European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 23, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 10 a the stars and stripes thursday january 23, 1992man sentenced for setting up computer virus san Diego apr a former general dynamics computer Programmer was fined $5,000 for trying to sabotage computers with a a logic bomb that could have erased National Security data. Michael John Lauffenburger 31, also received three years probation tuesday and was ordered to perform 200 hours of Community service. Lauffenburger pleaded guilty nov. 4 to attempted computer tampering. In Exchange charges of attempted computer fraud and tampering which carried a penalty of 10 years in jail and a $500,000 Fine were dropped. He set up the so called logic bomb a Type of computer virus and then resigned from the company. He intended to get hired Back As a High priced consultant to help reconstruct the data that would be lost from the billion Dollar Atlas missile space program when the virus was unleashed authorities said. A co worker accidentally stumbled on the rogue program in Early May. It had been set to go off May 24. Investigators said it would have caused about $100,000 in damage to computer systems at the Kearny Mesa Plant. The Atlas missile developed in the 1950s As an intercontinental ballistic missile has been used As a Booster rocket for space launches. New claim of wiretapping rocks Irish prime minister Dublin Ireland apr prime minister Charles Haughey whose government has been hit by financial scandals and unrest in his own party now faces fresh allegations that he was involved in illegal wiretaps 10 years ago. Sean Doherty made the allegations tuesday after resigning As speaker of the Senate. Haughey Leader of the fianna fail party has a reputation As a political survivor. But news reports speculated that Dohertym a allegations could bring Down Haughey a coalition government. Haughey has repeatedly denied he knew at the time that the telephones of two journalists Bruce Arnold and Geraldine Kennedy were tapped to find the source of leaks from his Cabinet in 1982. At a news conference wednesday Haughey said Quot the truth of the matter is that Sean Doherty did not dare to inform me of what he had authorized until his actions were on the Point of being exposed by the incoming Fine Gael labor coalition Arnold was a political writer for the Irish Independent. Kennedy was a political writer for the sunday Tribune and later the sunday press. Doherty As Justice minister at the time ordered the wiretaps. Doherty said that he had Only been doing his duty As a government minister in 1982 and that Haughey was closely involved in the wiretapping. A was soon As the transcripts from the tapes became available i took them personally to or. Haughey in his office and left them in his Possession a Doherty said. Arnold told British broadcasting corp. Radio wednesday that he always suspected Haughey was behind the Telephone taps. A i never had any doubt about it a he said. A i said so at the time in further articles that i wrote in 1983 and i have held to that View Ever John Bruton the Leader of the main opposition Fine Gael party called for a full inquiry into the affair. Allegations Over the Haughey wiretapping have dogged Haughey but Doherty had previously maintained that the tapping was never discussed at the time with Haughey. The wiretapping was first disclosed by Dohertym a successor As Justice minister Michael Noonan after Haughey a government was Defeated in the general election of november 1982. The journalists were awarded financial damages by the High court in Dublin. Haughey again denied the allegations through a spokesman As late As tuesday. He survived a no Confidence motion nov. 10, the most serious Challenge to his 12-year leadership of his party. Fianna fail legislators in the Dail parliaments lower House voted 55-22 to keep him As their Leader and prime firm Hopes . Partner saves contract los Angeles api a Sumitomo corp. Of America has offered to bring in an american partner in Hopes of saving a commuter rail contract that has been jeopardized by a rising tide of anti japanese sentiment. The los Angeles county transportation commission which awarded the $122 million contract last month ordered Sumitomo on saturday to Stop work on the project. The commission was scheduled to review its decision wednesday. Pressure to cancel the contract has risen since president Bush a japanese trip earlier this month to open the county a markets to . Products. On Jan. 13, the state Assembly voted 70-0 to urge that the contract be cancelled. Sumitomo lobbyist Barna Szabo said tuesday that the company has agreed in principle to form a joint venture with Fairfield be to build the cars. A it is our Hope that they will