European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 19, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes tuesday september 19.1989 fuss Over perfect sat score baffles teen Arlington Texas a Don Cruse does t quite understand what All the excitement is about All he did was score a perfect 1,600 on the Scholastic aptitude test. There really is no secret said Cruse a Junior at Martin High school. The test includes material that s Rov Rcd in class. And 1 have to study just like other students. I m just not used to All this  but lest administrators and Arlington school officials said the 1 6-year-old is too modest. Cruse was one of Only 14 students in the nation who achieved a perfect score on the sat during the 1988-89 school year. The National average score was 903. And while most students wait until their senior year to take the College Entrance exam. Cruse did it As a Sophomore. Cruse s class schedule this semester includes latin ii pc calculus physics English history and biology. All but latin ii arc advanced classes. Me told the Dallas morning news he was thinking about going to Harvard to become a pre Law major and he s Happy he does t have to take the sat again. "1 can concentrate on some other things now he said. The sat is a 2 a hour multiple Choice lest thai measures verbal and mathematical reasoning. Scores arc reported on a scale of 200 to 800 for each portion of the test. About 1.8 million High school students took it during the last school year. Of. 12 computer virus not expected to affect Many new York a news reports of a harmful computer virus that will strike after oct. 12 have spread fear among Many users of personal computers even though experts say Only a few people Are Likely to be affected. Computer Security firms and Compa Nies that Supply anti viral software say they have been deluged by Calls since word spread of the Dat crime virus. Some experts said the virus while unusually harmful was so rare that it was Nul a cause for panic. But that was no Comfort to computer owners fearful they would be among the victims. The alarms that arc going off also Lully staggered  said Winn Schwar Tau. President of american computer Security industries inc. In Nashville Tenn. He said several government agencies and Fortune 500 companies had contacted him about the virus. Frankly the virus in t All that important a virus yet this phone is ringing off the Hook Ross Greunberg. A new yorker who makes a virus protector called flu shot plus said late last week. Arc Enburg said he has received maybe a half dozen reports of the virus since i surfaced earlier this year. The computer virus Industry association of Santa Clara calif., has received seven reports chairman John Mcafee said monday. In contrast there have been thousands of reports of other viruses. Far More people will be hit oct. 13 by the less harmful but More widespread Jerusalem virus also known As the Plo or Friday the 13th virus. I m More worried about spilling a cup of Coffee on my keyboard than 1 am about the Dat crime virus Grcen Bergseid. Computer viruses created by Anonymous programmers arc pieces of soft Ware that make copies of themselves and spread from one machine to another through infected floppy disks office net heading for a Good time a ski Boarder plows through the showing off his Cha stand while scoot water a san Diego s Pacific Beach log along the Shoreline. Works or phone links such As computer bulletin boards. Dat crime attacks the hard disk data storage devices of ism compatible person Al computers that use Microsoft corp s is Dos operating system. It wipes put the directory Section making it impossible for the disk s contents to be read. The virus is triggered when an infected program is used anytime after the computer s internal clock passes oct. 12, the traditional Date for Columbus Day. Itis also known As the Columbus Day or icelandic virus. The virus was found dormant in computers by people who noticed that some of their programs had swollen inexplicably. Infected programs were turned Over to experts who dismantled the virus and found out How it worked and when it would be triggered. Experts say the Best thing computer users can do to protect themselves from the Dat crime or any other virus is to make backup copies every Day of every thing they want to save. Users can limit their exposure to viruses by staying away from Bootleg soft Ware while being cautious in their use of computer bulletin boards and networks. But in rare instances viruses have been found in new store bought software. Several companies make software that scans programs for known viruses but those scanners won t pick up viruses they Don t recognize. Other programs Stop a machine cold and Alert the user when a program tries to do something unauthorized such As writing on an off limits portion of the hard disk. Pc Magazine earlier ii year gave its top ratings to Grcen Borg s flu shot plus a $10 program distributed through com Puter bulletin boards and cyrtus from foundation Ware inc. Of Cleveland which costs $189. 5 Whites plead innocent in . Slaying of Black new York a five while defendants pleaded innocent monday to charges of murder in the racist killing Ofa Black youth. Four were allowed to re main free on bail prompting an angry outer from the victim s father you should have kept them in Here Moses Stewart father of Yusuf Hawkins shouted at Justice thaddcus Owens it the stale court in Brooklyn. Letting murderers walk  Owens responded by calling for order in the courtroom which was filled with supporters of Hawkins family. I do a Solo act  the judge said. Minutes before he accepted innocent pleas from James Patino 24 Keith Mon Ocllo 18 Pasquale Raucci 19 and Joseph Serrano 19. The alleged trigger Man Joseph Fama. 18, appeared in court later and also entered an innocent plea. He is being held without bail. Hawkins 16, was shot to death aug. 23 when he and three friends went to the predominantly White Bensonhurst Sec lion of Brooklyn to look at a used car that had been advertised for Sale. The four Black youths were set upon by a mob of about 30 whiles carrying Bals Golf clubs and at least one gun. Police said the Whites mistakenly believed thai Hawkins and his companions were friends of a White neighbourhood girl. The Case has raised racial tension in the City and is believed to have been a Factor in mayor Edward i. Koch s defeat in last week s democratic primary. At monday s hearing Owens refused a prosecution request to raise or revoke the$75.000 bail for Serrano and Patino based on the new indictment. Owens said he May reconsider the request after reviewing the grand jury notes. Mondillo is out on $100,000 bail and Raucci is out on $75,000 bail. Assistant District attorney Paul Burns said he was not legally Able to ask for any change in their bail because the charges against them had not changed. In a letter saturday to Owens Haw Kins father asked that bail be revoked. These defendants have now been indicted for the most heinous crimes Inthis society Stewart said. Release on bail pending trial sends a dangerous Mes Sage to other persons who arc contemplating murdering a Young person of african descent because of  game show announcer commits suicide at Home los Angeles a Jay Stewart announcer of the television game show let s make a Deal died of a self inflicted gunshot wound at his Home in Hollywood police said. He was 71. Officers were called to the Home about 4 . Sunday after neighbors and rela Tives reported hearing a gunshot Detec Tive Russell Kustor said. Stewart whose real name was Jay fix was reported dead on the scene and offi cers classified the incident a suicide. There was a last will and testament on his person and some sort of a suicide note but i can t really give that to you Kustor said. Let s make a Deal the hit game show thai had Monty Hall As its nost premiered on Abc in 1963 and later moved to Abc until 1976. He is survived by his wife Phyllis an two daughters