Saturday, June 6, 1998
Protest against tests goes online, hackers break into BARC network
An upstart group of hackers called Milworm broke into the computers and network of India's premier nuclear establishment, the Bhabha Atomic Research Center (BARC) on Thursday, read sensitive e-mail and correspondence, and left behind anti-nuclear graffiti on the BARC homepage. Saying "the world is lucky we're so nice," Milworm members mocked BARC's computer security systems and said such break-ins had the potential for creating terror.
Reprieve for Clinton in intern sex scandal
The US Supreme Court has handed President Bill Clinton a legal victory, refusing to speed up a ruling on whether White House lawyers and secret service agents must testify in the sex-and-lies probe. The court turned down a petition from special prosecutor Kenneth Starr to rule this term on whether he could force testimony to a grand jury looking into charges Clinton had an affair with intern Monica Lewinsky.
Benazir urges scrutiny of graft case papers
Former Pakistani premier Benazir Bhutto has urged the country's Chief Justice to scrutinise the papers prepared by the government in the corruption cases against her, even as a top aide of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has said she would not be arrested until a court order.
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