European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 13, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday March 13, 1992 the stars and stripes c Page 3women combat panel adds balance by Chuck Vinch Washington Bureau Washington the White House this week named six women to the 15-member Pentagon commission tasked with studying the Issue of expanding combat jobs for women in the military. The commission mix appears to be an Effort to mute previous criticism that the panel formed at the direction of Congress last year would be top heavy with older male combat veterans with no stake or interest in opening More combat jobs to women. In october nine women a and civil rights groups made that charge in a position paper circulated on Capitol Hill. The paper was signed by Shirley Sagawa senior counsel at the National women a Law Center in Washington. Air National guard it. Col. Doug Hart a Pentagon spokesman said the individuals chosen to serve on the commission were selected through a an informal  a the department of defense is very sensitive to both sides of the Issue a Hart said. A for example if you look at the two Active duty members one is male and one is  but there is no guarantee that females will automatically favor opening More combat jobs to women. Sagawa said that of the names she recognized at least two Are known to oppose combat roles for women a Elaine Donnelly head of the Michigan based coalition for military readiness and Charles mos Kos a military sociologist and professor at Northwestern University in Evanston 111. She noted that another female member Kate of Beirne a former official in the Pentagon a Force management and personnel directorate now works for the heritage foundation one of the More conservative Washington think tanks. A we Hope the commission will carry out its work in a fair open minded Way a Sagawa said. A but clearly there Are people on it who would not be expected to advocate changing current  said she did not see anyone on the list who is definitively on the record As favouring expanded combat roles for women although she noted that the roster includes Meredith Neizer who headed the defense advisory committee on women in the services two years ago when that panel made an ultimately unsuccessful Effort to have the army conduct a four year test of women in ground combat units. The commissions designated chairman is retired air Force Gen. Robert Herres former vice chairman of the joint chiefs of staff now an executive with a Texas based insurance firm. Among the other women named Are retired maj. Gen. Mary Clarke currently chief of the advisory committee on women veterans at the department of veterans affairs and Sarah White of the science applications International corp. In Mclean a. Rounding out the commissions female contingent is its Only Active duty woman capt. Mary Finch currently assigned As a tactical officer at the . Military Academy West Point . The commission has been controversial since its creation last fall As part of the fiscal 1992 defense authorization act a move that followed a months Long debate sparked by the solid combat performance of women service members in the persian Gulf War. The commission was essentially a Trade off for supporters of an Effort to repeal the so called a combat exclusion Laws that have barred women from serv but dearly there Are people on it who would not be expected to advocate changing current  ing aboard combat aircraft in the Navy and air Force since world War ii. To win enough support for that repeal Effort its advocates had to accept a proposal to create the commission a concept floated by other lawmakers who favored a a go slow policy toward expanding combat roles for women. The commissions mandate is to study the entire Range of policy implications of women in combat jobs including ground combat units and submit a final report with recommendations to the White House by dec. 15. After the commission was created Pentagon officials insisted on waiting for its final report before deciding on any further changes on assignment policies for military women including the Issue of whether to assign them to combat aircraft. That angered the lawmakers who fought to repeal the combat exclusion Laws including rep. Beverly Byron d-md., who Heads the House armed services military personnel subcommittee. An aide to Byron said that while the fiscal 1992 defense authorization act did not specifically direct the Pentagon to begin preparations for assigning women to combat aircraft a clearly we Felt that the spirit of the Law was for the services Shirley Sagawa senior counsel National women s Law Center to move in that  but at a news briefing thursday. Pentagon spokesman Pete Williams reinforced previous statements by defense Secretary Dick Cheney that no changes to current assignment policies for women will be made until the commission completes its work. Rounding out the commission roster Are a Maxwell Thurman a retired army general who was chief of the . Southern Conid during operation just cause the invasion of Panama in 1989. A Samuel Cockerhan a retired brigadier general who works As a consultant for defense aviation and strategic mobility systems Alexandria a. A Brig. Gen. Thomas Draude director of Public affairs for the Marine corps in