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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 12, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes saturday november 12,1959 rambo Hunters roam Texas Woods i would t go out there official says new Waverly Texas a swelling troops of Deer Hunters in cast Texas including rambo types in military dress armed with semiautomatic weapons arc out Manning and outrunning . Forest service agents on Public lands officials say. It s scary As hell Billy Ball special agent for the Forest service said thursday. These Guys Are carrying cannons and we re regulated by policy with six shoot ing pop  last year Texas moved past Pennsylvania to be come the slate issuing the most Hunting licenses. Butas the ranks of Hunters have grown and become unruly a situation aggravated by alcohol and drug use some private landowners have been restricting Access to their property officials said. All of which has put increased pressure on East Texas 1 four National forests Sabine Davy Crockett Angelina and Sam Houston during the firearms Deer season that began last weekend. "1 would t go out there myself nor take my family said Carl Gidlund a . Forest service Public information officer. It s turning into an Arsenal out  what s changed on the Forest is that we re seeing a lot of military weapons or semiautomatic weapons instead of rings. Ball said. We seeing people moving away from the tradition Al weapons to a military look dress weapons. We Call it the rambo syndrome they get their faces painted up and they re  in the Deer season s first weekend Law enforcement officers received death threats from Hunters a 14-year old boy was wounded by a Hunter firing at a wounded Deer and another Hunter was found unconscious after falling 30 feet from an illegal Deer Blind a platform devised to hide Hunters from Deer. Officers also were investigating illegal blockades set up by some burners to keep others off Public land and incidents in which nails were spread Over some Federal Forest roads. We presume it s people trying to keep other people out of their exclusive Hunting areas Gidlund said one witness said he picked up 20 pounds of  on wednesday night three Hunters told authorities that they were ordered at gunpoint from National for est land by other Hunters it s locals who say my daddy and my Granddaddy hunted Here and you City slickers Aren t Hunting Here " Ball said. And we have to referee these thing i m not classifying All Hunters like this. But you got a crowd of people gelling together with adrenaline pumping and some alcohol and drug use. And you re going to have  Ball is one of seven Federal Law enforcement officers patrolling 700,000 acres in i5 counties. The agents Are probe of computer virus Case nearly finished Fri chief says Washington apr Fri agents should Complete the initial phase of a criminal probe into the computer virus incident in the next few weeks and the Bureau is examining a wide Range of possible criminal violations Fri director William sessions said thursday a 23-year-old Cornell University graduate student has told friends he created the virus a tiny program that spreads throughout computer networks and disrupts them. However sessions told reporters there has to be a very careful and deliberate took at it before i would Ever go out and suggest that a person had actually committed a  you have to move carefully and i think we redone it properly in this Case he added. Sessions said investigators Are trying to determine whether statutes concerning wire fraud malicious mis chief or unlawful Access to stored communications May have been broken. " earlier this week the Fri said it was focusing on a Federal Law that prohibits fraud or related activity i connection with computers the computer fraud and abuse act of 1986,. Cornell student Robert t. Morrisjr. Has told Friend that he created the computer virus that disabled thou Sands of computers last week but did t intend for it to invade computer in stems around the country to often look at intent As being knowing and intentional doing of an act which the Law forbids and knowing that the Law forbids it to be done session said. But we also have other statutes which Deal Sim ply i h knowingly doing  the malicious mischief statute to which sessions referred carries a maximum 10-year prison term for anyone who wilfully interferes with the use of any communications line controlled by the . Govern ment. ,. " a the unlawful Access Law makes it a crime to prevent authorized Access to electronic communications while they arc in electronic storage. It carries a maximum six month jail term if malicious destruction or damage is not involved. The virus incapacitated computer sys tems leaving their owners unable to gain Access to data stored in  another subject at a news conference sessions said the Fri is examining allegations by some hispanic Fri agents that they have been targets of retaliation within Trie Bureau for testifying in a class action suit alleging harassment of hispanic agents. He said we arc looking at the allegations which arc now part of the suit. Pending