European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 6, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes Friday March 6, 1992 at a glance 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 officers suffer setback defense attorneys in the brutality trial of four los Angeles police officers were barred wednesday from opening their cases with any Quot character assassination Quot of the Black victim. A Page 6 Stone praises Juk efforts Oliver Stone director of Juk said wednesday that Quot 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. Page 17 Index Abby Ann Landers 19 action line. 16 comics. 19-21 commentary. 13 crossword. .19 faces no places .18 letters. Money matters. 17 sports. 22-28 to listings. 27 weather a. 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 Sims 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., ail 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 clip. 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 Al Safe anti virus software said that the same Sims 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 Sims is High actual encounters Are Low. A in Only one out of 20 Calls Are we getting people who have actually encountered the Michelangelo Sims a said Robert Bales of the National computer association in Washington. A others have just heard of  the Orange county calif., Register newspaper said the virus Mav have infected up to 5 million 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  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 data quest Sims prevalence study. A wide Range of companies Are offering software to detect and remove viruses like Michelangelo. Anti Sims software that inf world has determined is effective against Michelangelo virus include untouchable Central Point anti Sims Al Safe Norton antivirus safety disk Novi Vir Safe vireo pc 2.1 and scan and clean. Users could also have fooled the Sims 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 Sims but would buy time until the suspected infected disk can be cleaned. Kerrey from Page 1 state where his Senate term expires in 1994. On paper Kerrey was an attractive candidate a wounded Vietnam Veteran who won the medal of Honor and 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 Dakota a primary on feb. 25, he fizzled everywhere. He came in a weak third in new Hampshire a primary the first of the Campaign. Ana he came away from tuesdays eight primaries and caucuses in debt Ana without a single Victory to his credit. Kerrey made Clear he is ready to resume the political wars in the Senate. He endorsed none of his democratic rivals but 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 Clinton a Vietnam Era draft difficulties would make him Ripe As a a soft Peanut for Bush in the fall. At his news conference he was cheered loudly by supporters and was flanked by several members of the Senate who had supported his Campaign. A while we had plenty of potential and plenty of enthusiasm unfortunately we do not have plenty of Money a he said. Kerrey had Long been considered a rising democratic Star. But his first National Campaign begun Halfway through his Senate term was plagued by missteps and miscalculations. He seemed to recover after open microphones picked up a joke he was telling another candidate about lesbians. And again after the labor department cited his restaurant Chain for child labor violations. But Kerrey a outspokenness tripped him up repeatedly. He conceded one of his Campaign ads had backfired and rarely tried to put a Good face on a bad showing. A my problem is that i tend to be honest a he has said. His Campaign a even the candidate himself a seemed to be reinvented every week. First there was Kerrey the Tough Trade Warrior prompting rivals to accuse him of Japan bashing. Then there was Kerrey the War hero who maintained his unquestionable patriotism made him the most electable candidate. There was also Kerrey the health care Reform candidate a a theme he sounded so often that Many observers said he was missing the larger economic picture. Clayton Kauffman of grand Island neb., a Friend for 11 years said Kerrey did not display his wit or humor during much of the Campaign. A when he sat Home with familiar faces that a when he really Cooks a Kauffman said. Kauffman also said Kerrey had never Dweller on his War record before and suggested the shift was made on the advice of misguided consultants. A the Public appreciates modesty in their heroes. Sometimes you get the a experts on a Campaign and they try to shape a person to the  t Iraq from Page 1 implementing the . Resolutions. Iraqis Deputy prime minister Tariq Aziz and a senior delegation from Iraq Are expected at the United nations next week to address the Issue. In thursdays interview Hurd urged the United nations 15-nation Security Council to maintain pressure on Iraq. The foreign Secretary portrayed sad dam 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 a still a tyrant capable of doing great harm to his own  Bush predicts Castro to be swept away Hialeah Fla. Up president Bush assailed cubans Fidel Castro on wednesday comparing the neighbouring Leader to soviet dictator Josef Stalin and saying the winds of change sweeping the world would inevitably Lead to his collapse. Bush told a stadium filled audience of cuban americans that Quot Castro is trying to crush the cuban spirit and the cuban society in a manner like Stalin and the world has run out of patience with Fidel  in his sharpest attack on one of the world s last remaining communists Bush said a i am looking Forward to the Day when democracy has triumphed and the Castro dictatorship nearby is no  he added a we cannot and we will not have a Normal dialogue with Cuba As Long As that dictatorship is in  Bush was flanked by his son Jeb his wife and a number of South Florida cuban american officials. Several thousand people in this working class enclave near Miami stood in the bleachers waving Bush Quayle �?T92 signs and periodically interrupting Bush a speech with cries of a four More years four More  but outside the stadium lining the presidents motorcade were several Hundred haitians carrying signs that pleaded for the reinstatement of ousted president Jean Bertrand Aristide. To those people Bush said a i want to see democracy restored to Haiti and we will continue to work for the return of president  but not All the placards were supportive of Bush who has been criticized for forcing the return of thousands of fleeing haitians. The Bush administration claims the haitians Are not running from political persecution a the test that immigrants must meet for Asylum a but economic deprivation. In some ways the rally seemed out of place As Bush himself acknowledged that most latin american nations Are embracing democracy. But the anti Castro theme is powerful in this part of the country. In addition Bush a anti communist rhetoric could help him Battle gop challenger Patrick Buchanan an Arch conservative. Bush said a i am looking Forward to being the first president to step on the free soil of Post Castro  a Fidel Castro Quot he declared Quot is hopelessly  the president who is being harshly criticized by Buchanan for supporting foreign Aid during economic troubles at Home vowed to offer financial support to Cuba after the fall of Castro