European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 13, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday november 13. 198b the stars and stripes Page 3 officials ignore latest decline in value of Dollar Washington not the Reagan administration including people who arc expected to join a Bush administration is showing no signs of worry by word or deed about he Dollar s lairs decline. The administration is not pushing the Dollar Down nor is it wishing the Dollar will tall further an administration official who asked for anonymity said Friday in response to speculation in the Finan Cial markets hat the Reagan administration or president elect George Bush s transition team might merely be tolerating a decline the official said the Dollar has gone Down Over the last few Days. Is hat toleration or not tolerate is a funny word. The policy is neither one of benign neglect nor one of pushing in  the official who is closely familiar with currency policy also implied that the Exchange rate of the Dollar was still within the secret limits that the United Stales established in agreement with its leading trading partners including Japan and West Germany. In inc game of Exchange rates you have to tolerate a Range of ups and Downs the official said. The official said the Reagan administration fully endorsed remarks by the Treasury s undersecretary for Domestic finance George a Gould on British television. "1 must emphasize that we As a mat Ter of policy have no interest in seeing the Dollar lower could said. And officials close to the Bush Camp called attention to the administration s Btung reaction thursday to remarks made the Day before by Martin s. Feldstin. Feldstin who was once president Reagan s chief economic adviser and was a top adviser to the Bush Campaign said in i speech in Washington thai the Dollar would have to decline around 20 percent Over three years. Natural Market forces will bring the Dollar Down he said. To reporters later folds twin said he had been speaking for himself. An administration official who is a close associate of inc vice president said or Feldstin made it. Clear that he was speaking for himself and that s the case.". By their actions senior officials arc showing Little sign of concern. The Treasury Secretary Nicholas f. Brady went Home to new Jersey. And the former Treasury Secre tary James a. Baker my whom Bush has chosen to be his Secretary of slate was said to be on a ranch without a phone. Appearances of Cairn and statements of unconcern however Are characteristic of the ways governments manage currencies. Because of the secrecy in which they cloak changes in policy the Money markets often do not learn of a change until they see in for example when Central Banks inter Vene heavily to push a currency up or Down or when news conferences arc suddenly called to announce a change. Conceivably a plan to modify the Dollar policy could be devised Early next week in Paris the Treasury department s poin Man on the Dollar David c. Mulford the assistant Secretary for International affairs boarded a night saturday evening for Paris where he will attend meetings for the Dep Uty finance ministers of 10 Western Indus trial nations on monday. Sources familiar with the trip said that the meeting was a regularly scheduled one that was set up months ago. It would Deal with a variety of issues on which the major countries collaborate while Mak ing economic policy which includes cur Rency matters the sources said. Head s up worker Bill Tucker supervising a delicate Canadian operation gives a Crane operator directions. The Edmonton billboard Section part of an and for a car Dealership was put Back together again after it lost its top portion. Software virus figure a hero among hackers7 by the Las Angeles tin sh1ngton amour times Washingto around the offices of Harvard University s Aiken computer Laboratory a droll form of hero worship has begun to appear in the shape of Small handmade posters depict. Ing Robert Tappan moms As the Cere bral analog of a Rock Star. Under a spare Thurber Szuc drawing of the 23-year-old Cornell University graduate student who is under Federal investigation for launching the software virus  paralysed computers from coast to coast and alarmed a nation increasingly dependent on the mysterious machines the poster reads rom lives the fall tour he s a hero among hackers says Stevvn Satzberg. A computer sciences Stu Dent. -. The competing View which tends to be shared by older students of computer science and those who manage the Multi million Dollar by lems now interconnected across the nation like neurons in the brain is very different. "11 was stupid and thoughtless says Dean b. Krafft the director of computer sciences at Cornell University where Morris had spent Only two months As a first year graduate student on inc night 10 Days ago when computers from Cam Bridge to Berkeley began suffering from the virus infection. Whatever was going on in Morris mind he has at least succeeded in stimulating what Many experts consider to be a Long overdue discussion of computer ethics. Is it wrong to penetrate someone else s computer if you a no harm and seek no profit should computer soft Ware be copyrighted the technology is moving so rapidly Here that it s somehow gotten ahead of the discussion and careful weighing of principles As reflected in the slow evolution of the Law in this area says John Shauck Harvard s vice president for Community affairs. This Case will certainly draw attention to the  the american computer Community has expanded far beyond the world of dedicated amateurs among them those who turned pro such As Steven jobs and Stephen Wozniak who created the Apple computer in a California garage.-. But the Community retains a hard Core of traditional hackers with their own concept of intellectual Challenge and heir own guiding ethos one ital seems to meld modern semiconductor technology with the Frontier spirit of the old West.  they do not see software As prop  says Karen a. Forcel an associate professor at Virginia s James Madison University who lectures on computer Security and is helping to draft a computer code of ethics. Only last week a techno prankster inserted obscene Pic Tures into the University s computer sys tem that did no damage but look hours of Down Lime to purge. They would never think of breaking into a building and Spray painting their initials on a Wall Forcht says. But these same students think breaking into a computer is something else again a seemingly harmless Pursuit that offers the thrill of the Chase of beating the sys tem.". The traditional Hacker ethos holds that information should be free. Electronic breaking and entering into someone else s computer is wrong Only if it dam Ages other people s data but not if it merely amuses puzzles or annoys. Hacking rejects the standards the real world tries to impose notes Steven Levy whose Book hackers heroes of the computer revolution chronicles the free Wheeling american computer subculture to hackers says Levy electronic breaking and entering form he rough equivalent of scaling the outside of new York s world Trade building or Landing a Small plane in red Square. Risky per haps but of so Sweet former czech Leader Dubcek Bologna Italy api Alexander Dubcek former czechoslovak communist party Leader whose Prague Spring reforms were crushed by the 1968 soviet led invasion has arrived in Bologna on his first trip outside his native land in 18 years. Dubcek arrived late Friday night after a Daylong rip by car from Bratislava according to officials at. The hotel in downtown Bologna where he is staying. Reporters saw Dubcek having break fast at the hotel saturday morning with officials  University of Bologna where he was to receive an honorary de Gree in political science. The degree cites his role in defending democratic principles and personal  Dubcek wearing a three piece Gray suit with a Blue shirt drank Lea and Orange juice As he went Over the speech he was to deliver at the University Cere Mony sunday after breakfast he went to his room to Chat with an italian communist party senator. Gerardo Chiaramonte former editor of l Unita the party s daily news paper. Last january the paper ran an extensive interview with Dubcek the first Given to a Western publication in nearly two decades., Chiaramonte told reporters Dubcek is feeling Well and he s Happy to be  Dubcek was to make his first Public appearance saturday night at a classical music concert at he University which is celebrating its 900th anniversary. Dubcek who is scheduled to meet with University students monday is also exp cried to visit other cities in Italy