Computers at mercy of electronic 'virus'
  WASHINGTON (Reuter) - U.S. scientists are struggling to protect computer networks against a potentially devastating weapon called the “computer virus.” Computer security experts in the U.S. government said the “virus” is a high-technology equivalent of germ warfare: a destructive electronic code that could be inserted into a computer’s program, possibly over a telephone line, by a secret agent, terrorist or white-collar criminal.
   When a computer virus attacks, it wipes out crucial memory data or otherwise causes high-tech equipment to behave erratically, sources said, who spoke on condition they not be identified.
  They said a computer-virus attack might bring a major weapons system to a standstill, throw a computer-guided missile off course or wipe out computer-stored intelligence.
   “The government is concerned and we are actively pursuing solutions,” one security official said.
   Computer security experts at Fort Meade, Md., and Los Alamos, N.M., created experimental computer viruses in a bid to find defences, but there have been no breakthroughs.
   Both the military’s computer networks and the highly automated U.S. banking system are vulnerable to "catastrophic collapse,” a recent Georgetown University report said.
   Urging the pace of defensive research be quickened, it said the computer-virus threat is “a matter of great concern. There do not appear to be any quick and easy defences or overall solutions to the problem.”
   As to the banking system, the report warned: “The four major electronic funds-transfer networks alone carry the equivalent of the
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    “These almost incomprehensible sums of money are processed solely between the memories of computers, using communications systems that are vulnerable to physical disruption and electronic tampering.”
    An American Bankers Association spokesman said banking-sys-tem computer security is adequate and is being upgraded.
   Robert Kupperman, a former White House adviser, now with Georgetown University, said the computer virus is in its infancy as a weapon but could become a devastating instrument of electronic warfare or terrorism.
Vander Zalm eyes changes in cabinet
   VANCOUVER (CP) - There could soon be changes in the British Columbia cabinet, premier-designate Bill Vander Zalm said Monday.
    The new leader of the Social Credit party had been expected to hold off on any alterations of the cabinet until after he secured a seat in the legislature.
    However, during a visit to Expo Monday to take part in a big party held in conjunction with B.C. Day celebrations to say goodbye to retiring Premier Bill Bennett, Vander Zalm hinted that changes could come within the next week to 10-days.
    Several cabinet ministers like Jim Nielsen and Bill Ritchie have 'already said they could not work with Vander Zalm.
    Vander Zalm will be sworn in as premier on Wednesday.
     His first priority, he said, is the premier’s conference scheduled for next week in Edmonton.
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   VICTORIA (CP) — Municipal Affairs Minister Bill Ritchie, one of the unsuccessful candidates for the Social Credit leadership, resigned from cabinet today.
    Ritchie, 59, is one of .the cabinet ministers who has said he would find it difficult to work with premier-designate Bill Vander Zalm, who won the leadership race last Wednesday.
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Sanctions unity bid fizzles
by PATRICK NAGLE * Southam News
   LONDON — Dismayed and disappointed Commonwealth leaders today face the problem of how to discipline South Africa without the authoritative backing of their founding partner.
    Great Britain’s continuing refusal to join other Commonwealth governments in a co-ordinated economic sanctions campaign against Pretoria ended their mini-summit early and in disarray.
    The seven heads of government — from Australia, The Bahamas, Canada, India, United Kingdom, Zambia and Zimbabwe — argued night and day through Sunday and Monday only to conclude they were only six-to-one in favor of sanctions.
    With Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher witholding the crucial unanimous vote the leaders issued a final communique that was long on history but short of a definitive decision to cut off South Africa from the mainstream of Commonwealth commerce.
    “Each of us have different positions and different perspectives,” Thatcher told a closing press conference, “obviously what we do with respect to South Africa could have a much bigger impact than many, many Commonwealth countries.”
    In other words, the British prime minister was saying that what she was doing by herself was more significant than what her six colleagues were proposing.
    Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney put a brave face on the outcome of a conference he once held high hopes of influencing.
    Mulroney and External Affairs Minister Joe Clark had a special, private, 27-minute meeting Monday afternoon at 10 Downing Street — the prime minister’s residence — with Thatcher and British foreign secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe.
    But the personal Canadian intervention did not change the basic British government stance'Thatcher has held since well before last year’s Nassau conference empowered the group of seven to seek a way to introduce peaceful and constructive political change to racially-divided South Africa.
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    LONDON — Following is a complete list of the further economic sanctions against South Africa approved Monday by six out of seven Commonwealth leaders.
