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Tucson, Friday, November 4, 1988 Page Two Section A Arizona fluiln Slur NEWS AT A GLANCE ACCENT WASHINGTON METROSTATE it N'- 1 i in to scratch. The Arizona Theatre 7 Hispanics and the economy. His-panics have gained the least from the economic recovery of the past five years, according to a research group that studies government spending on programs. Page 6A. Meat plant inspections.

Meat processing plants that have good records would be inspected less frequently under an Agriculture Department proposal, which is criticized by consumer and labor groups. Page 7A. Company opens its season with a sexy, sensual, delicately balanced production of "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof." Theater critic M. Scot Skinner says the production does justice to the Tennessee Williams play. Page 6B.

Taj Mahal in Tucson. This new Indian restaurant is a welcome addition to the dining scene, says the Star's Colette M. Bancroft. The food is well-prepared, delicious and the only flaw is sometimes less-than-perfect service. Page 8B.

1 J' f4 4 'Winn tmmf Rewards offered. Rewards totaling $26,000 are offered for tips leading to the indictment of a group claiming responsibility for vandalizing a Flagstaff ski resort. Page IB. Immigration results. The effects of the 1 986 reform of immigration law are disputed at a civil rights hearing in Tucson, with the panel being told of cases of employment discrimination and of efforts to deter such incidents.

Page IB. DeGreen vs. DeConcini. Challenger Keith DeGreen says his advertisements attacking U.S. Sen.

Dennis DeConicini are backed up by facts. Gov. Rose Mof-ford comes to DeConcini's defense, calling him "an honorable man." Page IB. Pot busts. Federal agents confiscate a total of 5,134 pounds of marijuana after seizing two vans in separate incidents on Interstate 10.

Page IB. And the winner is. Students across the nation and in Arizona choose Bush over Dukakis in mock elections. Arizona students soundly defeat the official English proposition. Page 3B.

ELECTION '88 NATION "Hero" was fugitive. The New York City man hailed as a hero for shooting two muggers was a fugitive who had pleaded guilty to selling crack, officials say. Page 4A. It's the law. The older son of a Milwaukee woman rides the bus to school, while her 5-year-old must hoof it to the same school.

Page 15A. Bush and the gender gap. Political analysts say George Bush won the support of males by projecting an image of strength and depicting Michael Dukakis as soft on crime and defense. Page 9A. The stump.

Democratic presidential nominee Michael Dukakis, in Philadelphia appearances, accuses Republican opponent George Bush of befriending drug kingpins, and outlines his plan to make schools drug-free in the next decade. Page 8A. The Associated Press British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, on a three-day visit to Poland, is buoying the spirits of Solidarity supporters, as well as meeting with the communist nation's top leaders. Page 14A. 1988 AP file photo Cadet Timothy Shepard, 25, dies six weeks after he and two dozen other trainees became ill due to intense exercise at a Massachusetts police academy.

His family's lawyer wants the instructors charged with manslaughter. Page 16A. SPORTS WORLD MONEY an i if Intrusion charges. Pakistan reports downing an intruding Afghan warplane inside its borders, and Afghanistan says Pakistani jet fighters downed two aircraft inside Afghanistan. Page 14A.

mm- COMMENT Cochran in front. Russ Cochran, who has never won on the PGA Tour, shoots a 65 to take the first-round lead at the Tucson Open golf tournament. Page 1C. Pac-10 scramble. Unlike last year' when the UA was the pick to win the conference, the Pac-10 basketball media day participants agree there is no favorite this season.

Page 1C. Playoff fever. Canyon del Oro High School can clinch a berth in the state football playoffs tonight with a win over Buena. Page 1C. You can take it with you.

Star outdoor writer Pete Cowgill says it is a basic right of all campers to carry all the unnecessary junk in the back of a truck that you know you will never need or use. Page 7C. pi 1 1 AlphaGraphics in Moscow. Two Soviet officials, Tucson's AlphaGraphics and a Canadian firm announce the completion of plans for the opening of two franchised print shops in Moscow. Page 9C.