see we be now got an american partner which Means Many More of the jobs that would have gone overseas will stay Here a Szabo said. Quot it is our Hope that the commission will not cancel the the company was to build rail cars for a 23-mile stretch of commuter rail line that is to begin operating near los Angeles International Airport in 1995. The project is part of a $150 billion 30-year plan to contract a mass transit system including a downtown los Angeles subway that would link All of los Angeles county. The commission originally awarded the contract to Sumitomo Over Morrison Knudsen corp. Of Boise Idaho. Although the american company offered to do the Job for $5 million less and with More . Workers commissioners said Sumitomo was better qualified. The japanese company built cars for a similar commuter line that began operating Between Long Beach and downtown los Angeles two years ago. Sumitomo estimated the project would create 1,750 . Jobs according to commission records. Morrison Knudsen estimated it would provide 4,900 . Jobs. Cuba vows to crack Down on wretched foes of regime Mexico City apr Cuba declared War on its Domestic opponents tuesday a Day after a firing squad executed an exile accused of leading a Miami based infiltration team. A we will not give the squalid and wretched ranks of the internal fifth column the slightest Opportunity to raise its head Quot declared a front Page editorial in Gran a the cuban communist party newspaper. It also warned opponents abroad that Cuba would give a no Quarter Quot in its defense of the revolution a the term used for president Fidel Castro a one party communist state. The warning came a Day after the official news Agency Prensa Latina reported that a firing squad had executed Eduardo Diaz Betancourt 38, the alleged ringleader of a three Man commando team that planned a series of terrorist bombings. A with these actions the cuban regime shows its True face Quot state department spokesman Richard Boucher said. A this pattern of brutality betrays the cuban governments own fear of grandma said Castro a government would not allow the internal opposition to a mobilize in order to comply with the anti National anti patriotic role that the United states has scripted. Quot we will fight them without Quarter with the Force of the masses and the Law in the political Field and in the ideological Field with every Means and in every Arena a grandma said. Prensa Latina provided the text of the grandma editorial in a dispatch from Havana which was monitored in Mexico City. It said the United states had no a direct responsibility for the commando team but is at fault for encouraging anti Castro exile groups and dissidents living on the Island. A was Long As this policy exists there cannot be the slightest tolerance or flexibility a grandma said. Boucher said the United states supports a peaceful democratic change in Cuba and we will continue to support those who work toward that Cuba has said the commandos planned to make Contact with cuban dissidents. It has Long insisted dissidents Are tools of the Cia. The crackdown comes As Cuba confronts its worst crisis since the 1959 revolution. The fall of the soviet communist party has left Cuba politically and economically isolated. . Aggression has been the governments rallying cry in its Effort to keep cubans 10 million people United behind Castro in the face of nearly crushing hardship. The capture of Diaz Betancourt and his companions has Given the government a dramatic Concrete example of the a a counterrevolutionary threat it has warned mom fined for pushing flight attendant Denver apr a Mother who says she swore at a flight attendant because she was stressed out after a family vacation to Walt Disney world pleaded guilty to simple assault and was fined $500. Jane Ann Levy of Aurora told . Magistrate Richard Borchers on tuesday that she lost her temper on the Jan. 1 flight Home from Orlando fla., with her three Young children and her husband who had the flu. Other passengers aboard the Continental airlines flight told the Fri that in addition to swearing at attendant Tracy Able Levy grabbed Able by the arms twisted her wrists and pushed her into a at Giessen depot offers appliances furniture Giessen Germany a the defense re utilization and marketing office has announced an appliance an furniture Sale Friday in building 250 at the Giesse depot. Items for Sale include electric and Gas ranges was ers dryers refrigerators chairs hutches buffets an other furniture. Appliances Are 220 Volt. The Sale is open to id card holders from 9 . To 1 . And to the general Public from 10 . Until noon. Purchases must be made in . Dollars Only and it moved by noon on the Day of the Sale. No checks i be accepted. All merchandise will be sold a was
