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Section ui herald Tuesday, May 11, 1993 RTC records search sparks FBI "I can't comment on any ongoing investigation." Dick Schussler FBI spokesman 1986 to bar unlawful entry into a person's work computer system and electronic mailbox. This statute covers government and private workers, although there are permissible invasions of ernment computers if the worker is suspected of violating fraud or international security laws. "That was rflore of an employee-supervisor activity," Freeman said. "We only know this did occur. As we understand the wiretap statute, that is for E-Mail interception, which is a crime.

"But with computer files, nobody needs to be authorized to do this because See RTC, page 2 son's WordPerfect files meaning documents created with WordPerfect Corp. software were searched. Shangraw declined to comment and referred a reporter's telephone calls to Freeman. The FBI has already interviewed Pederson. Agents told him they intend to talk to Waechter and others involved in the matter, according to sources familiar with the case who spoke only on condition of anonymity.

"I can't comment on any ongoing investigation," said Dick Schussler, a Denver FBI spokesman. The federal law that prohibits unauthorized wire-tapping was expanded in By RICHARD KEIL The Associated Press WASHINGTON The FBI is investigating whether Sthe search of a whist-leblower's computer records at the Resolution Trust Corp. violated federal privacy laws, officials said. An electronic mail message from a top legal official in the RTC's Denver office directed a technician to "get into" and copy material in the desktop computer of Bruce Pederson, an agency attorney who criticized management policies in testi-mony to Congress last summer. The Associated Press obtained a copy of the E-Mail directive, from assistant general counsel Barbara Shangraw to computer technician John Waechter.

It reads: "I have been requested by D.C. to get into Bruce Pederson's word perfect. Please copy into a directory for me what Bruce has in his word perfect." Anne Freeman, an RTC spokeswoman in Washington, confirmed that Peder CllEtoB stumps for pograms Let the fun begin Pricing seminar set May 19 at MCC CRYSTAL LAKE A seminar titled "Pricing Your Product or Service for Profit" will be presented May 1. The session will be 7-10 p.m. at McHenry County College.

The seminar will be presented by Paul Chamberlain, CPACMA and owner of his own firm. To register, contact the Small Business Development Center at (815) 455-6098. Attorney Horeled speaks at seminar CRYSTAL LAKE Attorney John J. Horejed recently participated in a "General Practice Update" seminar. It was sponsored by the Illinois State Bar Association General Practice Section Council.

Horeled's presentation was titled "Real Estate, Probate and Estate Planning." Horeled maintains a private practice in Crystal Lake. Sara Lee purchases Mark Cross assets CHICAGO Sara Lee Corp. announced Monday it has acquired selected assets of New York-based leather goods company Mark Cross Inc. Mark Cross markets and distributes men's and women's leather accessories, including handbags, business cases and desk sets. Sara Lee already owns Coach-brand leatherwear.

The company also announced the naming of David W. Bryan has president of Aris Isotoner, a division of Sara Lee Corp. Chicago paper adds edition, changes name CHICAGO The South-town Economist is changing its name and adding a Saturday edition. The Pulitzer-owned Chicago newspaper, which serves the south suburbs and Chicago's southwest and southeast also plans morning delivery, a new contemporary design, new sections and a free telephone information service all beginning June 1. The paper's new name will the Daily Southtown, "adopting the shorthand many readers have long used, and dropping the word Economist, which caused some to believe the South-town was a business publication," Publisher Thomas E.

Jackson said. Previously, the Southtown was available on newsstands in the morning and was delivered to homes in the afternoon. From local and wire reports -V'- (' I -CJ. It V' 1 President defends his agenda By TOM RAUM The Associated Press CLEVELAND President Clinton opened a campaign-style push to refocus attention on his economic package Monday. He said he may have tried to tackle too many issues at once but would rather "err on the side of effort." He delivered a no-apologies defense for moving on so many fronts, including tax increases he acknowledged go "beyond "those he foresaw during last year's campaign.

Clinton suggested his domestic-policy initiatives on the economy, health care, overhauling the college loan system and campaign finance and welfare reform are interrelated. "I think most of you want us to do something and I think you want, us to be bold," Clinton said after plunging into a crowd at a downtown shopping center. It was the first stop of a trip designed to regain lost momentum. Later, he told a luncheon with business leaders that "the costs of the status quo are very, very high, even if you don't see them on the ledger sheets. I think we can do more than one thing at one time." Clinton also declined to blame Republicans for seeking to block his programs, charting a more populist course of blaming lobbyists and other entrenched Washington interests instead.

