European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 20, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Stateside Page 6 a a a the stars and stripes tuesday March 20, 1990 mexicans hold and threaten americans on Spring break Brownsville. Texas apr four americans on Spring break were held against their will and threatened by a group of mexicans before a police Cruiser passed by and rescued them mexican police said monday. Three Matamoros Mexico residents were to face a judge monday on charges of deprivation of Freedom in the incident which began Early Friday. The three College students and a Friend All from the Oklahoma City area had been visiting bars in Matamoros and were heading to the Gateway International Bridge to return to Brownsville when they accepted a ride said Marland Crabtree one of the americans. Quot As soon As we got in they turned around and started to drive really  said Crabtree 25. A they drove us All Over town going at about 100 Miles an hour through City streets and running Stop  a year ago. A University of Texas student was kidnapped in Matamoros while on Spring break and was killed at a nearby ranch allegedly by members of a drug cult. Fourteen other bodies were also found at the ranch. Crabtree his brother Darren i 9, Jeff Jones 21, and a 19-year-old woman told police they were held for about three hours threatened with death and taken to a vacant warehouse. The woman who was not identified said she was sexually molested. The abductors were ordering the americans to go into the warehouse when Matamoros police officer Ruben Morales Gonzalez drove by about 3 30 . A i saw them there and i thought it was strange for them to be at that Side of town at those hours a said Gonzalez. A when i stopped one of them raced toward the car and told me they were taken against their will. Then i called for  Darren Crabtree said the americans feared for their lives when the abductors told them to go into the warehouse. A at that Point we thought they were going to kill us because last year those people got killed during Spring break a said Marland Crabtree. A they were telling us that we better go in because they had a  Gonzalez said it was unlikely that he would have spotted the americans if they had been in the car since its windows were tinted Black. The oklahoman told the Brownsville Herald they could not get out of the cards Back seat because it had cd citric powered windows and child safety door locks. The oklahoman were kept at the Matamoros jail until Friday afternoon because mexican officials feared they would leave the country without telling a court reporter what had happened. The three men arrested were Jesus Rangel Gonzalez Oscar Garcia Velazquez and Olga Lidia Castillo All of  expelling members who behave unethically Chicago apr the american medical association for the first time is purging from its membership doctors who have been convicted of felonies sold illegal drugs or in other ways behaved in unethical ways. The Ama recently revoked the membership of 31 physicians general counsel Kirk Johnson said. The Ama did not identify the doctors most of whom had already lost their licenses to practice Medicine. A the reason we started this program was As much As anything a symbolic gesture a said Johnson. A but we did want to Send a signal that the Ama was not afraid of expelling  purged doctors can Appeal the amass decision he  oks foreign Sale of sterile screw Worms Washington apr president Bush has signed legislation allowing the Secretary of agriculture to sell sterile screw Worms to any nation including Libya. A the move is intended to help prevent screw Worms from devastating cows in Africa. The screw worm a flesh eating parasite that preys on livestock was eradicated in 1982 in the United states. It still poses a threat to livestock in Mexico and Central America and the United states and Mexico jointly operate a lab in Mexico that is the worlds Only source of sterile screw Worms. Screw Worms were recently discovered in Libya the Radical North african nation that is under a . Trade embargo for sponsoring terrorism. The legislation Bush signed allows Sale of the sterile screw Worms to any foreign government or International organization.840 tornadoes in 1989 is 2nd-highest . Total Washington apr there were 840 tornadoes in the United states last year the second highest total on record the National weather service has reported. The record is 907 tornadoes recorded in 1984. There were relatively few fatalities in 1989, however. The weather service said there were 48 deaths attributed to twisters Well below the 83 fatalities in an average year. Alabama suffered the most deaths in 1989 with 21. There were nine deaths in new York five in North Carolina four in Georgia three in Florida two each in Louisiana and South Carolina and one each in Tennessee and  you can Type workplace a says Janet Baker who founded the company with her husband James in 1982 after stints in speech recognition product development at ism corp. And Exxon corp. T the system is designed for professionals who done to Type Well or who want to write reports and letters that otherwise would be dictated to a Secretary then transcribed. A the Only people who Are really Good typists Are journalists computer programmers and secretaries said Baker. A doctors lawyers and a lot of other people often just Hunt and Peck or they rely on handing notes to someone to Type  dragon dictate is also seen As a great Boon to the disabled. Whitney and others with disabilities have used the system in test marketing around the country for the past year. Laura Harris a 19-year-old Sophomore at Harvard University was born without fingers on her left hand. She taught herself to Type with her right hand but did so much typing As a freshman government major she injured her hand. She was forced to dictate her papers into a tape recorder and give it to another student to transcribe. Since january Harris has used dragon dictate. A it was so hard to dictate before because i you in t actually see what 1 was writing so i  edit t often ended up trying to write longhand and that was painful a said Harris. A dragon dictate is just amazing. It allows me to go Back to typing and editing my  system adjusts to each users voice and Vocao ulary because individual voices can vary widely. Illegal computer program invades nationwide network steals files new York apr a rogue computer program that steals electronic documents and covers its own tracks has invaded dozens of computers in a nationwide computer network a published report said. The program has infiltrated the computers of corporations non classified military installations government laboratories and several universities the new York l Imes reported in monday s editions. Los Alamos National Laboratory digital equipment corp., Harvard University Boston University and the University of Texas Are among the affected institutions unidentified investigators told the times. The computer network is internet a worldwide collection of computer systems that links corporations government projects and universities. Government computer Security teams have been unable to Trace the source of the illegal program. Their Job has been especially difficult because the program automatically erases computer files that now if you can Newton mass. Apr a new voice activated typewriter is a science fiction dream turned reality that promises to boost productivity and open a world of Opportunity for the handicapped. The dragon dictate voice typewriter which was formally unveiled monday by dragon systems inc., is billed As the first of its kind in the world. A my Only regret is that your product did no to come out 20 years ago Quot Frank Whitney a quadriplegic Maryland computer scientist told the company in a letter written on the system. Whitney has used the system for the past year. The typewriter which consists of software and a speech recognition circuit Board for personal computers allows users to create memos manuscripts and other documents by speaking instead of typing. Users speak into a microphone and see text appear on a video screen at the rate of 35 words a minute. The $9,000 system can recognize 30,000 words and adapt itself to individual speakers. Until now voice activated systems had not been Able to recognize More than 5,000 words. The commands Are simple. To turn off the system one says. A voice console go to  to turn it on the command is a voice console Wake  a mistake is corrected by saying a oops Quot and repeating the Correct word. Many functions can be operated manually As Well. Dragon dictate is compatible with an ism personal computer with a 386 microprocessor. A the technology can address All segments of the would help them Trace break ins the newspaper said. No classified military computers have been affected and damage has been slight to the internet system unidentified government officials told the newspaper. The computer attack is being run through a single hidden location. But to avoid detection the Hacker is connecting to internet through a series of computers. The program is designed to find a file containing the systems passwords and copy the file into another computer for decoding. Some of the break ins were traced to Texas and new Mexico before investigators lost the Trail. Internet was thrown into chaos in november 1988 when a program written by Robert Tappan Morris a graduate student at Cornell University jammed the system. The new program is not the same As one that Morris used. His program copied itself from computer to computer As a computer virus  your voice a dragon systems executive David Pinto shows off the voice activated typewriter at Newton mass