Teen hacker accused of crippling control tower at airport
     BOSTON -- MARCH 19, 03:41 EST -- Sending a warning to young com-
 puter hackers, federal prosecutors charged a teen-age boy with shut-
 ting down an airport communications system.
 The U.S. Department of Justice said Wednesday the Massachusetts boy,
 whose name was not released, has agreed to plead guilty and faces
 two years probation, a fine and community service.
 The teen is the first juvenile charged in federal court with compu-
 ter hacking, officials said.
 The boy broke into a Bell Atlantic computer system on March 10,
 1997, (Why so long to hit the news? Jim) stalling communication
 between the control tower and aircraft at Worcester Airport for
 six hours, authorities said. No accidents occurred.
 "These are not pranks, this is not like throwing spitballs at your
 teacher," U.S. Attorney Donald Stern said. "Hackers should know that
 they will be caught and they will be prosecuted."
 The teen-ager was charged with juvenile delinquency, the umbrella
 charge that relates to all crimes committed by juveniles. In adult
 cases, the charge is called intentionally accessing protected
 computers.
 "We dodged a bullet that day," said Joseph Hogan, area manager for
 Robinson van Vuren, a company contracted by the Federal Aviation
 Administration to operate air traffic control towers in New
 England.
 When the teen-ager used his computer to break into the phone company
 computers, the system crashed, power was lost at the control tower
 and phone service was shut off to 600 houses in Rutland, a central
 Massachusetts community outside of Worcester.
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 Remnants of B-26 bomber from Bay of Pigs invasion found in Nicaragua
     MANAGUA, Nicaragua - March 19, 1998 00:36 a.m. EST -- A U.S.
 search team on Wednesday found pieces of a B-26 bomber that crashed
 in 1961 while returning from bombing Cuba during the Bay of Pigs
 invasion.
     The discovery comes just three weeks after the U.S. government
 published classified documents concerning the CIA-organized invasion,
 a failed attempt to overthrow Cuba's communist government.
     Two Cuban-born pilots are believed to have died in the crash on
 April 17, 1961, when they were unable to reach their home base in
 Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua, after returning from a bombing run over
 Cuba.
     Amid the stony silence the CIA maintained over the failed inva-
 sion for more than 30 years, the only person that heard the crash
 was a lone Nicaraguan farmer, who didn't even reach the once heavily-
 forested site of the crash until a year later.
     "The farmer found a boot with a foot in it, and a piece of elbow
 bone. He buried them, but he doesn't recall the exact spot," said
 Hugo Mendieta, Nicaragua's civil aviation director, who accompanied
 the search team.
     The B-26 -- one of a squadron of nine planes deployed from Puerto
 Cabezas, 190 miles northwest of Managua -- apparently crashed into a
 3,100-foot mountain near San Jose de Bocay, about 30 miles short of
 its destination.
     No attempts to recover the bodies of pilots Crispin Lucio Garcia
 Fernandez and Juan Mata Gomzalez Romero were made until 1985. They
 were unsuccessful. The U.S. Embassy here called the search a "human-
 itarian mission" aimed at returning the pilot's remains to relatives
 in Miami.
     But the search team, which includes experts from the U.S. Army's
 Central Identification Laboratory in Hawaii, didn't find much: some
 pieces of the B-26's fuselage and engines.
     The invasion by exiles on Cuba's southern coast was easily re-
 pelled by Castro's forces, who killed 200 rebel soldiers and captured
 almost 1,200. It was a major blow to the administration of former
 President John F. Kennedy, who had been in office for only a few
 months.
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