European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 4, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday april 4, 1991 today s tip Quot c investing in baseball cards once a child a Hobby has become big business. And now some investment advisers Are suggesting one More method of cashing in on the a a craze. A a a  a a a. Done to invest in the cards them selves but in the Stock of publicly traded companies that make the a cards. A a a a a. A a a  a a a two of the Best bests Are Topps and Fleer some analysts said. Fleer Stock in particular has been Jim an uptick. The company went Public in mid-1990 at $15 a share. It recently traded at $28 a share. Conversion rates London up wednesdays rates for the . Dollar to other currencies. Figures Are expressed in dollars to the British Pound other local currencies in dollars Gold was quoted at $359 25 an ounce. A a a. April3 april 2 British poured .1.7655 a a a 1.82,. German Mark 1.6805 1.6645 French franc. ,.5.6970 56970 dutch guilder.,.1.9035 1.8915 belgian franc 34.9275 125140 italian lira253.25 1240,00 Swiss franc �?z1.4t40 .1.4260 greek drachma,.,.,.,. .183.32 a -182.30 turkish lira. ,3,699.50 3,699 80 saudi arabian riyal.3.7503. 3,7503 Spanish peseta. .104.68 a a 103-98 portuguese escuda.�?zi.�?z.�?z�?z148.45 147.60 Canadian Dollar ,1.1570 i.1550 austrian Schilling,., .11.845 11.6025 norwegian Krone. 6.655 a a 6,5310 danish Krone. .6.48 6.4350 these Are unofficial rates As re Quot ported by wire service and banking sources and they Are listed to give some idea of daily currency fluctuations. The Only official rate concerns the Sale of German Marks to . Personnel for personal use and this will be 1.63 through thursday based on wednesdays noontime Price fixing. New York Exchange new York up a the 15 most Active stocks in new change York Stock Exchange composite trading on tuesday. Slock Hercules inc Psi resources Philip Morfis a ism corp Pepsico inc. Genl electric at amp to co. Get corp a Merrill Lynch Merrill Lyn Uniss Cor Boeing Quot Amore Lorp co express Safe .2,962,200 2,468,600 2,385,500 2,268,100 i980,700 1,961,000 1.690.100 ii ,496,200 1.374.100 1.373.700 1.346.700 1,325,900 last 36 18 69 % 113 it 35 % 72 % 34%, 31 % 37%. 5% 47%. 29% Nef chg. Off 5 % up % up 2 % a up 1 up1 % up 2% up up % up 2% up up up 1 % american Exchange new York up a Tiibi 10 most Active stocks in american Stock Exchange composite trading tuesday Stock Amdahl corp Western digital us Bio science Americus desc Echo Bay mines Hasbro inc Ich corp sales 938.100 397.200 384,000 364.200 329,900 323.100 266.100 last 14% 5 % 30% 10% 9 24% 5% net chg. Off. Up % up up up % up % unch Dow Jones new York up Dow Jones dosing Range of averages tuesday a 400 industrials 20 transport 40 utilities Quot Quot 500 stocks High 449.82 266.11 145.61 379 50 Low 439.64 263.23 143.37 371 3d change up 10 18 up 2.67 up 224 up 0.20 the stars and stripes. B a Pago 17money matters Man wearing a business suit could pose threat to privacy by John Markoff the new York times in George Orwell a �?o1984,�?T�?T big brother is the dictator of an alb powerful government that systematically Monitor s the lives of its citizens. But now Many computer professionals and civil liberties specialists say they fear that if a big brother tonally arrives he May be wearing not a police uniform but a business suit. It has been 17 years since Congress passed the privacy act of 1974. That act restricts government agencies from exchanging information regulates the information that agencies May collect and gives citizens rights to inspect their files. But the act does no to apply to businesses. With the development of increasingly powerful computer and communications technologies sonic experts say corporations May pose a greater threat to privacy than docs big government since the privacy act was passed companies have begun using a Range of technological advances to gather information on employees and potential customers. By merging the information from several computer data bases direct marketing companies cart compile detailed dossiers on Consumers. Caller identification services now being introduced by Telephone companies allow businesses to a a capture the phone numbers of people who dial toll free information lines and 900  a computer systems also allow managers to Monitor How quickly employees Field Telephone Calls and perform other tasks. The result of All this is the emergence of what some social scientists Call a surveillance society. A information is gathered with laser like precision and sponge like efficiency a said Gary t. Marx a sociologist at the Massachusetts Institute of technology who tracks new surveillance methods. A a it a like a fish in water. We re not even aware of most  at a recent conference of the computer professionals for social responsibility several Hundred civil liberties experts Law enforcement officials and computer