Loadmaster bankrupt. Loadmaster Systems of Tucson files for bankruptcy. Unfulfilled research projections is one of the causes for the firm's downfall, a spokesman says. Page 9C. Guadalajara bound.

The government-run rail service, as part of its nationwide upgrading of the train adds a third daily departure from No-gales to Mexico's interior. Page 9C. Delicate balance. It will take a conscientious county commission and a cooperative cave operator to lure endangered bats back to Colossal Cave. The future of area saguaros is affected.

Page 18A. Duke's pluses. Columnist George F. Will presents a case for Michael Dukakis as president. Page 19A.

The Associated Press Schwarzenegger's comments brought applause and screams. But the audience became restless after Bush took the mike. Page 8A. The Terminator Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger joins George Bush in Republican presidential campaigning through Ohio and Illinois. Quake kills 1 in C.

America; 2nd tremor hits Puerto Rico KDTU would remain a family-oriented station with many off-network reruns, but more contemporary movies some with violence or sexual overtones would be offered, Sullivan said. His company has not decided whether it would bring in a new management team, and it has not determined what size staff KDTU would have, Sullivan said. He added that those decisions would probably be made within six weeks. "We don't anticipate any wholesale changes," Sullivan said. Sullivan said he did not expect McKinnon Broadcasting to accept the terms and exercise its option, because McKinnon has not shown recent interest in KDTU.

Robert Nordmeyer, general manager of the station since it began broadcasting on Dec. 31, 1984, referred questions to the diocese and Clear Channel Television. KDTU's 40 full-time and two part-time employees learned yesterday that they can keep their jobs Last week, when Bishop Manuel Moreno announced in a letter that the station would go off the air on Nov. 1 because of financial difficulties, the employees were told that they would lose their positions in two weeks. "Overall, the mood is one of relief and happiness," said Rudy Casillas, the station's production manager.

However, many of the employees have not gotten over the shock of last week's announcement and may continue to seek other jobs, he said. Casillas said KDTU is a "bare-bones" operation that probably would not be pared down much, if at all. "I don't see a lot of fat at the station," he added. Lindsay Schnebly, KDTU's creative director, said: "I'm happy it's turned around. It was very stressful." Schnebly said he thought that it would be a good move by Clear Channel Television to retain the KDTU employees, because they are familiar with the operation.

KDTU was the first full-power commercial station in the United States to be owned by a Catholic diocese. The diocese has been trying to sell KDTU for more than a year. In recent years, KDTU drastically strained the diocese's general budget, leading to layoffs of more than 70 employees of the station and of the diocesan offices. This year's operating budget for KDTU is about $1.8 million. Allison said the station's revenues have never matched operating expenses on a year-to-year basis and that the debt incurred from start-up costs was a heavy burden the diocese no longer wanted to bear.

Nordmeyer said in a 1984 Arizona Daily Star article that the studio-office building at 1855 N. Sixth Ave. and its equipment cost nearly $3 million. He also said at the time that the diocese had a $3.2 million line of credit that would be converted into a loan. Clear Channel Television would probably not change the station's call letters, Sullivan said.

The "DTU" in KDTU stands for the Diocese of Tucson. KDTU-TV Continued from Page One refusal and could become KDTU's potential owner by accepting the same terms within 30 days. To acquire the option, McKinnon agreed in the early 1980s to stop competing with the diocese for the broadcasting license from the Federal Communications Commission. Jim Gillece, the vice president of finance at McKinnon, said yesterday that his company was waiting to see the contract and expected to make a decision within several days. The diocese will operate the station until the FCC approves a sale, which would probably be 30 to 40 days after the buyer is determined, Beesemyer said.

KDTU's programming will not be interrupted during the transfer of ownership, diocesan spokesman Fred Allison said during the annou-cement of the sale. SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) Terrified residents of earthquake-scarred Central America and southern Mexico ran into the streets yesterday when a strong temblor rattled the region. One death and minor damage were reported. Later yesterday, a strong earthquake shook buildings and sent people into the streets in Puerto Rico, but an official said there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries in the Caribbean island. The Central American quake was felt at 8:47 a.m.

