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RAIN 05/03: Moon rocks, transcripts and audits



If you thought the recent Olympics bribery scandal was something new, well
think again. Read what was found in recently declassified Department of
State records concerning R. Nixon and the '76 Olympics.

All urls worked as of 7:45 am EDT

Times of London 5/2/00
Nixon offered the Moon in bid to host Olympics
http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/2000/05/02/timfgnusa02006.html

by Ben MacIntyre
Washington
RICHARD NIXON ordered an all-out effort to have the Olympic Games held in
Los Angeles in 1976, according to newly released files which reveal that the
United States even considered sweetening its bid by presenting every Olympic
official with a rare lump of Moon rock.


Nashua Telegraph 5/2/00
State official: Towns ignore paperwork deadlines
http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/Daily_Sections/News/Archives/2000/may/stories
/0502w-paperwork.htm

Associated Press
DURHAM (AP) - Durham officials who recently learned that none of the town's
annual financial reports has been sent to the state have plenty of company.
About 70 percent of the state's towns and cities do not send in the forms on
time, said Barbara Robinson, director of municipal services at the state
Department of Revenue.


Charleston Gazette 5/2/00
Records of calls between justice, judges sought
http://www.wvgazette.com/news/Other+News/2000050120/

by Fanny Seiler
Laying the groundwork for a constitutional challenge, New Martinsville
lawyer H. John Rogers has filed Freedom of Information requests for phone
calls and correspondence between Chief Justice Elliott Maynard and three
circuit judges who were appointed to sit on the Supreme Court in a recent
landmark case.


Digital Missourian 5/2/00
Limitation of hospital records discussed
http://digmo.org/news/local/premium/0502local987.html

by Jennifer Lutz
JEFFERSON CITY - A proposal by the state legislature to tighten access to
public hospital records was debated by affected organizations on Monday.
Representatives from the North Kansas City Hospital, Missouri Hospital
Association and Missouri Press Association met to discuss their differences
with the proposed legislation awaiting action by the full House.
The proposed law would increase penalties for withholding information and
close public hospital records pertaining to physicians' salaries and HMO
contracts.


Fort Worth Star Telegram 5/2/00
Computer problems limit H-E-B transcripts; students applying to colleges say
they cannot get complete records of their grades
http://www.star-telegram.com/news/doc/1047/1:FRONT27/1:FRONT270502100.html

by Matt Frazier
Eager to apply for scholarships, Trinity High School senior Katie Campbell
went to her counselor's office in April to get a transcript of her grades.
There was no transcript.


New Haven Register 5/2/00
WPCA audit finds records missing
http://www.zwire.com/site/index.cfm?newsid=400186&BRD=1281&PAG=461&dept_id=7
577

by Justin Sullivan
SEYMOUR -A special audit of the town's Water Pollution Control Authority has
run into a roadblock - public documents from a two-year period are nowhere
to be found
Letters from lawyers, contractors and residents written in 1998 and 1999 are
missing, said newly elected WPCA Chairman John Fanotto.


Reuters 4/27/00
U.S. Postal Service offers its stamp on e-mail
http://news.excite.com/news/r/000427/15/tech-mail

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Postal Service Thursday gave its stamp of
approval to electronic communication, the technology that threatens its core
business, by agreeing to offer "postmarks" for e-mail.
Deputy Postmaster General John Nolan said the service sold two million
electronic postmarks to PostX, based in Cupertino, Calif., in a partnership
deal.


Washington Post 5/2/00
Privacy concerns lead to a name change
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54243-2000May2.html

By Robert O'Harrow Jr.
Two years after Elensys Care Services Inc. ran into an explosion of
disapproval over its use of confidential prescription records, the
Massachusetts database management company has taken an unusual approach to
public relations.
It went away.
Without issuing a press release, Elensys dropped its old name and, in state
documents filed last fall, quietly became Adheris Inc. The company still
helps drug stores to remind patients to take medication on time. It has the
same executives, the same address at a Woburn, Mass., office park, the same
telephone number.
But gone is the name that came to symbolize the growing unease about
personal privacy, after people in the Washington region learned that CVS,
Giant and other pharmacies were sending personal medical information to
Elensys without their permission.


Toledo Blade 5/2/00
Brush must allow review of its papers
http://www.toledoblade.com/editorial/beryllium/0e02bery.htm

by Sam Roe
A federal judge has ordered the Brush Wellman beryllium firm to make
available hundreds of internal company documents to a court-appointed
official for review.
The judge authorized the official to review the documents to determine
whether they indicate the beryllium firm used its lawyers to make fraudulent
statements about the dangers of the deadly metal.


Washington Post 5/2/00
E-mail probe was expected
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51374-2000May1.html

by George Lardner Jr
White House officials early last year were expecting to be questioned by
Congress about the administration's failure to save thousands of e-mail
messages and were preparing an expensive plan to reconstruct them in light
of numerous subpoenas demanding that they be searched, according to an
internal memo.




Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
Woodside Summit Group, Inc
Richmond, Virginia
Tel: 804-744-1247 extension 23
Fax: 804-744-4947
mailto:peter.kurilecz@woodsidesummitgroup.com

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