European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 14, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes . Thursday july 14,1994 computer porn leaves nuclear lab red faced Livermore Calif. A chagrined officials who discovered a pornographic picture gallery in com outer at one of the nations three nuclear weapons laboratories say its hard to prevent that kind of misuse of technology. An employee at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory was leave while officials investigate How More than 1,000 pornographic images were smuggled into lab computers a in the Brand new information superhighway there really is no Highway patrol Quot lab spokesman Jeff Gar Burson said tuesday a a we All hav amp a lot to learn about How to control wrongdoing and even How to define it a the computers were shut Down after an investigation by the los Angeles times uncovered software piracy in the internet which links thousands of computer networks. It originally was designed to connect computers at universities and government research labs but is now used by millions of people. But it also is abused by a a pirates who traffic in illegal or illegally obtained electronic information. The pirates can tap into computers from anywhere in the worlds. And tracing them is difficult. A we Are currently tracking Over 1,600 pirate Sites on the internet in a joint investigation with the Fri a said Peter Beruk of the software publishers association which represents major software manufacturers. A it is a very serious and costly problem a. Garbe sort said that although the incident was serious it involved Only an unclassified computer. Computers used for classified work such As nuclear weapons design Are not connected to networks such As internet he said. Garberson said the investigation will focus on How to prevent a recurrence. The Laboratory is in Livermore about 25 Miles cast of the san Francisco Bay area. Tampa Fla. Apr Mary Stiles says Vears of abuse at the pincer like hands of her deformed husband left her no Choice she had to hire a hit Ritan to kill the sideshow performer known As a the lobster a a it a a terrible tragedy to have a person lose their life especially by another a Stiles explained tuesday during a break in her murder for hire trial a but do you to Ike a Chance of letting things go and maybe losing your whole family he was capable of that. A you marry and take your vows for belter or for worse a said Stiles who still wears her wedding Ting. A but How much does the worse have to of Quot in his opening statement defense lawyer Arnold Levine portrayed Grady Stiles or. As an alcoholic brute who despite stunted legs and that left him in a wheelchair pummelled his wife and family with his two fingered hands head butted them and repeatedly threatened to kill them. Levine said Mary Stiles was Only defending herself in late 1992 when she paid a neighbor $1,500 to shoot the 55-year-old carnival Freak in the head As he watched television in their Gibsonton Mobile Home. A she honestly believed she had no other alternative but to participate in this terrible act Quot Levine said. A she reasonably believed she and her family members were in imminent danger. Of bodily harm or death.�?�. Assistant slate attorney Ron Hanes countered that there were of her ways Mary Stiles could have stopped the abuse. A look at the alternatives she had. Look at the choices she made Quot Hanes said. A reasonable no. Murder Mary Stiles 56, could get life in prison if convicted. Her son Harry Glenn Newman 19, will be tried later on the same murder and conspiracy charges. He plans a similar defense. A a the hit Man Christopher Wyant 18, was convicted of murder and conspiracy and sentenced to 27 years in prison. A. A Mary Stiles accused of hiring a hit fan to kill her deformed husband listens to opening arguments tuesday at her trial in Tampa Fla. Levine said the entire family including two children born with the lobster claw syndrome. Were held hostage by Grady Stiles threats. A a in spite of his deformities he was a powerful powerful Man a Levine said. A when he was drunk and wanted to take it out on you a he Levine noted that Grady Stiles was convicted of murder in new York in 1978 for shooting one of h is Daub terms boyfriends and was put on probation. When Mary Stiles pleaded for a divorce Levine said Stiles told her a a in la kill you and ill get away with it. In be killed before and i got away Writh a obviously the idea of divorce was not a realistic alternative a Levine said. Drop anti abortion Plank Wilson tells gop by the Washington Post California gov. Pete Wilson made a plea tuesday for republicans to abandon their anti abortion Plank at the 1996 National convention. Wilson said keeping government