European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 5, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday november 5, 1988 the stars and stripes Page 5 winning stretch Kelly Salsbury is intent on her form As she grabs her Ankles and swoops under an 18-Inch High limbo bar set up at the skate scene roller rink in Bangor Maine. The stretch by the 10-year-old was Good enough to beat the Competition capturing first place for her in the weekly event at the popular Bangor rink. Virus sweeps through computers in . University defense researchers systems shut Down by inc associated press a computer virus infected systems from Mit to Cal tech thursday afflicting major universities and Federal research centers including Nasa s Jet propulsion Laboratory but officials said they were unaware of any damage. The Bug infected hundreds of computers but apparently did t destroy any files or research said professor James Bruce vice president for information systems at the Massachusetts Institute of technology. The virus slowed or halted dozens of computers at the California Institute of technology by thursday morning but caused no permanent damage said Bob Logan systems manager of Cal tech s computing organization. Spokesmen at Boston University Stanford University Colorado University and the Nasa Ames research Cen Ter in Mountain View calif., also said their systems had been infected. Contact with other universities showed the virus infected computers at Purdue University the University of Wisconsin at Madison and the University of California at Berkeley according to Charley Kline senior research pro Grammer with the computing services office at the University of Illinois. This has the feel of somebody who was sitting around thinking one night Over a Beer hey i can write a virus. Let s Sec what happens said Kline. Some of the institutions were investigating the incident but a criminal probe has not been announced. Kline said that As far As he knows Only locations using Vax computers made by digital equipment of Maynard mass., or Sun computers made by Sun Micro systems inc. Of California were affected. All of the affected computers use the same operating system or master program that allows a computer to run other programs Logan said. The operating system named bad unix was written by University of California at Berkeley computer experts and is a modified version of the unix operating system produced by american Telephone & Telegraph he said. Viruses the communicable diseases of computers arc tiny programs created in computers either As a joke or vandalism. They attach themselves to other programs and spread through shared software. In the Mildest form a message flashes on a screen As malignancies they destroy data and cripple computers. This virus program tries to find All the machines it can talk to copies itself into those machines and then it starts doing the same thing again Logan said. Cal tech experts believe the virus entered their computers through arpanet a network established by the defense advanced research projects Agency. Arpanet is a nationwide computer network that. Reaches to just about every University in the United states Cal tech spokesman Bob finn said it lets researchers communicate data and text very  Logan said he believes the virus came through the arpanet connection because at least some of the times it entered Cal tech s computers wednesday night it came from computers at Nasa s Ames research Center and at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in Berkeley. All the computers arc connected by arpanet he said. At the Lawrence liver More National laboratories in Livermore calif., spokesman Jeff Garberson said a com Puter problem was discovered around 8 . Wednesday. We. Took action to contain it which Means to Stop it from spreading to other computer systems Garberson said. We were successful by about i in the morning. This is for unclassified non secured systems. It did not affect our classified National defense system at  the lab s work includes design of the nation s nuclear weapons and key work in the strategic defense initiative. We arc now powering Back up and should have ail these unclassified systems Back on line by tomorrow Garberson said. The virus also infected a network called science internet that serves Many scientists and research labs including Nasa s Jet propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena said jul spokesman Jim Wilson. Nasa s science internet office at Ames alerted jul specialists of the virus presence shortly after Midnight thursday. Within an hour jul has disconnected from the Nasa science internet and also from Milnet and arpanet two other research and development computer networks Wilson said. No damage to hardware software or data was  boy 10, held in shooting of Texas school bus Driver Sands of time. In the stars and stripes port Arthur Texas a a 10 year old boy was taken into custody thurs Day after he allegedly shot his school bus Driver in the head authorities said. The Driver Russell Jean Hampton was listed in critical condition thursday at St. Mary s Hospital. Police said witnesses saw the student run from the bus before they discovered Hampton 40, slumped Over the steering wheel. She had been shot in the base of the Skull with a Small Caliper handgun police said. The shooting occurred after Hampton Hadi dropped Oil students Al Dick Dowling elementary school and was returning to the District s bus storage barn police said. Apparently this boy had missed the bus earlier in the Day and she had seen him Riding his bicycle along the Road on her Way Back said police it. . Font not. We Don t know whether he was Riding his Bike to school or playing  the boy was taken into custody at his grandparents House near the site of the shooting. Police speculated that Hampton had told the boy to get on the bus with the intention of returning him to school and possibly reporting him for truancy. Font not said the boy also May have been afraid school officials would Dis cover the weapon. A .22-Calibcr handgun and the boy s bicycle were recovered from the bus font not said. Russell Coco assistant superintendent of port Arthur schools said District officials did not know the name of the boy. 40 years ago today. Nov. 5, 1948 the swedish Academy awarded the 1948 Nobel prize for Litera Ture to american born poet . Eliot Best known for his Post world War i Ballad the waste land published in 1922. 30 years ago today. Nov. 5, 1958 Andres Rivero Aguior was elected As successor to cuban presi Dent Fulgencio Batista. Rebel Leader Fidel Castro had warned that he would disrupt the election but his threats failed to materialize. 20 years ago today. No v. 5, 1968 a Gallup poll reported that a late surge in support for democratic presidential candidate Hubert h. Humphrey made the contest Between Humphrey and Republican candidate Richard m. Nixon too close to Call. 10 years ago today. Nov. 5, 1978 Arab leaders meeting in Baghdad sent a delegation to Cairo to offer president Anwar Sadat $50 billion to renounce the Camp David accords. Sadat refused the offer