scientists considered new dangers posed by technology while some information such As credit reports and video rental logs is protected by Federal Law the United states has not gone As far As six european countries that have made personal privacy a constitutional right. Karen Nussbaum executive director of 9 to 5, the National association of working women said the worst abuses take place in the workplace. A the workers we hear from feel harassed and under the gun a she said. A computer surveillance is not a necessary part of the  she said that 26 million employees in the United states have their work tracked electronically while 10 million have their work evaluated by computer based systems. Laurence h. Tribe a constitutional scholar at Harvard University proposed a constitutional amendment to help the nation Cope with the thorny Legal challenges presented by new computer and communications technologies. He suggested a 27th amendment that would read Quot this constitutions protections for the freedoms of speech press petitions and Assembly and its protections against unreasonable searches and seizures and the deprivation of life Liberty or property without due process of Law shall be construed As fully applicable without regard to the technological method or medium through which information Content is generated stored altered transmitted or  but some maintained that All technologies should not be held to the same Stan-dards./,. A a the particular technology makes a great difference a said Mark Rasch a Justice department attorney who prosecuted the computer science student Robert Tappan Morris for introducing a software virus into a National computer network. _ a you have a very different expectation of privacy if you Are speaking on a Telephone rather than a  Sonie Legal experts said that instead of an amendment Congress should pass Laws that would allow the courts to interpret existing constitutional rights in a Way that applies to privacy invading technology. A a a a in an age of conservative judiciary and Complex technologies we need to fashion and enact Laws to embody our constitutional principles a said Jerry Berman director of the information technology project of the american civil Liber ties Union. Other Legal scholars suggested that the marketplace itself might ultimately safeguard against the misuse of data bases. In response to Public fears the american express corp., for example is com plating a strict privacy code of conduct for governing How the company deals with personal information. Other companies like Equi fax inc. Are experimenting with new products called a consensual data  in such systems Consumers would be asked whether they wanted their names to appear in a data base made available to direct marketing com panics. In Exchange for the consumer a consent Equi fax would act As a filter to screen the companies that could Purchase the information. A a know How to use i by Peggy Davidson Kaiserslautern Bureau Lan Stuhl Germany a Lan Stuhl army regional medical centers Legal office is getting some first Aid from an army Reserve member of the internal Revenue service who is helping people with their personal tax returns. Spec. Charles d. Patterson 25, is a member of the Reserve deployed to Lan Stuhl in january with the 56th station Hospital from Richmond a. In civilian life he is a tax representative in the technical division of the Richmond irs office _. A a tasked if i could be used in this the Legal office due to my civilian experience a Patterson said a its a Chance to gain experience with military people a Chance to hone my  when operation desert storm began Patterson was working in the Lan Stuhl centers casualty office. After the Short War Patterson moved to outpatient records. Now for two Days a week he a in the Legal office assisting soldiers with their tax returns. Patterson has found no major differences Between the Way the Ordinary civilians in Richmond Complete their forms and the Way the members of the military fill in theirs. A the understanding is about the same a Patterson said. A in the civilian world they re More irate More impatient than the military but that might be the Way the military is set up slower More used to  More military people stationed overseas Are concerned about foreign earned income Patterson said and he had to study the publications on foreign income to assist the soldiers. Questions Len filing requirements and desert shield and desert storm deployments Are also frequently asked. Patterson a advice for tax filers is succinct. A be careful a he said. Other advice a be sure to put the figures on the Correct lines. A a read publications on legitimate deductions and tax credits before asking irs pc help. This allows the taxpayer to ask informed questions and get better answers he said. A read the tax tables carefully. A use the proper filing status a double Check and triple Check your math