European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 16, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 a the stars and stripes Friday August 16, 1991 australian to face trial Over breaking into . Computers ride Mem tigers amps Ken Gorgo by the Washington Post an australian court wednesday ordered a 20-year-old computer Hacker from Melbourne Australia to stand trial on charges of breaking into . Nuclear research and space Agency computer systems by Telephone and allegedly shutting Down a Nasa network in Norfolk va., for 24 hours. Nahshon even Chaim a computer science student at the Royal Melbourne Institute of technology who called himself Phoenix was charged with 47 counts of penetrating australian and . Computers and altering or deleting data said Lisa West of the department of Public prosecutions in Melbourne. In addition to the charge of shutting Down a computer system of the National aeronautics and space administration in Norfolk even Chaim on feb. 22, 1990, West said even Chaim is accused of gaining unauthorized Access to computers of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California and making unspecified Quot alterations to data at the nuclear research facility. The Case is australians first test of Quot landmark legislation passed in 1989 to Deal with new computer crimes inadequately covered by previous Laws said Keith Livingston a spokesman for the australian Federal police in Melbourne. He said even Chaim and two alleged accomplices a fellow omit student and a 21-year-old computer Programmer were arrested in april 1990 for the hacking offences which were said to have been committed from february to March. The Sterling Mitchell 5, finds Riding stripes the stuffed Mascot of the Sembach tigers More Tun than sunday s Continental sports conference game with the visiting Hahn Hawks in Germany. Sterling is the son of Victor and Gladys Mitchell of Sembach a. Abduction of German tourists staged turkish official claims two others also face Legal proceedings Livingston said. An Fri spokesman confirmed the arrests but would not elaborate. Officials at nasal a Washington Headquarters said they were not familiar with the Case or the alleged shutdown of the Nasa computer system. A Livermore spokesman said the Laboratory referred its involvement to the department of Energy whose spokesman Joseph Karpinski said a no classified systems were  in Melbourne on wednesday at a pretrial hearing prosecutor Richard maid ment told the magistrates court that even Chaim used a Home computer and a Telephone to cause considerable mischief with his Hacker friends. Even chaims lawyer Felicity Hampel argued that All but one of the charges should be dropped because they applied to activities outside Australia that were not in the courts jurisdiction. But magistrate John Wilkinson rejected the arguments after two Days of hearings ordering the student to stand trial in a county court. Even Chaim who did not immediately enter a plea was released on $780 bail. The trial is expected within six months. Prosecutor Maidment told the court that in tampering with computers of a company he identified As exec com systems corp. Of Austin Texas even Chaim destroyed a number of records including the firms Only inventory of its assets. He said Security efforts to counteract the hacking Cost the company an estimated $21,000. Australian police said even Chaim also broke into computers at the University of California at Berkeley the University of Wisconsin in Madison and Purdue University in Indiana. There was no word on what if any damage was done in those cases. D1yarbakir, Turkey a a senior turkish official alleged wednesday that the kidnapping of 10 German tourists by separatist kurd in Turkey this month was staged to gain sympathy for the rebels cause. The Contention was made by Hayri Koz Kacioglu the a so called a super governor in charge of turkeys 11 Southeastern provinces where the illegal kurdish labor party pkg has been waging a guerrilla War since 1984. During a Diyarbakir press conference in which he announced he was turning Over his Post to a successor Koz Kacioglu said there was evidence showing that the abduction on aug. 1 had been staged. The tourists which included four women and three children were released after eight Days and flown to Germany. Pkg claimed responsibility for the abduction. German embassy spokesman Walter Lindner brushed aside the Contention calling it an a absurd  a we have so far no hints of evidence that such allegations could have any base a Lindner said. Koz Kacioglu said that although the germans were reportedly snatched away in the Middle of the night they took their cameras and other possessions. He said they also had Telephone numbers for newspapers and other Media organizations in Germany. He said that after their release they had tried to hand a bag full of exposed film and videocassettes to German police who had come to assist in the search. He said turkish officials confiscated the bag. Koz Kacioglu displayed pictures which he said showed the abducted germans posing or dancing with their captors. He did not say How the germans might have arranged to be part of the purportedly staged kidnapping. Denmark oks building Tunnel Bridge to Sweden Copenhagen Denmark Fuji in a historic decision wednesday Denmark a parliament approved plans for a combined Tunnel and Bridge to Sweden removing the last obstacle for the project that was approved by the swedish parliament on june 12. The parliament adopted the proposal with 117 votes for and 42 votes against. The project to be finished by the end of the decade will consist of a 1.5-mile Tunnel from Copenhagen to the danish Island of Salt Holm and a 10-mile Bridge from Salt Holm to the Southern port of Malmo in Sweden. The governments of the two countries which will share the initial construction costs estimate the total Cost of the project to run to $2.75 billion All of which will eventually be paid Back through user tolls. Ariane rocket puts satellite into orbit Kourou French Guiana apr the most powerful version of the european ariane rocket blasted off wednesday and 22 minutes later released a telecommunications satellite into orbit. The ariane 44l rocket with four strap on boosters carrying liquid fuel took off at 8 15 p.m., the Start of one of two launch windows set by officials of Trianes each the european space Agency a commercial ranch. Arian space which has its launching site on the Northeast coast of South America is the worlds most successful commercial satellite launching operation with More than half the worlds Market. The 33-foot-Long Intelsat Vi-f5 satellite taken aloft wednesday will be Able to handle 120,000 Telephone conversations at once. It is the second Intelsat i satellite to be launched by an ariane rocket. Two other Intelsat i satellites have been taken aloft by american Titan Iii rockets. The v1-f5 satellite is the largest of the satellites belonging to Intelsat the International telecommunications satellite organization. Arian space has launched 59 commercial satellites since 1981 and has contracted to launch 35  of command Naples Italy rear adm. 1 Peter h. Cressy passed the reins of three Mediterranean naval aviation units to rear adm 1 Daniel t. Oliver at a change of command ceremony wednesday at the Naples naval support activity. Oliver assumed command of Fleet air Mediterranean the maritime surveillance and reconnaissance forces and natos maritime air Force Mediterranean. He previously served As head of total Force training and education in the chief of naval personnel a office. Cressy who took command of the three units in Jan. 1990, will retire and assume the position of president of the Massachusetts maritime Academy