in . District court in Elpaso Texas. Affidavits tiled in the Case reflect five different circumstances that allege retaliation against the mis panics. One of the Plain tilts in the Case has said there May have been at least 20 such incidents a Federal judge ruled sept. 28  Bureau had systematically discriminated against its his panic agents by denying them promotions and de tailing them to the least re warding assignments. Still to be determined by the judge following a hearing is what Relief is due the hispanic agents. Equipped with six shot .357-Calibcr magnum pistols. Officials said the Sam Houston National Forest about so Miles North of Houston has the most Hunting pressure followed by the Davy Crockett about 50 Miles farther North. Rich Glodowski District Law officer for the Sam Houston Forest said he wears a bulletproof Vest on patrol. But with the firepower out there there no Way in s going to Stop it he said i m not sure what the answer  in addition to Semraul Malics officials Are finding greater use of handguns. They be got two or More handguns and band leers ammunition belts with 90 rounds. You can kill All the Damn Deer in East Texas with those Ball said. Although no statistics were available on the number of Hunters in the forests All of the Forest service campgrounds for Hunters Are filled Gidlund said. Jerry Mccrae of the Texas Parks and wildlife department regional office in Rusk said some private landowners Are charging Hunters $400 per gun Lount and Many won t tolerate " rambo types on their land. The National Forest is a natural attraction for those individuals Mccrae said. It is open and the fact it i free it docs attract a  stateside record numbers visit fire ravaged Yellowstone Yellowstone National Park Wyo a mild weather and curiosity about the damage from last summer s tires helped Yellowstone National Park Sci an attendance re Cord in october officials say. Attendance in october increased by almost 50,000 people or More than 39 percent com pared to the same month last year the Park said in a statement thursday. The Park said 175,019 people visited the Parkin october compared to a total of 115,597, which had been the previous record for october. William sessions in the last 10 years an average of 100,500 peo ple visited the Park in the tenth month f Park officials attribute the significant increase in october visitation to warm weather and the Many visitors wishing to View the Park after the fires the release  s daughter named chairman of Playboy inc. Chicago Dpi the Board of Playboy enterprises inc. Elected Christie Hefner u re place her famous father Playboy s founder Hugh Hefner As chairman and chief executive officer on thursday. Hefner 36, joined her father company in 1975.As special assistant to the chairman. She has served As president of the adult entertainment company since 1982. She is credited with Playboy s turnaround to profitability Engi Neering the closure of company owned Playboy clubs and concentrating on its three Core Busi Nesses including publishing. Last for new abortion ruling Washington a a pending Missouri Case gives the supreme court an appropriate Opportunity to reconsider the High court s landmark 1973 decision that legalized abortion the Federal government argued thursday. In what appears to be the Reagan administration last Chance in the supreme court to address the 15 year old Roe is. Wade ruling solicitor general Charles Fried filed a Brief noting thai the Missour cases rec of procedural defects accordingly if the court is prepared to recon Sider Roc a Wade this Case presents an appropriate Opportunity for doing so said Fried s 12-Pagebrief. ,-.--- the solicitor general notes that the . Govern ment views on abortion were expressed in a Case in june 1986, when it urged that Roe is. Wade be Over turned on the grounds that there is no constitutional right to the procedure of abortion. The court then voted 5-4 to reaffirm the earlier Rul ing. In the Missouri Case the state passed a Law two years ago regulating abortions. The Law also contains a finding that the life of each human being begins at Conception. The Law provides thai no Public funds employees or facilities Are to be used to perform or assist in an abortion or to encourage or counsel a woman to have an abortion. The Law was struck Down in july by a Federal appeals court which said the Law was invalid under Roc is.  Johnson legislative director for the nation Al right to life committee said the Missouri Cas offers the High court a Chance to address some important issues such As limits on abortions late in pregnancy even if it decides not to use the Case to overturn Roc is. Wade we re not predicting that the court would use this Case As he occasion to overturn Roe is. Wade John son  s a possibility. Of course we would be de lighted if they  in their Appeal Missouri officials said if their slate Law docs not satisfy  decision Ihen the supreme court should reconsider thai ruling and go on to give states almost unlimited authority to ban abortions any time they have reason to do so  
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