LOS ANGELES, Nov. 2, 1983 (UPI) - A UCLA science student was arrested Wednesday for using his home computer to break into a multi-national Defense Department computer system, gaining access to some ''very sensitive'' information.

MADISON, Wis., March 3, 1997 (UPI) -- Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are trying to clone a cow, although the leader of the project says success is a long way off. Dr. Neal First said Monday the researchers have successfully created three embryos by fusing fetal skin cells, or ''donor'' cells, with unfertilized eggs. But the embryos' chances of survival are low and First said the work won't mean much unless one of them produces a cow.

NEW YORK, April 11, 1997 (UPI) -- The hoopla greeting Dolly, the first successful clone of a mammal, may have made some people fear that armies of human clones were just around the corner.

ARLINGTON, Va., June 7, 1997 (UPI) -- A presidential bioethics panel today calls for federal laws banning creation of babies through human cloning. In its final public session, the 18-member National Bioethics Advisory Commission unveiled a working draft of a report that recommends expanding the current moratorium on federal funding to include privately funded human cloning research.

WASHINGTON, June 9, 1997 (UPI) -- President Clinton is urging Congress to ban human cloning, saying it reflects ''our humanity and it is the right thing to do.'' The president staged a Rose Garden ceremony today to publicly accept the findings of The National Bioethics Advisory Commission, which has unanimously recommended a new federal law banning creating human babies through cloning.

WASHINGTON, June 25, 1997 (UPI) -- The scientist who led the effort to clone sheep says two families so far have tried to persuade him to clone relatives, but he has said no. Dr. Ian Wilmut from the Roslin Institute outside Edinburgh told a news conference in Washington today that he remembers only two approaches from people who wanted him to try cloning specific humans.

NEW YORK, Oct. 10, 1997 (UPI) -- The world's leading cloning specialist says somebody will make a human clone in the next 10 years, and it will most likely spring to life on American shores.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 7, 1998 (UPI) -- A White House spokesman is decrying as ''irresponsible'' and ''unprofessional'' plans by a Chicago scientist to try to clone a human being. Spokesman Mike McCurry said today he felt certain the announcement by fertility researcher Richard Seed would prod Congress to quickly pass legislation to prevent such experimentation.

Religious figures are weighing in on the issue of human cloning. The Rev. Frank Pavone, a New York priest and the International Director of Priests for Life, says though the Catholic church is not opposed to scientific research and the cloning of plants and animals, ''the human person is different.

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 13, 1998 (UPI) -- Most proposed bans on human cloning would still leave plenty of legal loopholes for Richard Seed or other scientific mavericks who want to make carbon copies of people, says a legal expert.