European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 4, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                              July 2007 stars and stripes Mideast edition Page 11 mexican american teen assaulted with pipe in 06 hate crime commits suicide the associated press Houston As horrific and painful As the past year had been for hat crime survivor David his future seemed Chance to attend College for to devote his life to Public ser vice and to leave behind a troubled the past 15 months of Ritcheson life were focused on recovering physically and emotionally from a brutal attack in which he was beaten unconscious and sodomized with a plastic pole by a Man shouting White Power he leaped to his death in the Gulf of Mexico from an upper deck of a carnival cruise ship on sunday according to several although his family has declined to speak publicly about the the family attorney scheduled a news con Ference for Ritcheson had endured More than two dozen pain Ful surgeries and relied on a colostomy perhaps virtually everyone he met knew who he was and what had happened to him that terrifying night in april but Many who knew him say he appeared to have emerged from that time with a newfound thanks to the anti defamation he had a full scholarship to the College of his like Many he had not yet decided on a career but thought he wanted to help prevent attacks like the one he had in my sense is that he was doing relatively said Martin the regional director for the Southwest Region of the we were very opt it was a rather miraculous or so it Ritcheson rarely Dis cussed his feelings and declined to get counselling after being attacked at the drug fuelled teen party in april a year he testified before con Gress in support of a hate crimes a was beaten and sodomized with a Patio umbrella he also was stomped on and burned with and his at tackers poured bleach on him before he was hospitalized for More than three months and endured some 30 two men were convicted of aggravated sexual assault in the according to the attack was triggered by Ritcheson Drunken pass at another teens 12yearold David Ritcheson Cen Astro worldwide telecommunications wine Einung overseas employment Astro provides telecommunications services we Are seeking satellite communications maintenance personnel with Midas and 31s mos or equivalent skills for work starting late this summer at gig it please Send your resume to Astro at  fax 913 2803 Box 2140 Bethesda Maryland 20827 Fidelity reports theft of files with Bank data by Ron word the associated press Fidelity National information a financial processing said tuesday a worker at one of its subsidiaries stole million consumer records containing credit Bank account and other personal the employee sold the information to an unidentified data Bro the broker then sold it to Sev eral direct marketing but the data was not used in identity theft or other fraudulent Finan Cial officials from Fidelity subsidiary Cert egy Check ser vices said in a conference about million records Sto Len from Cert egy contained Bank account information and contained credit card inform company officials As a result of this apparent the Consumers affected received marketing solicitations from the companies that bought the said Renz pres ident of we believe that is the extent of any damage to the he the company has found no fraudulent use of the an investigation is continuing by the secret service and Pinel Las county sheriffs those agencies didst return phone Mes sages seeking Cert egy has asked a court in Petersburg to get Back All the in formation from the employee and the marketing companies As Well As to Stop its Cert egy officials said they had contacted the data broker and the marketing companies and believed it would be Able to get the data Back and prevent its future the broker and the Compa Nies did not know they were buy ing stolen officials Cert egy will notify All affected Consumers of the theft and has contacted major credit Nichols the whose name was not was he was identified As a senior level database administrator who had worked for the company for seven Nichols characterized him As a rogue and dishonest he said the company will seek civil penalties against the former worker and wants criminal charges filed against the investigation began in May when Cert egy Learned that some of its customers were being solicited by Telephone and it launched an investigation and was unable to detect any breach of its Security it hired a forensic investigator to validate its findings and contacted these Cret Nichols the Federal Agency contacted the marketing companies to ques Tion the source of their information and determined it came from a company owned and operated by the Cert egy warmer tone highlights bus Putin defense talks by Maura Reynolds los Angeles times Maine president Bush accepted a propos Al from russian president Vladimir Putin on monday to involve More european nations in negotiations Over missile defense and to consider Basing a controversial antimissile radar system in Southern two Days of informal talks Between the two presidents at the Bush family Seaside com Pound did not resolve their Central disagreement Over plans to in stall Missil defense facilities in Eastern systems Russia considers a potential threat on its Putin representing a marked expansion Over suggestions he offered in also would include joint Early warning centers in Moscow and Putin said his proposal would make the systems the United states plans to build in the czech Republic and Poland super there would be no need to place any More facilities in eur Putin standing next to Bush above the Rocky Maine Shore such cooperation i believe would result in raising to an entirely new level the Quality of cooperation Between Russia and the United and for All practical Pur this would Lead to a gradual development of strategic partner ship in the area of Bush he just Laid out a i think its very i think its i Nova i think its Bush but As i told i think that the czech Republic and Poland need to be an integral part of the both sides described Putin today visit to walkers the Bush family stately As Friendly and helping the two leaders move beyond the tensions that have hobbled relations in recent