European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 9, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday january 198b the stars and 5thipes Page 6 Navy adjusts pay rates for sea duty increases pegged to h me aboard ship do Chuck v1nch you Hington Burtu Washington new sea pay Rales will bowl the paychecks or Navy warrant officers and enlisted members with Exten Sive Tine at sea but lower enlisted sailors will be getting ins Money for sea duty. The new system part of the fiscal 1988 defense authorization act re wards sailors and warrant officers who have logged the most sea duty while pro Viding an incentive for them to return to sea. Navy officials said. For warrant officers who must have at Leas nine years at sea to qualify the new Rales took effect Jan. I. Simitar increases for most enlisted personnel with More than five years at sea begin May i officials said but those in Grade e-4 will have their sea pay permanently Cut by s10 to $15 per month no matter How much time they have at sea. In addition nil other enlisted prison incl with less than five seagoing years who so Back to sea after Jan. 1 will get less Nan they would have under the old system officials said. Sailors who were in seagoing billets before Jan. I will draw sea pay at the old Rale until they com plete their current hours. Rates for officers other than those in the warrant grades will not change. Examples of the increase in sea pay for sailors with five years at sea Are an extra si25 a month for Grade e-5, a extra 190 per month for Grade e-7 and an extra fio per month for Grade e-9. Trie increase for sailors ii being delayed until May 1 because Congress failed to appropriate enough Money to begin the new Rale before that Date officials said. We were Able to Start in Jan. T for warrants because there Aren t Many of them at sea so paying them the higher rates does t late Ai much out of our budget an official said. Submariners also will see a 35 percent increase in monthly incentive pay in their end of january paychecks. The Navy made two other minor changes in sea pay. Personnel on lenders and other support ships with primarily port missions will get one Day of sea pay for each Day spent at sea or docked at least 50 mile from the ship s Home port officials said. Also All Lime spent aboard such ships Al sea will now count toward the higher pay Rales even if n t Only accumulated one Day at a time. The sea pay counter for those sailors will run continuously the official said. Before sailors had to spend Al least 3d consecutive Days Al sea to but that provision is not retroactive for time spent aboard those vessels be fore Jan. I the officials said. Electronic virus1 threatens files in hebrew University computers Jerusalem a a Saboteur infected hebrew University computers with an electronic virus that threatens to destroy thousands if Hies and wipe out years of research a University employee said thurs Day. It is the most devastating thing we be Ever come across said Yisrael Radai a senior Programmer at the University s computer Center. A virus is computer jargon for a self propagating set of orders devised by a Saboteur that spreads from one computer disk to another to cause mischief or harm. Radai said that soon after the Sims was discovered last week University computer experts developed an antidote to diagnose and treat it. But there is still a danger thai Many users will not learn they Hove been affected until it is too late. The virus threatened to wipe out research data financial statements ledgers lists of students and other vital information compiled by administrators teachers and students. Radai said other institutions and individuals in is Rael have been contaminated in fact anyone using a contaminated disk in an ism or ism compatible com Puter is a potential victim he said. The virus was devised and introduced several months ago by an evidently mentally ill person who wanted to Wield Power Over others and did t care How he did it Radai said. He said the Saboteur had to be very Clever because he knew How to write directly into the disk controller and evade the computer s Ordinary the Saboteur exploited a Standard programming technique to insert the virus into the computer s memory said Radai. The computer infected Alt disk files exposed to it and they in turn contaminated healthy computers and disks. Radai said the Saboteur s target Dale to wipe out the files was Friday. May 13,1988. Unless computer users apply the antidote developed by the University they will lose disks afflicted with the virus on that Day. Meanwhile the Saboteur decided to wreak some minor havoc. His virus ordered contaminated pro Grams to Stow Down on fridays and the 13th Day of he month but the prank was the first obvious indication some thing was wrong with apparently healthy computer disks said Shai Bushinski a self employed computer expert knowledgeable about the virus. Another clue was derived from a flaw in the virus itself. Instead of infecting each program or data file once the malignant orders copied themselves Over and Over consuming increasing amounts of memory space computer experts noticed that supposedly Static programs were inexplicably growing in size and launched a search for the cause. Bushinsky said experts isolated the malignant com mands which appeared in easily decipherable Assem Bly language. Within a few hours three University computer experts devised a two phased program called immune and a virus which tells users whether their disks have been infected and applies tin antidote to those that have. Bushinsky said the computer virus was a new and dangerous development in the computer world that could penetrate military Industrial and commercial data systems. It might do la computers what aids hat done to sex said Bushinsky. The current free flow of information will Slop. Everyone will be very careful whom they come into Contact with and with whom they share their strike called off of from nurse Karen Brown Villa the picket line outside North Manchester Central Hospital thursday night it tin slut of in of Ktal strike by the National Union of Public employee. The walkout the fret Eter by nurses in Britain a culled off in leu thin 24 Boon but Union officials warned More could fallow. . Asked Panama dictator to quit paper says Washington a a High rank ing Pentagon official met secretly Wilh panamanian strongman Gen Manuel Antonio Noriega last week and urged him to step Down and allow free elections the Washington Post reported in Friday s editions. State department spokeswoman Anita Stockman confirmed late thursday that Richard l. Armitage assistant Secretary of defense for International Security affair spoke with Noriega and expressed us. Government concerns Over developments in Panama during the past six months. However she said she could not con firm that Armitage asked Noriega to Hep Down and allow free election. The Post citing slate department and congressional sources it did not name quoted one . Official As saying Armi tags held a lengthy session Wilh Noriega Early last week to urge him to with draw from politics. No information was immediately available on what Armitage reported no Riega s response was the newspaper said. It cited congressional source As saying they understood that administration officials still were assessing the meeting and had not yet been Able to determine its effect. Armitage was selected for the Mission because Noriega is a military Man and Washington wanted the most effective interlocutor possible the Post quoted the . Official As saying. Noriega Heads the panamanian Mili tary and rules the country although a civilian government is nominally in charge. There has been a tiling chorus of pro test in recent months against Noriega s autocratic Rule but Noriega has con tended that the complaints Stem from . Opponents of the Panama canal treaties which will turn the waterway Over to Panama Al the end of the Cen Tury. A Senate sponsored delegation that went to Panama to tee if Progress was being made to ensure human right and return the country to civilian Rule said in a report made Public dec. 14, Panama � still being ran by i corrupt military. The appearance of democracy in Panama is not the reality there Isno Lien that the government has any intention of investigating allegations of criminal wrongdoing by military officer and constitutional right ire still sharply limited.". Since then the panamanian legis lature Hai approved measures permitting the reopening of opposition news Media that had been closed since july an granting amnesty to panamanians accused of political crimes during recent dem protests were mounted against Noriega after allegations surfaced that he was involved in illicit activities ranging from drug trafficking to the assassination of political source cited by the Post said the idea for the Arr Notage mis lion had been raised in the fall during a meeting involving slate department officials and Seveta members of the Senate foreign relations subcommittee on Western hemisphere affairs including in chairman and ranking minority Mem Bers sen. Christopher j. Dodd d-conn.,and Richard a Lugar Rind
