European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 6, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 b the stars and stripes Friday March 6, 1992 at a glance people looking for a tasty Chicken alternative should think about the thigh. See a Brood of Chicken stories on pages 14,15 and 16. _ _ _ military expert Defeated rep. Beverly b. Byron a senior member of the House armed services committee has been struck Down by voter Dingru Nelement with incumbents political experts say. A Page 4 beating trial opens the trial of four White los Angeles police officers accused of beating a Black Man began thursday with a screening of the Home videotape of the incident that stirred National outrage. A Page 6 Stone praises Juk efforts Oliver Stone director of Juk said wednesday that a Congress deserves an Oscar Quot for moving to release documents on the assassination of president John f. Kennedy. A Page 7 Miner Rescue halted rescuers halted efforts thursday to reach 150 Coal miners trapped by an explosion after poisonous Gas reached dangerous Levels. A Page 8 welfare record set a record 4.7 million families Are getting welfare to pay for life s necessities. A Page 17 Index Abby Ann Landers .19 action line. 16 comics. 19-21 commentary. .13 crossword. .19 faces a no places a. 18 letters. .12 Money matters. 17 sports. 22-28 to listings. .27 weather. .11 virus from Page 1 age area a of the pc was wiped out last week because the equipments clock was set incorrectly triggering the premature virus attack. The Michelangelo virus infected As Many As 500 new computers shipped in december by leading Edge products in Massachusetts. It has also been found in 2,400 of the 3,000 pcs at the new Jersey Institute of technology Campus in Newark and across the country from Washington d.c., All the Way to California in Washington the Senate computer system notified All Senate offices that the Michelangelo virus had been discovered in More than one Senate office. A it is urgent that you Back up your files and use a virus Detec Tion program before March 6 to make sure your offices pcs Are not infected a the message said. Inf world the computer Industry newspaper claims that chips amp technologies corp. Inadvertently distributed copies of the Michelangelo virus with free disks containing a program called pimps at Codex the computer Industry Trade show in Las vegas in october. Michael Carlin who represents a tree corp. And its ajl Safe anti virus software said that the same virus infected email 2.0 demonstration disks shipped out by a Vinci corp. A Survey of computer Security experts conducted by info world indicates that while awareness of the virus is High actual encounters Are Low. A in Only one out of 20 Calls Are we getting people who have actually encountered the Michelangelo virus a said Robert Bales of the National computer association in Washington. A others have just heard of  the Orange county Calif Register newspaper a d the virus May have infected up to 5 Mill lbs computers which use pc Dos or is Dos or its variants As an operating system though Jim Louderback of pc week Magazine believes the number is closer to 250,000. Winn Schwartau executive director of the Nashville  International partnership against computer terrorism estimates that around the world i million computers Are infected. Experts say the Cost of restoring affected systems could reach $300 million though again estimates Are hard to come by until the damage is done. Peter Tippett chairman of certs International corp. In Cleveland quotes a study by his company As saying the average Cost of infection was $250 for every computer at the affected company whether or not it was infected by the virus. He noted that even machines seemingly not affected a and every disk must be checked to make sure they done to carry the virus. Only 15 percent of corporations currently have adequate Security measures in place to prevent infection by viruses such As Michelangelo according to a study by Dat quest s virus prevalence study. A wide Range of companies Are offering software to detect and remove viruses like Michelangelo. Anti virus software that inf world has determined is effective against Michelangelo virus includes untouchable Central Point anti virus a Safe Norton antivirus safety disk Novi Vir Safe vireo pc 2.1, and scan and clean. Users could also have fooled the virus into not going off on schedule by using the Dos Date command before March 6 to reset the computers Date to sometime after today. This solution of course would not get rid of the virus but would buy time until the suspected infected disk can be cleaned. Kerrey from Page 1 standing As the democratic race Heads into crucial primaries in the South and Industrial states Over the next two weeks Arkansas gov. Bill Clinton former Massachusetts sen. Paul Tsongas Iowa sen. Tom Harkin and former California gov. Jerry Brown. Kerrey endorsed none of them but said he would support any of them in the fall Campaign. He said president Bush is a the Only unelectable  that seemed a bouquet tossed in the direction of Clinton. Kerrey said last week in Georgia that questions