5:07 p.m. EDT (2107 GMT) Monday, April 28, 1997

BONN, Germany (Reuter)

A German cabinet minister called Monday for increased efforts to fight crime on the Internet and demanded that cyber-sheriffs have keys to unlock coded messages. Interior Minister Manfred Kanther told a conference ..... "The technical and organizational competence of agencies charged with fighting computer crime must be strengthened." "The criminals are hiding in the anonymity of the networks, wiping their electronic tracks." Kanther said.