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Show WORLD A4 SATURDAY. THE DAILY HERALD (www.HaritTheHerald.com) MAY 6. 2000 V.- - ' w la ill mm (ig(MDs im i Mi M Observers: Peru not ready By BRUCE US. election LIMA, Peru (AP) observers said Friday that President Alberto Fujimori's government has failed to take minimum steps to ensure a fair and open runoff vote for president on May 28. The consequence is that the process at this moment continues to fall well 6hort of the standards that are required," Patrick Merloe, head of the joint mission of the National Democratic Institute and CarterjCenter, said Friday. "One thihglhatcriticatls that" the electoral system, particularly the counting of the votes, has to be open to verification because the population of this country has no confidence in the electoral organi' zation," he said. Polls show Fujimori and economist Alejandro Toledo in a dead heat in the runoff race after a campaign and April 9 vote riddled with irregularities and allegations of government The "love bug" that crippled computer systems around the world showed up again Friday cn'. ...... ' T 7 Anti-viru- s software out rushed makers updates to fight the varia tions, and the FBI expanded its criminal investigation of an out-break some experts say 4 could cause up to $10 billion in damage. As many as seven new struck on variations a day after the Friday, original raced across at least 20 countries, overwhelming computer net- works and destroying important computer files. The original bug arrives labeled as an "ILOVEYOir and carries an attachment called. Getting no - Puerto Rico protests Puerto Rico (AP) College campuses closed, mili- tants protested and the National Guard shielded U.S. installations and public utilities Friday following a federal raid that dislodged 216 protesters from the Navy's ; bombing range on Vieques Island. On Vieques, an -i-- . Vcloaked in new disguises, pretending to be such joke things as an or a receipt for a Mother's Day gift. first-roun- d abuses and fraud. MEYERSON AP Business Writer SAN JUAN, "LOVELETTER." version One - new love: Scott Elliot, Pennsylvania's Office of Administration Communications director, polices card has been charged $326.92 for a Mother's security business. Some organizations ' an example of the disruption, CERT projected the - virus eost a company with 12 computers a total of about $30,000 in lost work time and recovery. The FBI and authori- ties in the Philippines were investigating leads suggesting the virus originated in Manila, including clues embedded in the virus' program code and information from an Network computer of sion special," urging the reader to click on an attachment to print the invoice. Opening the attachments releases the bug. This will be the most damaging virus as well as "the most widespread virus or Internet worm that we've ever seen," said ' Gene Hodges, president of the McAfee security divi- - .r PAUL VATHISThe . . arrives as confirmation Day "diamond anti-Nav- y activist claimed that seven people were still hiding on the range. The Navy said it knew of no holdouts and was planning to rapidly resume training a year after its ' Atlantic fleet bombing range was occupied. Protests against the raid also were announced on the U.S. mainland. In downtown Philadelphia, about 100 people protesting outside a Navy recruiting office traffic. snarled evening rush-hou- r - -- - that the recipient's credit Associates, . i I a suffered heavy damage, as the virus destroyed files storing crucial information, pictures and video. Jeff Carpenter at the CERT Coordination Center, a government-chartered computer emerat ; Carnegie team gency Mellon University in Pittsburgh, said the bug infected about 600,000 computers worldwide. As Internet service provider. ' . ;f "It could be a lead or a , night, masquerading as a joke passed on by an official, who spoke on con- of anonymity. dition "We're not at a point where we are able to definitively say what the origin was." The FBI expanded its probe to include the new variations. ; Agency spokesman Steve Berry would not speculate whether ' the new bugs were the product of copycats or the original author. The first variation began whipping across red herring," said one FBI the Associated Press ennail in his office. acquaintance with an attachment labeled "Very .: Funny." Although it was spreading with the same lightning speed as the original, computer security firms reported far less damage among their customers -. systems by Thursday possibly ,due to software inoculations deployed on Thursday arid a more wary attitude-amoncomputer users who were caught off guard by the first attack. 