about Clinton a use of a Vietnam Era draft deferment would make him Ripe As a a soft Peanut for Bush in the fall. Thursday he said he would a Campaign feverishly to help elect the Arkansas governor if Clinton is the nominee. In his valedictory address Kerrey offered a reprise of the themes he stressed in his Campaign a american leaders need to Wake up and recognize the need to treat children better to provide National health insurance and address other concerns Kerrey said. He was flying Home to Nebraska later in the Day for a Campaign style rally meant to bolster his standing in his Home state where his Senate term expires in 1994. Kerrey became the second dropout in the race. Virginia gov. L. Douglas Wilder ran briefly but folded his Campaign before the first ballots were cast. On paper Kerrey was an attractive candidate a wounded Vietnam Veteran a popular former governor of Nebraska serving his first Senate term. He launched his quest for the White House saying he wanted to become the Leader for a new generation of americans and made National health insurance the Centrepiece of his Campaign. But except for a Victory in South Dako tags primary on feb. 25, he fizzled everywhere. He came in a weak third in new Hampshire a first in the nation primary and came away from last tuesdays eight primaries and caucuses in debt and without a single Victory to his credit. A after tuesday i Felt like the jamaican bobsled team a he quipped. A we had a lot of spirit but unfortunately we did no to get a lot of  he said he caught a few bad Breaks along the Way conceded that a few were self inflicted but said that even so a i consider myself the Luckiest Man in the  Kerrey gave Way in Good humor a joking that he could remain in the Senate but a Nebraska newspaper reporter who covered his National travels would have to go Home and a cover county commissioners  he made Clear he is ready to resume the political wars in the Senate. A for me the fight is simply going to move on to new Arenas a he said. Iraq from Page 1 obstructing the inspectors in other ways. The United states has raised the possibility of seizing iraqi assets Frozen in foreign countries since the persian Gulf War if Baghdad continues to defy . Resolutions requiring the destruction of Iraa a arsenals. Britain played a key role in the  Force that drove Iraq out of Kuwait last year. Pressure against Iraq must be maintained Hurd told by cd a radio 4, adding a we have not ruled out a military  iraqis ambassador to the Arab league Nabil Najm said this week that Iraq is a completely and seriously committed to implementing the . Resolutions. But . Observers say Iraq has defied All . Efforts to Force compliance. In thursdays interview Hurd criticized Saddam for a defying continued resolutions of the Security Council a and urged the 15-nation Council to maintain pressure on Iraq. Iraqis Deputy prime minister Tariq Aziz and a senior delegation from Iraq Are expected at the United nations next week to address the Issue. Quot after that we have to consider together As we have successfully before what is needed to make the pressure effective a Hurd said. The foreign Secretary portrayed Saddam As a Man of weakened Power. A the Days when he strutted about sitting on Kuwait an apparent Victor have gone a Hurd said. A a he a a bedraggled figure in the Arab world As a whole but of course he s still a tyrant capable of doing great harm to his own  British lawmaker Emma Nicholson who has made three trips to shiite refugee Camps in Southern Iraq accused the iraqi regime of a mass genocide and urged that . Human rights monitors be sent to the Region. A we in the West cannot sit Back and do nothing a Nicholson told a meeting of the iraqi human rights commission of inquiry in London the United nations Security Council must Convene a special meeting to insist on human rights monitors to be sent to Iraq to protect the  hundreds Hail Gorbachev in Bonn Bonn up a several Hundred people turned up in the streets of Bonn thursday to cheer former soviet president Mikhail s. Gorbachev hailed As a hero by huge crowds during his previous two visits to Germany. One of the highlights on the second Day of the former soviet leaders private visit thursday was a lunch appointment with Willy Brandt a the onetime West German Chancellor. The lunch with Llie former social democratic party Leader was one the Many meetings Gorbachev has scheduled with current and former German politicians during his eight Day visit which came at the invitation of his German publisher Bertelsmann. The trip is apparently partly aimed at promoting Gorbachev As an author a his latest Book is due out in april and several newspapers Are printing his new syndicated column. The Welcome from those who lined the streets to see him drive past thursday contrasted sharply with his past to Muir Phant Tours of Germany a in May 198 and in november 1990, just after unifies Tion. At a meeting wednesday night Char cellar Helmut Kohl made a Point of at dressing Gorbachev As a emr. President and said germans were extremely Gratt Ful for the support he had Given to thy cat on of their country in Octoba