In Mexico, residents of the southern town of Tapachula thought the local volcano was erupting. In San Salvador, where a 1986 earthquake killed 1,500 and injured 20,000, thousands of people took to the streets in panic. Felt in Guatemala The quake also was felt in Guatemala, where the National Emergency Committee went on alert, and to a lesser extent in Honduras and Nicaragua. A 1972 earthquake killed 10,000 people in Nicaragua and caused extensive damage to Managua, the capital. Readings on the tremor varied.

The U.S. Geological Survey in Golden, said it measured 6 on the Richter scale. The Institute of Seismology at the University of Costa Rica said it measured 6.5. Worker buried alive An earthquake with a magnitude of 6 is capable of doing serious damage. The Richter scale is an open-ended gauge of energy released by an earthquake as measured by ground motion recorded on a seismograph.

In Guatemala City, the Guatemalan capital, a municipal worker dig- ging a ditch was buried alive when the quake dislodged a pile of earth, police said. The man was identified as Jesus Pitan, 50. Maj. Humberto Fuentes Soria of Guatemala's National Emergency Committee said the temblor damaged 18 homes in the western provinces of Totonicapan and Chimal-tenango. He said walls cracked in several public buildings in western provinces.

In Puerto Rico, the 3:42 p.m. quake measured 5.7 on the Richter scale, said William MacCann, director of the University of Puerto Rico's Seismological Network. An aftershock measuring 4 followed, he said. He said the earthquake was the strongest in Puerto Rico since 1979, when a temblor of 5.9 shook the island. Epicenter in Atlantic He said the quake's epicenter was in the Atlantic Ocean in the extreme northwestern port city of Aguadilla, 80 miles west of San Juan.

But the tremor was felt throughout the inland, which is 100 miles long and 35 miles wide. The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake in Puerto Rico measured 5.5 on the Richter scale. The quake in Central America and southern Mexico was centered in the Pacific Ocean about 60 miles off El Salvador, the Geological Survey said, and about 70 miles south and east of Guatemala City. The ground shook for at least 30 seconds in the Salvadoran capital of San Salvador, about 25 miles from the coast, and people fled high-rise buildings.

At the international airport, travelers braced themselves or fled for the exits amid cries of "Oh, my God. It's an earthquake." Virus did not completely understand how the network worked, it quickly copied itself thousands of times from machine to machine. Computer experts who disassembled the program said that it was written with remarkable skill and that it exploited three security flaws in the Arpanet network. The virus' design included a program designed to steal passwords, then masquerade as a legitimate user to copy itself to a remote machine. Computer security experts said the episode illustrated the vulnerability of computer systems and that incidents like this could be expected to happen repeatedly if awareness about computer security risks was not heightened.

"This was an accident waiting to happen. We deserved it," said Geoffrey Goodfellow, president of Anterior Technology Inc. and an expert on computer communications. "We needed something like this to bring us to our senses. We have not been paying much attention to protecting ourselves." Peter Neumann, a computer security expert at SRI International Inc.

in Menlo Park, said: "Thus far the disasters we have known have been relatively minor. The potential for rather extraordinary destruction is rather substantial." experiment went awry because of a small programming mistake that caused the virus to multiply around the military network hundreds of times faster than had been planned. The caller, who refused to identify himself or the programmer, said the student realized his error shortly after letting the program loose and that he was now terrified of the consequences. A spokesman at the Pentagon's Defense Communications Agency, which has set up an emergency center to deal with the problem, said the caller's story was a "plausible explanation of the events." He said corrections to the security flaws exploited by the virus are now being developed. As the virus spread Wednesday night, computer experts began a struggle to eradicate the invader.

The Arpanet data communications network was established in 1969 and is designed to permit computer researchers to share electronic messages, programs and data such as project information, budget projections and research results. In 1983 the network was split and a second network, called Milnet, was reserved for higher-security military communications. But Milnet is thought not to handle the most classified military information, including data related to the control of nuclear weapons. The Arpanet and Milnet networks are connected to hundreds of civilian networks that link computers around the globe. There were reports of the virus at hundreds of locations on both coasts, including computers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, the Naval Research Laboratory in Maryland and the University of Maryland.