out of Peoples was consistent with conservative principles. Wilson who faces a Tough re election fight in the fall against democratic state treasurer Kathleen Brown became the second big state Republican governor in two Days to say the republicans would be better off without any platform language on abortion. On Mon Day new jerseys Republican gov Christie Whitman told the los Angeles times that abortion was a personal Issue and should not be included in a political party platform. The comments by the two prominent governors suggest the republicans could face a divisive Battle in 1996 Over the abortion Issue. Many religious conservatives whose Power in some state Republican parties is growing favor no change in the party a strict anti abortion Plank and have signalled their readiness to fight hard to preserve it in 1996.Iowa s state Flag marred a a. R. A a by ragged Edge from past from the associated press Des Moines Iowa a its been flying proudly Over Iowa a state buildings for More than 70 years a but done to Call it the state Flag. For the moment its just a Nice Pennant because of an oversight by a past speaker of the state House. In 1921, the legislature spurred by complaints that soldiers in world War i did no to have a state Flag to wave filled the void by passing a Bill that was promptly signed by gov. Nathan e. Kendall. Researchers recently found the original Bill while digging through the archives for background on the Flag. And they discovered a crucial omission a the signature of the House speaker. Bills must be signed by the speaker and the Senate president before the governor signs them into Law. Current speaker Harold Vanmaanen took Steps tuesday to rectify the problem directing Bill drafters to come up with a new Richard ruling stands Chicago a the Illinois supreme court refused to reconsider its decision awarding custody of a 3vz-Ycar-Oid boy to his biological father a ruling that would remove the youngster from the Only parents he has known. The adoptive parents should by now have Given up the child known As baby Richard the court said tuesday. A / a they will have to live with their pain and the knowledge that they wrongfully deprived a father of his child past the child s third birthday a wrote Justice James d. Heiple. The court ruled last month that the adoption of the child was illegal because the biological father Otakar Kirchner was told his baby had been born dead. Kirchner said he began trying to get his son Back As soon As he Learned the child was alive less than three months after the birth.2 killed in prison attack Enfield Conn. A club wielding convicts wearing makeshift hoods attacked other inmates during a Melee in a prison Yard that left two prisoners dead and at least six others injured. Two of the injured were in critical condition. Two guards also suffered minor injuries tuesday during the fighting in the recreation area of the medium Security Carl Robinson correctional 200 of the prisons 1,600 inmates were in the Yard when some prisoners apparently fashioned hoods from their to shirts and ceased Down others with Sticks and makeshift clubs. It took two hours to Force All the inmates Back into their rooms at the dormitory style prison. The dead were identified As Gordon Silas 26, who was serving vhf years for Selling drugs and Richard Mann 28, Yho was sentenced to 18 months for failing to appear in slain after hitting girl Miami a a Man was beaten by a neighbourhood mob and shot to death after he hit an la year old girl with his car and stopped to Check on her police said Charles Bell 44, slammed on his brakes to try to avoid the girl when she darted in front of his car tuesday night police said but the car hit the girl and sent her flying. 1 the girl was not seriously injured. When Bell got out of his car to Check on her the mob attacked him and killed him police and witnesses said a. Witness Lakisha Hill said that a band of Young men was heading to a fight and that the girl was running behind the group to watch when she darted in front of Belles car. The mob fled after Bell was beaten and shot police said. No arrests had been made by Early wednesday. The girl identified by witnesses As Victoria Williams was treated at Jackson memorial Hospital and copter crash kills 4 shelter Cove Calif. A a coast guard helicopter searching in fog for a stranded fishing boat crashed into a rugged Hillside tuesday killing All four Crew members aboard. The last radio Contact with the Hh-65 Dolphin helicopter was about 5 a.m., shortly after the Crew said it was descending through the fog said a Petty officer Darrell Wilson. The two people on the fishing vessel Hope made it to Shore unharmed later in the morning. The cause of the helicopter crash was under 1 investigation