10 dead after clash Athlete's suicide shocks Columbine community KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) Ugandan and Rwandan troops clashed in Congo on Friday, killing at least 10 civilians and wounding 100 in fighting that drew sharp criticism from the United Nations. The Ugandan forces sprayed the northern city of Kisangani ' with mortars and fire, then attacked Rwandan positions at the main airport at Bangoka,: said Lt. Col. Akram U.N. Hossain, head of a monitoring team in Kisangani. anti-aircra- A LITTLETON, Colo. (AP) Columbine High basketball star who witnessed last year's bloodbath losing one of his best friends hanged himself in his as CD, set to replay cona garage tinuously, blared a song with the words: "I'm too depressed to go on." It was the second suicide among friends or relatives of the Columbine High victims, ing the community two weeks after the first anniversary of trie ft four-ma- . n Aid workers in telephone communication with Kisangani from eastern Congo said a building hous- ing Doctors Without Borders, an international humanitarian aid group, took a direct hit and was in flames, as was the local electric massacre. company. Online sex in focus ATLANTA (AP) Online sex addiction is a growing epidemic that is tearing partners apart and creating a dangerous new compulsion affecting everyone from house- wives to gay men and corporate executives, psychologists said , Friday. The Internet's anonymous and instant gratification is surprisingly appealing to women, who prefer the interaction in sex chat rooms to leering at pornographic pic- San Jose, Calif. He told psychologists that cybersex is changing the definition of sexual compulsion "like crack cocaine changed the field of substance abuse. ' Investigation empty The WASHINGTON (AP) FBI investigated an allegation T Al mat Israeli spies nau peneLrtweu J the White House and other government telephone systems, but more than a year of extensive work found no evidence of any breach, two senior federal law enforcement officials said Friday. The .two officials, who requested anonymity, said the FBI had identified no one to arrest during its investigation. One said the investigation is now inactive. There was extensive investigation, and there are just no facts to support the allegation," one of the officials said. This official said the investigation had "100 percent complete support from the Justice Department and every other government agency" that would be needed to check such an allegation. 1 T 1 1 . A the A teen-ager- 's life. cautioned against automatically linking Barnes' death to the Columbine s shootings, noting that Grief counselors WASHINGTON (AP) Two U.S. and two German drug com- panies agreed to plead guilty and teen-ager- world. live in a pressure-cooke- r cause Suicide is the of death for people ages 15 to 24. "I just didn't believe it. It was horrible. It made me mad. Mad at Greg," said Brian Deidel, a teammate and childhood friend. "He had so much going for him. He didn't need to do that to everybody who knows him, who loves him." A school source who spoke on condition of anonymity also told pay $33 million in fines for partic- third-leadin- g - who Greg Barnes, a 1 averaged 26.2 points a game as a junior last season and had attracted attention from Harvard, Notre Dame and other universities, hanged himself Thursday morning, said neighbor Leonard Purer. "His father found him hanging," said Purer, who has known the family for nine years. "I do not know if Columbine caused this, but I do know he was upset by it. All the students were upset by it." "Adam's Song," by the group Blink 182, was playing when his parents found the body, said teammate Dave Mitchell. The lyrics include the phrases "I never thought I'd die alone" and "I'm too depressed to go on. You'll -- tures, experts said during a seminar on cybersex at a conference of the National Council on Sexual Addiction and Compulsivity. "The Internet is revolutionizing sexuality," said Al Cooper, clinical director of a sexuality clinic in JIM be sorry when I'm gone." Friends were mystified, saying there were no signs of turmoil in The Associated that Press Barnes hanged himself." School district spokesman Rick Kaufman confirmed the death but declined to give details. The sheriffs office and tha Jefferson coroner County declined to provide additional details. The news was devastating for students and staff at Columbine. "It's a somber mood at Columbine School," High Kaufman said. Companies plead guilty to vitamin price- - fixing ii lMl ' lllllllll.ini The Associated Press Another tragedy: Greg Barnes, of Columbine High School, hanged