Also affected were computers at NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Lawrence Li-vermore Laboratories; Stanford University; SRI International in Menlo Park, the University of California's Berkeley and San Diego campuses; and the Naval Ocean Systems Command in San Diego. A spokesman at the Naval Ocean Systems Command said that its computer systems had been attacked Wednesday evening and that the virus had disabled many of the systems by overloading them. He said computer programs at the facility were still working on the problem more than 19 hours after the original incident. The unidentified caller said the Arpanet virus was intended simply to "live" secretly in the Arpanet network by slowly copying itself from computer to computer. However, because the designer Continued from Page One instructions to a computer, that is deliberately planted on a diskette meant to be used with the computer or introduced when the computer is communicating over telephone lines or data networks with other computers.

The programs can copy themselves into the computer's master software, or operating system, usually without calling any attention to themselves. From there, the program can be passed to additional computers. Depending upon the intent of the software's creator, the program might cause a provocative but otherwise harmless message to appear on the computer's screen, or it could destroy data in the computer's memory. The virus program was apparently the result of an experiment by a computer science graduate student trying to sneak what he thought was a harmless virus into the Arpanet computer network. The network is used by universities, military contractors and the Pentagon.

A man who said he was an associate of the student said in a telephone call to The New York Times that the CORRECTION The sorority has been given space at the show, but it is a commercial venture under the name Unique A story in yesterday's Accent section incorrectly said that an arts and crafts show this weekend at Gridley School, 350 S. Harrison Road, is a benefit for Phi Beta Psi sorority. FBI Pre Arizona Ua'tlri SJar STAR PUBLISHING CO. P.O. Box 26807 Tucson, Arizona 85726 Michael E.

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Postmaster: Send address changes to Tucson Newsoaoers PO Box 26887. Tucson. AZ 85726-6887 the office, and from my day-to-day management responsibilities." Perez contends that Richard Schwein, the agent in charge of the El Paso office, called a meeting after the verdict and forbade bureau employees from talking about the discrimination case. Perez also says that on the same day, Schwein called in a Hispanic agent who had talked to reporters about the case and intimidated him by saying Schwein could have taken administrative action against him. Schwein said yesterday that some of Perez's allegations were untrue and some were the result of misunderstandings.

"He (Perez) carries out the day-to-day operations in this office and everyone in this office reports to him except me," Schwein said. Schwein said that at the meeting he told agents, "This is what the judge found and this is what we have to deal with." He said he told agents it would be inappropriate to comment publicly about the case because the second half of the trial, concerning damages, had not yet started. Schwein said he cautioned the agent who talked to reporters that he should have made it clear he was speaking as a citizen and not as a representative of the FBI. He said be feels more hurt than anger at Perez's allegations. "I resent having my integrity challenged.

I don't like falsehoods and I consider these falsehoods," he said, adding that he and Perez "will continue to work together." Perez declined to comment yesterday. Fernando Mata, an agent in the FBI's Miami, office, said in an affidavit that he believes the FBI is trying to fire him or force him to quit under the pretext of presenting him as a risk to national security. Mata, who testified during the trial that he worked in the FBI's foreign counterintelligence unit, said he has been forced to undergo long interrogations since the trial. He said in the affidavit that he needs psychiatric help for "the stress and mental anguish that I feel as a direct result of my participation in this litigation and the unfounded allegations that the FBI is making against me." Continued from Page One and didn't recognize them for their successes. Asked about the allegations of retaliation, FBI spokesman Gregory Jones said.

"Our response is basically any intimidation or retaliation would be illegal and intolerable and would result in an FBI inquiry." The discrimination suit was filed in January 1987 by Bernardo "Matt" Perez, the No. 2 agent in the bureau's El Paso office. In an affidavit filed yesterday, Perez contends that since Bunton's verdict was announced. "I have been purposely divorced from many of the administrative operations of Delivery problems Can us at 573-4511 for newsoaoer replacement service, available 6 30 a m. to a m.

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