and denying computer a Cess with intent id defraud both second degree felonies carrying up to 15 years in prison. Circuit judge �. Randolph by Nelcy set sentencing for nov. During a three Day rial Colter testified he created a secret password for a computer Billing system which he developed and considered his. He said company officials failed to respond to his request for a ,000-a-Ycar raise. In a letter of resignation he said he would with hold the password if certain demands weren t met. Coker s attorney. Frank Rouse of Bartow said he was surprised by he verdict. He claimed the facts show there appears to be a Legal dispute Between two persons As opposed to an intent Lodo a crime a lawsuit brought by Gojdan Eagle against Coker is pending. Golden Eagle is seeking among other things return of s3.500 in computer equipment that Coker contends was Given him Tor working overtime. Coker resigned As Golden Eagle s chief financial officer May 6 and was arrested May 12, a Day after the company discovered the computer Access code a search that had delayed a 1400,000 monthly Billing. Alleged plot to sell stolen computer plans foiled san Jose Calif. A Federal agents say they be smashed a plot involving the soviet Union s top space official to sell Moscow stolen . Supercomputer technology that would have enabled the soviets to destroy incoming missiles. A Frenchman a California software designer and a third Man were arrested thursday after agents recovered plans for a supercomputer developed by Sappy computer corp. Of Sunnyvale and Capa ble of i billion computations a second officials said. The plans were id have been sold for $4 million officials Ltd. The soviets wanted to use it in a Star wars role said an expert for the defense intelligence Agency in washing Ion who spoke on condition of Onon Nii by. La was very significant for them. The plot involved meetings Between soviet space Agency chief Roald Sag Bey and a fourth Man Charles Mcvey a former fugitive being held in a Canad an jail said Quint vol Lanucha. Pacific regional commissioner of the . Cus Toms service. Sag Cycz is soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev s chief adviser on the . Star wars program Villanueva said. The technology would have Given the soviet Union the capability to develop a supercomputer which in the event of War could anticipate american missile strikes allowing the soviets to neutralize  Vit Lanucha said. Mcvey 37, who has not been charged in the Case was arrested in Canada cur a photo the matrix i supercomputer is reportedly capable of i billion compilations a second. Her this year on a 1983 indictment charging him with Export violations. He is being held in Vancouver. Authorities arrested Ivan Pierre Bairn in a 29-year-old Frenchman and former Sappy Engineer his 30-year-old brother St Van and Kevin e. Anderson a 36 year old software designer. Anderson did not work for Sappy officials said. The three were arrested in Fremont a City about 10 Miles North of san Jose where Ivan Pierre palinic and Anderson  arrests Are expected said Rollin b. Klink  in san Francisco. Or. Yelena Lozhnikova administrative aide to said Cycz at the soviet space research Institute told the associated press in Moscow i Don t know anything about  asked if anyone at the Institute could comment on whether the allegations were True she said i Don t think  she said said Lyev was away and would return late this week. . Magistrate Patricia Trumbull on thursday ordered Anderson held with out bail on a charge of conspiracy to Vio late Export Laws. If convicted he could be sentenced to up to 10 years in prison and fined up to $250,000. The bal mics were each held on one count Ocon spicy and one count of inter slate transport of stolen property. Bail was set at $100,000 each Trumbull set a preliminary hearing for them nov. 5. Mcvey had previously been on Cus Toms i is of the 10 most wanted smug. A Lars under the service s operation exo dus which was aimed at protecting National Security by intercepting illegal exports of High technology. Sappy spokesman Sandy Towle said Batinic illegally copied the computer s operating system which the company Sells for 1896,000 to j1.9 million he stole the soul of the machine Towle said. With he information you could reconstruct the  Nalinie also stole tapes diskettes and operating manuals which were found oct. 5 in a storage locker Anderson rented in Fremont authorities said. Bad Coll by controllers May have led to disaster Indianapolis a air traffic controllers probably made a bad Call in their directions to the Pilot of an air Force Jet that crashed into a hotel killing nine of its employees an aviation safety official says. The Pilot maj Bruce l. Teagardin of Las vegas. Ncv., ejected safely just be fore the a-7d Corsair ii Jet. Which had Tost Power crashed into the lobby of the ramada inn Airport on tuesday. John b. Gali Paul president of aviation safety Institute in Worthington Ohio said Tower personnel at Indianapolis International Airport May have disregarded alternatives that could have pre vented the disaster. The aviation safety Institute is a recognized authority on air safety that conducts Independent crash investigations and maintains a data Bank of All Ai r incidents. Galipault said Hal after controllers realized Teagardin was too High on his initial approach they should Faye told him to spiral right immediately instead of going the length of the runway the Indianapolis news reported Friday. Tea Garden might then have been Able to steer his plane around for another try at the same runway Galipault said. I think it was probably a bad Call Galipault told the newspaper. He was continuing to lose Aln tude and they should have spun him right  however Federal aviation adminis Talion officials said an initial review indicates air controllers acted properly. Sands of time now these Guys who arc saying the con troller should have done such and such you know that s really nothing More than monday morning quarterbacking or Sec Ond guessing after the fact said Faa chief spokesman John Loyd in. Faa officials have not released any information on the exchanges Between the Pilot and the controllers. Trustee s tip spared College some of Stock crash trauma Kalamazoo Mich. President Carter and Panama s Gen. Omar Torrijos in september