European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 24, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes wednesday january 24,1990 news briefs 3 marines Hurt 1 missing in copter crash off Oahu Honolulu a a . Marine helicopter on a training Mission went Down in the Pacific Ocean off the Island of Oahu injuring three marines and leaving a fourth missing. The ch-46 sea Knight helicopter with four aboard crashed monday night about 24 Miles Southeast of Koko head said sgt. Terri Allen of the Marine corps air station at Kaneohe Bay. Marine and coast guard helicopters and the de Stroyer Ingersoll were searching for the missing Marine. The three injured marines were in satisfactory condition at a military Hospital Early tuesday. Allen said the cause of the Accident was t known. . Won t prosecute Bloch Abc news reports Washington a the Justice depart ment has decided not to prosecute Felix Bloch the american Diplomat suspected of spying for the soviet Union Abc news said monday  department declined to confirm the report. Bloch was the subject of a massive and highly visible Fri surveillance last year after it was Learned that he had been videotaped passing a suitcase to a soviet agent in Paris. Bloch had been the no. 2 official of the . Embassy in Vienna Austria for much of the Rea Gan administration years before taking an assign ment in Washington. Though he was placed on administrative leave in june he continued to draw his $80,000 an Nual salary. Powell Cia chief sees soviet threat continuing to lose steam Washington a the director of the Cia told Congress tuesday that Eastern Europe s tumultuous push for democracy has Cut the soviet threat to the West and that we can probably expect a continued  William Webster in an unusual Public appearance before the Senate armed services committee said that As unchallenged communist control comes to an end in the East bloc those nations links to the soviet Union have been radically changed. The result he said is a severe blow to the soviet Union s certainty that Eastern Europe will respond to its military directives. The armed services committee is beginning work on writing a defense budget for fiscal 1991 with an assessment of the soviet threat to the West. Overall the conventional threat to the United states and our Alliance partners in Europe has de creased As a result of changes in Eastern Europe and soviet Force reductions Webster told the panel. The Cia director cautioned however that the soviet Union is vigorously upgrading its strategic forces. The soviets also have made considerable gains in the anti submarine Effort but they still will be unable at least in this decade to threaten . Subs in the open Ocean Webster said. From Page 1 Marine corps a hollow air Force. I have been there and i am not going  he said to applause from the Reserve officers Many of them wearing uniforms. The term hollow army refers to the 1970s when Many . Units were far below strength and did not have enough ammunition or spare parts to fight a War or keep equipment running. Powell was clearly impressed by the changes he saw among his Warsaw pact Croutc parts. It was fascinating at the conference to meet particularly with the Eastern european chiefs of defense he said. I met with six leaders of the non soviet Warsaw pact nations. Five of them had Only been in their Job for less than a month. The one thing that was Clear from those conversations is that they arc All seeking their Way in this new Era. They arc All looking at what the nature of an army should be. At what the nature of a Navy should be or an air Force with respect to their own National interests. And increasingly Powell continued they arc structuring their forces the same Way we think about structuring ours for defensive purposes oriented solely to the defensive needs of your nation and not As pan of an aggressive  voodoo from Page 1 quoted As saying. Gen. Maxwell Thurman commander of the . Southern come based in Panama later repeated the allegation saying that 50 Kilos not pounds of cocaine belonging to Noriega had been found. A kilo equals 2.2 pounds. They found a White powdery substance wrapped in banana leaves in a Freezer and thought it was co Caine Wood said. It looks like cocaine. But Cid criminal investigation division did tests on it and it turned out to be bonding material. We found out we were wrong she said. The Washington Post reported tuesday that Accord ing to officials in the army s criminal investigation division the contents of the banana leaves were Actu ally tamales. The contents of the banana leaves apparently were used in Noriega s magic bonding rituals against opponents or persons he wanted to control officials said. In what appeared to be a plea to head off budget cuts for the Cia and other intelligence agencies. Webster said the United states must maintain its intelligence capability. He pointed to the continued soviet strategic modernization and to terrorism illegal drugs uncertainty in latin America Asia and the Middle East and weapons proliferation. Intelligence operations arc hidden in the defense department budget which faces significant cuts on Capitol Hill this year. Although the exact figures Are secret . Intelligence reportedly spends $25 billion to $30 billion a year just under 10 percent of the defense budget. In his Public statement Webster emphasized that the situation in Eastern Europe and the soviet unions in constant flux with widespread economic prob lems turmoil in regional areas and the communist party s reduced Power. Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev is committed to reforms but they have been slow in coming the Cia director said. The Chance of Gorbachev s removal a Kremlin Leader is unlikely and a major reversal of his policies would come Only if he is removed from Power Webster said. Nevertheless we can probably expect a continued diminution but not elimination of soviet threats to . Interests the Cia director said. Chaos from Page 1 they apparently thought authorities wanted to claim casualties were lower than in reality. Nothing was found in the holds Gerasimov told a news briefing. Radio Moscow in a broadcast monitored in London by the British broadcasting corp. Said troops sent to Azerbaijan came under fire four times monday an overnight including an attack on a Convoy of recently demobilized servicemen also carrying women. Baku radio also monitored by the bbl said two sol Diers and a woman bystander were killed in that attack. The extremists arc thus continuing their criminal activities Baku s military commander it.  Kubinyak was quoted by the azerbaijani radio As saying. The deaths brought the Overall loll in the unrest to 170 killed since the riots began with More than 600 wounded. Azerbaijan s Kab expressed alarm in its Appeal to residents of the Republic for Calm radio Moscow said. Azerbaijan is on the Edge of the abyss beyond which lie chaos and anarchy the Kab  Yunusova a spokesman for the Independent so Cial democratic group said Baku was paralysed tues Day by a general  shops in the major Oil refining Center were closed no morning newspapers were published and Azerbaijan s state run television was off the air said Divinch Abdulla Yeva an editor at aze inform. The re Public s official news  said fighting continued near a Lyanskiy bar Racks in Baku with 263 azerbaijani military cadets and More than 130 classmates of other soviet ethnic groups opposing soviet troops who have cordoned off the area. Kubinyak told the Krasnaya zvezda military daily there was still gunfire in the City but gave no details. Ina statement broadcast on radio Moscow the general said there Are forces Here with an interest in main Taining tension at the highest  stud end convicted in computer worm Case Syracuse . A a jury monday night convicted a suspended graduate student on Fedora computer tampering charges for unleashing a worm that crippled a nationwide network of thousands of  t. Morris 24, faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000 Fine. He is the first person brought to trial under a 1986 Federal computer fraud and abuse Law that makes it a felony to break into a Federal com Puter network and prevent authorized use of the sys  jury returned its verdict about 9 30 . After nearly six hours of deliberation.. District court judge Howard Munson did not set a sentencing Date. Morris from Arnold md., testified during his trial that he had made a programming error that caused a computer worm to go berserk and cripple the internet system. The worm he designed immobilized an estimated 6 000 computers linked to internet including ones at the National aeronautics and space administration military facilities and major universities. Morris would not comment As he hurried from the Federal courthouse. But his father also named Robert said he did not think the verdict was unfair. I have a great Deal of Faith in the american judicial system and yet i m still disappointed in the verdict he  May not have intended his worm program to paralyse a nationwide computer network in 1988, but it was no Accident that the worm attacked the network. Justice department trial lawyer Mark Rasch said in closing statements earlier in the Day. The worm did t break in by Accident or mistake. Robert Morris intended for the worm to break in he  attorney Thomas guid Obom argued that the suspended Cornell University graduate student made a programming error that caused the worm to go berserk and cripple the internet system on nov. 2, 1988. Czechoslovak want .-soviet Summit Prague Czechoslovakia a president Vaclav Havel tuesday announced he will invite president Bush and soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev to hold a future Summit in Prague. Havel made the disclosure in a speech to parliament that was carried live on state television. I personally would like to present to or. Gorba Chev various important and mutually interrelated proposals including the offer to hold his future Summit meeting with or. Bush in Prague said Havel who plans to visit the soviet Leader in Moscow in Early february. He added naturally 1 will present the same proposal shortly afterwards to or. Bush during the big state visit to the United  no precise dates for Havel s visits to Moscow and Washington have been announced so far. Gorbachev and Bush already have scheduled their next Summit for june somewhere in the United slates. No exact location has been disclosed. The two leaders last Mei on ships off the coast of Malta in december. At the White House spokesman roman Popadyk said . Officials received no official word on the invitation and he said officials Only had seen news accounts. There arc no plans for anything beyond the june Summit at this time he said