Washington. A William Henderson until recently the Chieff the the . Army research Institute in Washington. A James Hogg president and chief executive officer of the National Security Industrial association in Washington. A Newton Minow counsel at the Law firm of Sidley and Austin in Chicago. A Ronald Ray an attorney in Louisville  unlucky Day for computer users by Leslie Cauley the Baltimore Sun computer users who managed to make it through last Friday a the strike Date for the Michelangelo computer virus a with their files intact  breathe too easy. Another virus is set to hit today Friday the 13th. Dubbed Jerusalem for the City in which it is thought to have originated today a virus is decidedly less destructive than its March 6 relative but a problem nonetheless. The Jerusalem virus which has been around for about three years shows up every Friday the 13th. Like Michelangelo the Jerusalem virus affects Only ism equipment and clones. Unlike Michelangelo the Jerusalem virus obliterates files Over a period of time not immediately. Left untreated files hit by the Friday the 13th computer Bug wont execute properly and will require time consuming reconstruction. A a it a not nearly As bad As Michelangelo but its still pretty Nasty a said Wayne Carpenter president of Fetics inc. Of Agency keeps Down a to Earth a Outlook by Kevin Robinson staff writer Darmstadt Germany a sending satellites into orbit around the Earth tracking them and bringing them Home Are Complex enough tasks on a Good Day. However performing those same functions amid a computer virus that activates on the superstitious Day of reckoning a Friday the 13th a could give the organization with one of the most elaborate computer operations in Europe More than just a Day of bad Luck. Jerusalem As the Friday the 13th computer virus is nicknamed Isnit causing any hysterics at the multinational european space operations Centre in Darmstadt said computer operators there. A we have conducted a systematic inquiry of All our computers using software called Vir scan and we be discovered nothing so far a said Jocelyne Landeau Festoc. The space operations Arm of the european space Agency uses a Central computer facility called the Multi satellite support system to process information from up to six orbiting satellites. On a much smaller scale Landau said soc uses personal computers to conduct Ordinary word processing and run sophisticated scientific information packages. Soc officials said they did no to suffer any computer havoc from Michelangelo a the virus that struck March 6 a and even though Jerusalem is considerably weaker they Arentt ignoring the threat. A we discourage copying any software but if its done Vir scan is used to Check it Quot Landeau said. Vienna va., an authorized agent for Mcafee software a popular anti virus program. One tip off that a machine has been infected with the Friday the 13th Bug is that its memory is about 2,000 bytes Fuller than Normal Carpenter said. Another tip off is that a machine wont turn on properly Carpenter said. Infected machines can be cleaned with one of a number of anti viral computer programs. The anti viral programs seek out and destroy any virus they find. More than 1,000 computer viruses exist. Several viruses Are expected to hit in rapid succession after Friday. The maltese amoeba virus which sends computer users a poem before blowing up files will arrive sunday. More than half a dozen different viruses a with names such As Casper and Christmas tree a Are expected to activate april 1, april fools Day which traditionally has been a big Day for computer  members tied to blackmail threat Bonn Germany apr self styled commandos from a a country that exists no More threatened to kill German leaders attack . Soldiers and Poison drinking water if they weren to paid 12 million Marks $7 Millionth government said wednesday. Former members of the East German Stasi secret police Are apparently behind the blackmail attempt said Dieter Vogel spokesman for Chancellor Helmut Kohl. A 36-year-old Man has been arrested but others May be on the Loose. A Well founded suspicions were expressed in the Cabinet meeting today that this concerns former members of the ministry for state Security a said Vogel using the stasis formal name. The threat raised anew the question How dangerous Are former Stasi officers who May still be bitter about the dismantling of their communist country nearly two years ago other bizarre occurrences have since been traced to the Stasi legacy. Unknown vandals ransacked and stole documents from the offices of attorneys for Erich Mielke the 84-year-old jailed former Stasi chief. Mielke a on trial for the 1931 slayings of two policemen a gives the appearance in court of being mentally impaired. And now there Are signs that remnants of the Stasi could be trying to blackmail the unified German government. One letter said the group had prepared a commando undertakings including a elimination of decision makers shutting Down Energy and communications centers disruption of transportation a poisoning drinking water with a material from chemical weapons and a attacks on assemblies of  . And British military installations Are also potential targets said the Bun  Germany a Fri which has obtained detailed plans of the terrorists intentions