Intelligence agency virus used against Iraqi air defense prior to Gulf War
U S News and World Report cites two unnamed officials that the NSA designed a virus to disable a Baghdad mainframe and erased screen data when Iraqi technicians opened a window. The operation allegedly began in Amman by swapping a microchip in a printer bound for a Baghdad facility. The report accompanies a book on the Persian Gulf War.
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US. News and World Report
National Security Agency
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Jordan
Baghdad
Classified Comics Editorial and Local Lottery Notes
Classifieds and comics brief the Saturday edition with editorial and local lottery results highlights. Obituary notices and sports brief are listed among weekend items for reader reference.
Military plans genetic ID file
The Defense Department announced a plan to collect blood and oral swabs from all armed service members to form a genetic reference repository. Samples will be stored to provide unique genetic identification of personnel if needed, potentially eliminating unknown soldiers in future wars.
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Washington
Defense Department
Assembly chief weighs ban on speaking fees for lawmakers
Albany The new speaker Saul Weprin weighs an ethics package that could ban speaking fees, aiming to curb Cuomo income from honoraria. Cuomo reported 129500 in honoraria for 1990, while a late budget reform proposal seeks to dock legislators pay when budgets run late.
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Albany
Mario Cuomo
State Assembly
Cuomo
Saul Weprin
New York Daily News
Kennedy Won't See JFK Movie Despite Public Release Hope
Senator Edward M. Kennedy said he will not view Oliver Stone's JFK due to the traumatic impact of detailing his brother President Kennedy's assassination. He urged releasing all killing documents, noting the distress of the portrayal and autopsy reenactment.
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Washington
Edward M. Kennedy
Oliver Stone
Kennedy
WGNC
Worcester
Mass
Flu deaths reach epidemic levels in U S
U S flu deaths reached epidemic levels in late December and early January, the CDC reported. It marks the first flu epidemic since 1989, with about 7 percent of deaths in 12 monitored cities linked to the illness, exceeding the projected 6.2 percent rate.
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Atlanta
United States
Federal
Centers For Disease Central
CDC
Larry Schonberger
Women Who Interrupt Careers Suffer Pay Gap Study Says
Economics professor Joyce Jacobsen led a study with a colleague showing women who pause careers for family care never reach the same earnings as peers who stay employed. She notes luck with timing and summer off aided her own return.
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San Jose
Calif
Joyce Jacobsen
Jacobsen
Slain couple's nephew arrested in Louisiana
Leesville officers and Vernon Parish deputies arrested Daniel Skinner 22 in a Leesville hotel room after a car matching a description by Seneca County deputies was found. A .22 rifle was seized as a possible tool in the killings of Gerald Skinner 41 and Raylene Skinner 38, whose bodies were found on Powderly Road. Daniel Skinner was charged with possession of stolen property and held for arraignment. investigators from Seneca County planned to question him.
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Waterloo
Gerald Skinner
Raylene
Powderly Road
Seneca County
Thomas H. Fox
Daniel L. Skinner
Richard Scott
Vernon Parish
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Continental Hotel
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Daniel Skinner
Bush collapses at state dinner amid illness reports
A secret videotape reportedly shows President Bush losing consciousness at a Tokyo state dinner and vomiting as First Lady Barbara Bush aids him. Treasury Secretary Brady says Bush ignored medical advice to skip the event to avoid upsetting the dinner.
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Bush
Washington Post
Treasury
Nicholas F. Brady
Burton Lee III
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