Clinton also sought to turn the spotlight away from his $16.3 billion jobs stimulus package, defeated in the Senate by a GOP filibuster. He said it was only a minor part of an economic program calling for nearly $500 billion in deficit-reducing tax increases and spending cuts over five years. He was headed next" to Chicago. Bonnie Trafelet The Northwest Herald Manager Chris Gerosa, left, stands in front of the store's offerings while Jeremy Trim of Crystal Lake tries the games. FuncoLand opens in Crystal Lake stores in five states.

Pomige said Funco plans to have 110 stores open by the end of the year. Pomije said the company chose to put a store in Crystal Court because it is a large-scale strip mall with a national tenant mix. The store is located next to Rose Records. "There are many homes with children (in Crystal Lake)," Pomije said. "We tend to be attracted toward that type of demographic." But, Pomije said, many FuncoLand customers are adults.

"Fifty percent of our customer base is 18 years and older," Pomije said. See FUNCOLAND, page 2 By JULIE GRAUNKE The Northwest Herald CRYSTAL LAKE Minneapolis-based Funco Inc. has opened its first FuncoLand store in McHenry County. The store, located in the Crystal Court shopping center, sells new and previously played video games and related equipment. FuncoLand also buys used games from consumers for cash or store credit.

President David R. Pomije said the company has found a growing niche in the video game market by selling previously played games at discount prices. "It's a huge demand," Pomije said. "When new games come out, they make a limited supply of them. But there's still a "There are many homes with children (in Crystal Lake).

We tend to be attracted toward that type of demographic." David R. Pomije Funco president demand for the games." "Wi price them very attractively. You can buy it for half price or sell it back to us for half the price. "It really extends the discretionary dollars. Since 1987,, 500 million games have been sold in the U.S.

Our Top 10 sellers are four years old or older." Funco, which started in 1988, has 62 Nuclear fuel rod case goes to appeals court UMW strikes three top coal producers from Attorney General Frank Kelley and environmental group lawyers and transferred the case to the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati. Kelley and the Lake Michigan Federation sued Consumers Power and the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission last week. They want an environmental study done before the temporary storage plan moves ahead.

Kelley "said he was pleased with Bell's decision transfer the case. "I continue to have strong concerns over the unanswered safety questions at the Palisades 'nuclear power plant," he said. Consumers Power spokesman Kelly Farr said the judge's transfer didn't change anything. The ASSOCIATED PRESS GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -A federal judge sent the legal battle over storing spent nuclear fuel on the shores of Lake Michigan to a higher court Monday.

U.S. District Judge Robert Holmes Bell first ruled that he lacked jurisdiction to issue a temporary restraining order against the Consumers Power Co. plan to transfer the fuel rods at its Palisades plant. The transfer of the fuel rods from an indoor storage pool into steel-and-concrete casks began Friday and continued Monday at the South Haven plant. The casks will sit on a concrete pad about 150 yards from Lake Michigan.

Bell later agreed to a request By MARTHA BRYSON HODEL The Associated Press HUNTINGTON, W.Va. -The United Mine Workers launched a selective strike Monday against three top coal producers, all with mines in Illinois. UMW President Richard Trumka said he hoped the action would them to their senses" after a 60-day contract extension failed to lead to a new pact for 60,000 miners in six states in Appalachia and the Midwest. The union, whose miners have worked without a contract since May 3, is striking No. 3 U.S.

producer AMAX Coal Zeigler Coal Co. and Arch beginning with the late afternoon shift, Trumka said in a telephone interview. Indianapolis-based AMAX spokesman Kevin Feeney said he believed the action against his company would involve only the Wabash mine in Mount Car-mel, 111., which last year pro- duced 3 million tons of coal. St. Louis-based Arch Mineral spokesman Blair Gardner declined immediate comment.

In Springfield, 111. UMW District 12 president Joe Angleton said pickets were expected to go up at mines where employees had undergone strike training. Those, he said, include all Zeigler's Old Ben Coal Co. Mine No. 24 in Benton and Arch Minerals Kathleen mine near Cutler in Perry County.

AP photo United Mine Workers President Richard Trumka announces a strike against three top coal producers..