European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 05, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes . Saturday february 5, 1994 robber forgets Bank 3 times Over 24 hours Rochester . A a Bank robber has hit the same Bank three times in 24 hours. Rochester Community savings was held up by the same Man wednesday afternoon thursday morning and thursday afternoon said police in Vestiga Srrobert Kerr. A he used a minimum of Effort to change his appearance wearing the same Denim jacket in each robbery but with different accessories including a Blue hat and glasses police said. Each time the robber handed a Teller a not saying he had a gun and demanding Cash. He then disappeared into the crowd with an Undis closed sum of Money. No one was Hurt. Those poor tellers Down there have had enough Kerr said. Police have surveillance camera pictures of the Man. Federal Reserve raises Short term interest rate Washington a the Federal Reserve nudged a key Short term interest rate higher for the first time in five years Friday in a move analysts said would be Felt almost immediately in higher business and consumer rates. In a highly unusual step the fed announced its in Tention to push interest rates higher saying the  Sion had been made at a closed door meeting of top policy makers known As the Federal open Market committee. Analysts viewed the announcement and later fed operations in the Bond Market As confirmation that the fed has established a new target of 3.25 percent for its Federal funds rate which Banks charge one another on overnight Loans. This was an increase from the 3 percent level where the funds rate had been since september 1992. Although the fed had been widely expected to raise rates financial markets were taken by Surprise. Stock and Bond prices fell sharply minutes after the announcement. The Dow Jones Industrial average which had been Little changed before the announce ment plunged nearly 40 Points before regaining sonic ground. Shortly before noon est the Dow was off about 29 Points to the 3,939 level. The fed announced its decision in a statement is sued by Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan. In the past the fed has not announced changes in the direction of the Federal funds rate leaving it to Market watchers to guess at the fed s intentions from its action in the Bond Market. However Greenspan said the Central Bank decided to immediately announce Friday s decision in order to avoid any misunderstanding of the committee s Pur poses Given the fact that this is the first firming of re serve Market conditions by the committee since Early 1989." various economists hailed the announcement saying it would counteract leaks of the committee s decisions. Internet users yarn de of system Brea Washington a users of the giant International computer network in ternet Are being advised to change their passwords because of a rash of break ins to the system. Computer break ins occur when an unauthorized user finds a Way to connect to a computer system often using a stolen password. Once connected the unauthorized user can read private information or change or eliminate data belonging soothers. Intruders have already captured a Cess information for tens of thousands of systems across the internet said an advisory late thursday from the computer emergency response team a federally funded panel that helps coordinate inter connections among computer systems. In the Short term the advisory panel urged users to change passwords a move it said was not a permanent solution. Inthe Long term it said a Way must be found to eliminate reusable passwords on the internet. The internet connects users around the world who Exchange scientific and other information. Individual users connect to the system using passwords that Are supposed to be secret. Passwords were obtained using a Trojan horse program so called because it can enter the main computer for some legitimate purpose but with coding that lets it remain after that purpose is accomplished. The program collects the first 128 keystrokes when someone connects to the internet and the illegal user later dials in and receives that information. A user s first keystrokes generally contain name and password. Worker suspended in Case of 19 kids presidential hello president Clinton greets pupils at Kramer Junior High school in Washington d.c., on thursday. Speaking to the student body the president promised safer and better schools. Don t give up on yourself and Don t give up on your country Clinton told the pupils during his visit. In s Chicago a a caseworker has been sus Pended for not pushing hard enough to get inside an apartment where 19 children were later found to be Liv ing in dickensian squalor. Goy. Jim Edgar said the caseworker who was no identified should not have Given up so easily when she was told twice since september that the people she was seeking did not live in the apartment. She faces a hear ing and could be fired. Caseworkers with the state department of children and family services Are not allowed to Force their Way into Homes. Department procedures Call for them to Alert police if denied entry. If that fails the department and police can ask for a search  on a drug raid entered the two bedroom apartment tuesday. They said that the place was cold and filthy and that some of the children were vying with a dog for scraps of food. But the Mother of four of the children said police threw clothes on the floor and dumped the  s All a Bunch of lies said mayday Melton who was jailed on a charge of child  Mother was jailed on a charge of cruelty to a child. Five other adult relatives of the children three mothers a father and an Uncle were also charged. Department officials said three visits had been made to the House since August but at each visit workers were told they had the wrong House. The children were in state custody. One 4-year-old,who has cerebral palsy and was malnourished bruised burned and bitten was in fair condition at a Hospital. Russian who advertised for wife told to leave . Kansas City to. A a rus Sian scientist who came to the Midwest looking for a wife and citizenship is apparently headed Back Home. . Immigration officials ruled this week that Vladimir Maltinsky must leave the country by March 2, or the immigration and naturalization service will Seeka court order to Deport him. Maltinsky got a six month tourist visa improperly in 1992, officials said. He placed singles ads and came to Kansa City seeking a wife. The government does t give visas toyshop for wives said Ron Sanders ins District director. You d have everybody doing wife shopping while they re hereon  the ins also said Maltinsky s october 1992 marriage to Nancy Thomas is fraudulent. The evidence that led to the rulings includes portions of dozens of letters she has written to the ins since the marriage which was indisputably Rocky. She wrote on dec. 10 yes the marriage has been cursed with problems with economic and emotional and cultural and even some political  at other times one wrote that her Hus band married her Only to get . Citizenship and her Money. Most recently however she said that the marriage had improved and that the couple was attend ing counselling