European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 15, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Vol. 50, no. 275 350 wednesday january 15,1992 est d 8693 awas that Story about iraqi virus contaminated Washington a did . Intelligence agents sabotage iraqis air defense by infecting a crucial computer network with a a a virus transmitted by a Printer smuggled into Baghdad . News and world report says senior american government officials told the Magazine that the operation did take place and that it worked. Trouble is a computer Industry publication inf world a sketched out a strikingly similar scenario in a column that ran in its april 1, 1991, Issue. That article was an april fools joke dreamed up by writer John Gantz. The main author of the . News and world report article Brian Duffy said a i have no doubt that . Intelligence agents carried out such an operation. But he said the similarities with the inf world article were Quot obviously  Duffy said the Magazine was rechecking its sources see virus on Page 2bush says Saddam not complying with . Edicts Washington apr president Bush said tuesday that Iraq has a Large numbers of undeclared ballistic missiles and May still be trying to produce copies of the scud missile that it bought from foreign suppliers before the persian Gulf War. In a report to Congress Bush also said that documents found in Iraq and inspections conducted after the War confirm that Saddam Hussein was trying to build nuclear weapons. A these documents and facilities reveal a Well funded and broadly based nuclear weapons development program involving sophisticated facilities a the president said. He said further investigation was required. The presidents report was released just two Days before the first anniversary of the Start of the .-led War against Iraq. The report was intended to keep Congress informed of efforts to win Iraq s compliance with resolutions adopted by the . Security Council. Bush said that inspection teams created under a Security Council Resolution have supervised the destruction of 62 ballistic missiles 18 fixed missile launch pads 33 ballistic missile warheads and 127 missile storage support Racks. In addition he said they destroyed Large amounts of see Saddam on Page 2yeltsin rails at free Market sabotage Moscow apr president Boris Yeltsin besieged tuesday by russians upset Over soaring prices accused state suppliers of sabotaging his free Market reforms by producing luxury goods when Basic goods Are scarce. Quot these swindlers Are doing it on Pur Iose to Frame us setting these prices Yeltsin told a critical crowd pressing in on him in a meat store in the Bryansk Region of Southern Russia. He also pledged to continue his reforms and rejected legislative demands that his government resign. Quot the government is not a pair of socks one can just throw away a he said. A by the Way even socks Are not thrown away these  Yeltsin on a trip to promote his economic policies that have sparked unrest across Russia had his schedule almost totally disrupted by people who wanted to complain about the higher prices that went into effect Jan. 2, russian television reported. In other developments tuesday a Yeltsin suffered a political setback when the russian constitutional court voided his decree that merged the ministries of internal affairs which runs the police and the state Security bodies including the former Kab secret police russian to reported. A demonstrators picketed the russian see Yeltsin on Page 2 Mikhail Gorbachev arrives at his Moscow think tank on tuesday for a meeting with former Secretary of state Lenry  restrict forced separation of mid careerists by Chuck Vinch Washington Bureau. Washington a defense department officials have told the services that they cannot Force mid career personnel out of the military until they Are first Given the Chance to sign for one of the two new voluntary in Nepal piece of guidance contained in a recent memorandum from Pentagon manpower chief Christopher Jehn to the services on How they Are to use the two plans to trim their personnel Levels Over the the memo also says that services Erners targeted for separation will be Able to pick either plan. The pay options authorized by Congress late last year Are called the voluntary separation incentive Vii and the special separation Benefit sub. Both payments use a formula based on final Basic pay and years of service but the Vii is an annual payment to be stretched out Over twice the number of years of Active service while the sub is a Lump sum payment that has a lower Overall value than the \ is. The services Are now in the process of drawing up their own implementing instructions for using the two pay plans based on the defense department guidance including which Job skills Are Likely to be targeted. In a recent interview Jehn said the two plans will generally be offered to people in skills that Are either overpopulated or no longer needed in the smaller see rules on Page 2 coming Friday in Europe