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      Students Suspended After Clinton E-Mail Threat    Students
      Suspended After Clinton E-Mail Threat January 23, 1997, 10:01 AM
      EST

 BETHLEHEM, N.H. (Reuter) - Two New Hampshire high school students
 were under suspension Thursday after the Secret Service traced a
 computer mail death threat they allegedly sent to President Clinton
 over the Internet.

 The two 10th graders from Profile High School in Bethlehem sent the
 threat Jan. 13, Secret Service agent James Fitton said from his
 Concord, New Hampshire, office.

 Bethlehem School Superintendent Robert Horan said the students
 claimed they never expected the message to reach the president. But
 the message not only arrived at a White House web site, its contents
 were intercepted by the Secret Service, which traced it back to a
 Profile High School computer lab.

 The students were suspended shortly after the incident until the end
 of the month and have been banned from logging on to the school's
 Internet computer server for the rest of their high school years.

 Federal officials say they doubt criminal charges will be filed.
 ``We're satisfied the school took appropriate action against the
 students,'' Fitton said.

 The incident is the third time Clinton has been threatened via
 computer mail or e-mail from New Hampshire by students during the
 past three months, Fitton said. Two juveniles from Keene and Salem
 also made cyber-threats, he said.



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