himself in his garage.., On April 20, 1999, two teen- age boys killed 12 fellow Columbine students and a teacher and wounded 23 people before committing suicide in the worst school shooting rampage in U.S. history. Barnes was in a science room when the gunmen opened fire. He told Sports Illustrated he saw teacher Dave Sanders "take two shots, right in front of me" as he watched the rampage through a window in the door. Barnes was also a good friend of victim Matt Kechter. ipating in a conspiracy to fix the price of vitamins sold worldwide, the Justice Department said. In criminal cases filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Dallas, the department charged that Nepera Inc., based in Harriman, N.Y., and Reilly Industries Inc. of Indianapolis conspired with others to raise and fix the price and control the supply of vitamin B3, also known as niacin. Two Nepera executives also pleaded guilty in separate cases for their roles and agreed to pay fines and serve prison terms. The German company Degussa-Hul- s AG was charged separately in the vitamin B3 conspiracy. In a sixth case, Merck KgaA, also based in Germany, was accused of a plot to similarly fix the price and control supplies of vitamin C. With Friday's cases, the Justice Department's Antitrust Division will have collected more than $758 million from 24 prosecutions against participants in Rebels put UN force under siege UNITED NATIONS (AP) Sierra Leone's rebels were holding an estimated 300 U.N. hostages Friday after seizing a contingent of troops along with their armored vehicles in blow to U.N. peacekeeping efforts in Africa. surveillance Helicopter showed rebels manning some of the 13 armored personnel carriemblazoned with the U.N. ers on the side that were comlogo mandeered over the past two Zambian days from the U.N. battalion, spokesman Fred Eckhard said. Eckhard said he couldn't confirm if the rebels of the Revolutionary United Front were using the captured U.N. vehicles to head toward Freetown, the capital, or if they were remaining in the interior of the country, where they were spotted. The seizures capped a week of by daily U.N. hostage-takin208-ma- n g RUF rebels, who were known during Sierra Leone's bloody civil war for their brutal attacks on civilians that left thousands dead and tens of thousands more with their arms and legs hacked off. Among the first detained were six U.N. civilians a four-maU.N. helicopter crew and two paswho were released sengers n Friday from Kailahun in the east. Liberian President Charles Taylor, a longtime ally of rebel leader Foday Sankoh, interceded with Sankoh to call for their release. There was no discussion yet whether the United Nations would evacuate any of its peacekeeping force or its civilian staff in. Freetown. Negotiations were instead focusing on sending in reinforcements and rounding up regional political pressure on Sankoh. Secretary-Genera- l Kofi Annan warned week's that this haj 8,700-stron- g attacks could imperil U.N. peacekeeping on the continent in the same way that the West shied away from African intervention after 18 Americans were killed in a botched U.S. raid in Somalia in 1993. Of greatest concern is the new U.N. observer mission for the Congo, where questions were raised about the deployment after clashes Friday between Rwandan and Ugandan troops. U.S. Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, who was in the Congolese capital Kinshasa on Friday with a delegation of Security Council ambassadors, said "the situation in Sierra Leone is a lot more serious than the one here." The U.N. mission for Sierra Leone was dispatched beginning in December to oversee the peace agreement that ended a brutal civil war that left the eight-yea- r country in ruins. u. international vitamin cartels. "We will continue to vigorously pursue convictions and significant sentences against corporations and businesses who violate U.S. antitrust laws to the detriment of American consumers," said Joel Klein, assistant attorney general for the antitrust division. Justice Department officials say the vitamin conspiracy lasted. from January 1990 to February 1999 and affected the price of vitamins commonly used as nutritional supplements or to enrich human food, such as milk and bread, as well as in animal feed. In the conspiracy, the European and U.S. companies agreed to increase and maintain prices and to limit supplies of the vitamins A, B2, B3, B5, C and E. Merck will pay a $14 million fine for its role in vitamin C price fixing. In the B3 conspiracy, Degussa-Hul- s will pay a fine of $13 million, Nepera of $4 million and Reilly Industries of $2 million. |