    The proposals were endorsed and will be implemented by Canada, Australia, The Bahamas, India, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
  ■	A ban on air links with South Africa;
 ■	A ban on new investment or reinvestment of profits earned in South Africa;
  ■	A ban on the import of agricultural products from South Africa;
  ■	Termination of double taxation agreements with South Africa;
  ■	Termination of all government assistance to, investment in and trade with South Africa;
  ■	A ban on all government procurement in South Africa;
  ■	A ban on government contracts with majority owned South African companies;
  ■	A baa on the promotion of tourism to South Africa;
  ■	A ban on all new bank loans to South Africa, whether public or private sector;
  ■	A ban on the import of uranium, coal, iron and steel from South Africa;
  ■	Withdrawal of all consular facilities in South Africa except for those dealing with their own nationals and nationals of third countries to whom are rendered consular services. This means South Africans wanting visas to any of the six nations will have to travel to nearby nations such as Botswana to get these documents.
    For its part, Great Britain only promised the following new restrictions against South Africa.
  ■	A voluntary ban on new investment in South Africa;
  ■	A voluntary ban on the promotion of tourism to South Africa;
  ■	Agreement to accept and implement any decision by the European Economic Community to ban the import of coal, iron, steel and gold coins from South Africa.
Rafters paddled with a vengeance Sunday as the cannon signalled	Mickey Mouse ears. About 30 rafts of all shapes and sizes, including
Raft race s*art Simon Fraser Days raft race from Wilkins Park to	one equipped with an outhouse and a barbecue, floated down the
                   Fort George Park. The “Big Cheeses” from Holiday Inn didn’t pad-	Nechako and Fraser rivers.
die first to the finish line but took away best hat prize for sporting	Citizen photo by Lisa Murdoch
Bennett honored at Expo 86 bash
        by Canadian Press VANCOUVER - B.C. Day celebrations at Expo 86 had added significance. Monday as the festivities featured a giant retirement party for Premier Bill Bennett.
   One invited guest — premier-des-ignate Bill Vander Zalm — did not attend the arrival of the official party but he was not among the scheduled speakers.
  Vander Zalm and his wife arrived later for another event and the new Social Credit leader took
Vacation costs family
$380,000
  SOENDERBORG, Denmark (AP) — A vacationing B.C. family lost its life savings of $380,000 Cdn in cash, which was stolen from a parked car in the southern city of Soenderborg, police reported today.
   Fritz Karger of Victoria, his wife, Lizzy, and two children had driven to Denmark from neighboring West Germany on Sunday and planned to stay only a few hours to see the sights.
   They were visiting historic Soenderborg Castle when a thief stole a briefcase from the trunk of their car containing the family’s savings in Canadian $1,000 bills, police said.
   Karger, a West German citizen, sold'his Canadian company before he left Canada to return to his native country and buy a house in Hamburg. Since the family hadn’t been able to make a decision about the house they had in mind, they brought the money along with them to Denmark, police reported.
   “There have been some estimates in the press of tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands (of deaths from cancer),” Dr. Robert Gale of Los Angeles said in an interview. "These are clearly wrong. It will be a much lower number. It may be in the hundreds or thousands, something like that.”
   Gale, an expert on bone marrow transplants from the University of Southern California at Los Angeles, said leukemia is likely to be the first cancer to appear.
 responsibility for the earlier no-show, saying he had been tied up in transition meetings.
   Thousands of people jammed the Plaza of Nations, and later the Kodak Bowl, waving flags and sporting buttons saying Thank-you Bill Bennett for a Super Expo.
   The enthusiastic crowds gave Bennett a standing ovation in the Plaza of Nations and sang For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow at the afternoon event.
   It was in contrast to the polite, but restrained, reaction from 1,300 leadership delegates who attended a tribute to Bennett last week in Whistler.
   Entertainment at the morning event ranged from classical music to folk dancing. Singer Ann Mor-tifee also performed.
   Bennett told the crowd British Columbians could be proud of their world’s fair because it had brought countries, some of which have poor relations with others, together in a friendly atmosphere.
   "We in British Columbia can be proud for daring to put on an international exposition at a time when there are international tensions,” he said.
   Bennett said that Expo would have many legacies, but the one he hoped was most lasting was one of peace.
   "Expo has shown it can bring countries together in a peaceful atmosphere, so let’s hope its biggest legacy is one of peaceful example to a world crying out for peace and understanding.”
   At the afternoon event Expo chairman Jim Pattison turned over the keys to former Beatle John Lennon’s Rolls-Royce to the retiring premier, saying it was a gift to the province.
   Pattison paid more than $2 million for the vehicle at an auction in New York a year ago. It has been on display outside the British pavilion.
Citizen photo by Lisa Murdoch
Food fest
    Chang Choi samples some blueberry grunt from the Atlantic provinces booth at the international food festival during the weekend. About 11,000 people turned out during the three-day fair on George Street to sample foods from 12 different countries. The festival was one of many events held in conjunction with Simon Fraser Days, running until Aug. 10.
Doctor queries Chernobyl toll
   TEL AVIV (AP) - A U.S. doctor who treated victims of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster said Sunday that hundreds, and perhaps thousands, of survivors may die from leukemia and other cancers caused by exposure to radiation.