European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 20, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday january 20, 1990 the stars and stripes Page 7 Bush Calls social Security tax Cut charade Washington a president Bush trying to prevent a political Stam Pede said thursday a proposed Cut unsocial Security taxes was a charade that would Force either an increase in other taxes or a reduction in retirement benefits. I am not going to do it to the older people in this country Bush said in his first Public comment on a proposal by sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan d-., to Roll Back the social Security payroll tax increase that began Jan. I. Vice president Dan Quayle took a similar stance. I think it s a political trap and once people understand it the won t tall Tor  Quayle said. On the heels of Moynihan s measure sen. Ernest f. Hollings , has pro posed a 5 percent value added lax Simi Lar to that levied by european countries a National sales Levy to replace revenues that would be lost both by the social Security tax Cut and Bush s own proposal to lower the tax on capital gains. Hollings plan would raise $53 Bil lion in 1991. Rep. Donald Pease. A Ohio. A member of the House ways and Means committee called the value added tax or vat pretty much a pie in the sky  we certainly could not get a vat without the Active support of the presi Dent Pease said. And on theoretical grounds the vat could be As regressive As the social Security  the White House has been put on the Moynihan spot by Moynihan s plan because it has won support across the political spec Trum even from traditional allies of the president such As the . Chamber of Commerce and conservative groups. Moreover it has exposed Bush to criticism that he is espousing a tax Cut for the Rich in his suggested Cut in capital gains taxes while spurning a break for Middle and Low income americans with a reduction in social Security taxes. But Bush said this is an Effort to get me to try to raise taxes on the american people by the charade of cutting them or Cut  Moynihan s proposal would save workers $7 billion in social Security taxes this a car and $55 billion in fiscal1991. The payroll tax paid by both employ ers and employees Rose to 7.65 percent Jan. 1 from 7.51 percent and it is in View on wages up to $51,300 instead of $48.000. That Means a wage earner could pay As much As $3,924 in social Security taxes this year an increase of about $319 from 1989. Moynihan argues that the payroll tax should be reduced because mounting sur pluses in the social Security Trust funds arc being used to help offset Large budget deficits instead of being put away for future retirement benefits. The surpluses arc the result of a 1983 agreement Between the Reagan administration and Congress in which taxes were raised to build up annual surpluses eventually totalling hundreds of billions of dollars to pay for baby Boomers retire ment costs in the next , interviewed by the new York times in a Telephone Call to Jerusa Lem at the end of his trip to Morocco and the Middle East said it is not fair today i want to raise taxes to offset the social Security tax  Grad student says his mistake let computer worm go haywire Syracuse . A the program that disabled thousands of computers nationwide was in tended simply to enter computers but an error caused it to go haywire the graduate student who designed it testified thursday. My purpose was to see if i could write a program that would spread As widely As possible Robert t. Morris told jurors in his Federal computer tampering trial. The worm spread on the network far faster than i  said Morris 25. Who spoke publicly for the first Lime about the november 1988 attack that Par Al Zed an estimated 6.000 computers linked to the internet network. About 150.000 computers arc grouped in the inter net system nationwide. It includes corporate academic and non classified military users. The suspended Cornell University student questioned by Federal prosecutor Mark Rasch said he de signed the worm to break into internet As a harmless exercise. Morris said he gathered passwords from various universities and without permission decoded them to ensure that the worm would spread widely. He also said he took Steps to make the worm harmless and to protect it from easy eradication. During questioning by defense attorney Thomas Guidoboni. Morris said he included mechanisms to limit the worm s growth and programmed the worm so it would not cause permanent damage to existing files in computers it attacked. Morris said it was difficult for Large computers to limit the worm s growth and to safeguard against in entering their systems. He said he thought the worm would duplicate a few limes a Day or every few hours but admitted that he had made a programming error that caused the worm to replicate wildly. Once i released it i had essentially no contacts atall. I could t control it he said. Morris said he let the worm enter the internet net work through computers at the Massachusetts Institute of technology in Cambridge. After releasing the worm from Cornell at about 8p.m. On nov. 2, 1988, he went Oul for dinner. When he returned about three hours later he said he notice that Cornell s own computer was slow to respond to commands. On finding copies of the worm in the Cornell sys tem he said he knew it was spreading and was not working right. He said he started to get scared. Morris said he considered sending out a second worm to track Down and destroy the first one but decided against that after seeing the unpredictable nature of the first worm. He also was not sure that he could get into the computer system once the worm had begun to cripple it he said. Instead he said he called Andrew Sudduth a Friend at Harvard University and asked him to Send a Mes Sage on an electronic bulletin Board read mainly by internet users. Morris said he wanted to apologize for unleashing the worm and to Tell users How to eliminate it. Sudduth testified at Morris trial wednesday that he eventually did Send a warning message. But it did t show up on the computer system until two Days late because the route he picked to keep his identity a secret already was backed up with mail Sudduth said. Lawyers said they expected to give closing statements monday. If convicted Morris of Arnold md., faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000 Fine. Practice cake Eric mushier a member of the culinary team from Johnson & Wales University in Providence , examine a cake he baked under a 30-Minulc practice deadline. His six member team is scheduled to go to London next week to compete in in International cooking Competition. Wisconsin Indian fishing rights Spur racism Madison. Wis. A a Federal report thursday concluded that racial animosities Between indians and non indians have escalated in Northern Wisconsin during the past five years of tribal spearfishing. The report said the Rise in  on Indian treaty rights and was most noticeable because of increased racist attacks on Chippewa soca Fishers. Gov. Tommy g. Thompson said he Hopes the report released by the Wisconsin advisory committee to the . Civil rights commission will Spur con Gress to address the conflicts. It s about time the Federal govern ment said you know what we should do something " Thompson said. They re the ones who set  but Thompson said despite attempts at negotiations among treaty rights factions the Issue ultimately would be decided in the . Supreme court. Wisconsin s six Chippewa Indian tribes retain the right to Spearfish Hunt Cut Timber and gather food on off reservation lands under 19th Century court affirmed treaties that ceded Northern Wisconsin to the . Government. In recent years opponents to those rights have staged Large and sometimes hostile protests at boat landings and lakes where the Chip pc a Spearfish each Spring. Protesters contend it s unfair to allow Only the Chippewa to legally Spearfish since the method is very efficient. Last year the protests escalated into Rock throwing and name calling incidents and Large police forces were called in to keep the peace. Some 200 protesters were Thompson arrested during the demonstrations. James l. Baughman. Committee chair Man of the report said Overall the information received indicated that Little has changed since the committee s last review of Indian treaty rights in 1984, except for an increase in racial  the committee members said confrontations where the indians Spearfish have the potential to become even More violent in future years. The increased hostility has been particularly provoked by spearfishing Baughman said. The seven member committee sent the report to the civil rights commis Sion alter it was unanimously endorsed. Efforts to negotiate settlements that would pay the tribes millions of dollars to curtail their treaty rights have been rejected during the past year by tribal members. The report contained no recommendations on How to Deal with the conflicts but detailed incidents of increased racism since the 1984 study. The report said racism was reflected i slogans such As save a Walleye Spear an Indian and save a Deer shoot a Indian found on hats handguns and bumper stickers sold in Northern wis Consin. Baughman said the creation of organized anti treaty rights groups in recent years also has fostered  be served As a  Baugh Man said. They be made in a More emotional More spirited Issue than it needs to  but Chuck Vallire vice chairman of protect american s rights and re sources which was formed about four years ago said his group does t promote racist attitudes despite the presence of racism in Northern  think our role is More to promote education about treaty rights issues he said