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Czech Today 8/4/00
Prague to give Washington Copies of Nazi SS documents
http://www.centraleurope.com/czechtoday/news.php3?id=186054

Agence France Presse
PRAGUE, Aug 4, 2000 -- (Agence France Presse) Czech authorities will hand
over to their U.S. counterparts thousands of microphotograph copies of
documents from secret archives of the Nazi-era SS, an interior ministry
official said on public television.
U.S. specialists recently traveled to Prague to examine the SS documents
which have been kept in the Czech military archives.


Atlanta Journal Constitution 8/6/00
Strategies, secrets are uneartheed form the records of the Games and the
bid.
http://www.accessatlanta.com/partners/ajc/epaper/editions/sunday/news_93c87f
42025820260043.html

by Melissa Turner
The inside story of the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games is contained in hundreds
of boxes of confidential memos, correspondence, meeting minutes and page
after page from the electronic diary of Billy Payne.
But for nearly a decade, Atlanta's Olympic organizers had staked a claim to
the historical record of the Games. The 1996 Atlanta Olympics, they
vigorously insisted, was a private event staged by a private corporation.


Boston Globe 8/6/00
Film Office files are subpoenaed in Teamster probe
Investigators want records of all movies in recent years
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/219/nation/Film_Office_files_are_subpoenae
d_in_Teamster_probe+.shtml

by Shelley Murphy and Stephen Kurkjian
Afederal grand jury has subpoenaed records of the Massachusetts Film Office
as part of an intensified criminal investigation into allegations of
extortion of Hollywood movie executives by officials of Teamsters Local 25
in Charlestown.
According to sources familiar with the investigation, the federal agents
sought all documents maintained by the office relating to movies filmed in
Massachusetts in recent years. Among other records, the investigators are
seeking any communications the film office has had with movie studios on
their complaints about dealing with the Teamsters.



Sydney Morning Herald 8/4/00
Queen Mother's letter on Wallis Simpson removed from archive
http://www.smh.com.au/news/0008/04/text/royal103.html

by Sandra Barwick
The London Telegraph
A LETTER from the Queen Mother, written a few weeks after she described
Wallis Simpson as "the lowest of the low", has been removed from the
Monckton archive, opened to the public yesterday.
An index in the papers of Walter Monckton, who acted as lawyer and confidant
for Edward VIII during his abdication, discloses that the then Queen wrote
to him on Aug 14, 1940. The letter confirmed that the Duke and Duchess of
Windsor were to arrive in the Bahamas, where the Duke had been sent as
Governor, judged a safe occupation for the duration of the war.


Los Angeles Times 8/6/00
Putting Names to Slavery Transactions
http://www.latimes.com/editions/orange/ocnews/20000806/t000073701.html

Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS--In her younger days, she was a political radical who couldn't
hold a job, a civil rights lawyer's daughter who was disgusted by the
oppression of American blacks and intrigued by their stories.
Now 71 and a retired history professor, Gwen Midlo Hall is on a mission to
shed light on America's slaves and their personal histories through
thousands of pages of handwritten, colonial-era documents salvaged from
courthouse basements across Louisiana and as far away as France and Spain.
The records, now compiled on a CD-ROM database, cover more than 100,000
slaves, in what is believed to be the largest collection of its kind.



Birmingham News 8/4/00
Board battles records release
http://www.al.com/news/birmingham/Aug2000/4-e426310b.html

by Kathy Kemp
The Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles on Thursday continued its legal
battle to avoid releasing documents in a controversial rape case.
The board asked the Alabama Supreme Court to block Montgomery County Circuit
Judge Charles Price's order that the board give him confidential parole
records for review. The board also asked the higher court to halt a hearing
scheduled for 10 a.m. today in Price's courtroom.
The Montgomery County district attorney's office was preparing a response
should the Supreme Court rule in the board's favor. The legal sparring
"could go on until time for the hearing," said Deputy District Attorney Mark
Dukes.


Evansville Courier & Press 8/4/00
Firm allegedly destroys papers
http://www.courierpress.com/cgi-bin/view.cgi?200008/04+probe080400_news.html
+20000804

by Dave Hosick
American General Finance is the subject of an FBI probe into the alleged
destruction of documents pertaining to the bankruptcy of a subsidiary
company, the Courier & Press has learned.
A federal investigation was quickly put into action after an employee of the
Evansville-based American General Finance came forward July 24. She alleged
a former supervisor instructed her to destroy documents pertaining to the
bankruptcy of the subsidiary, A.G. Financial Service Center Inc.
The allegations made by Julie Great-house, if proven true, could result in
the local company being held liable in a $167 million court judgment. The
verdict against A.G. Financial Service Center Inc. forced it to file for
bankruptcy.



Washington Post 8/6/00
Clinton Presidential Library at center of land dispute
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43331-2000Aug5.html

by Paul Duggan
LITTLE ROCK -- An Arkansas land deal involving President Clinton has stirred
controversy here. Forget Whitewater--that's old news. The current flap
threatens not to disrupt Clinton's waning presidency, but foul up his
retirement plans.
After a careful selection process, Clinton in 1997 chose a prime spot in
Little Rock's rejuvenated River Market district for his future presidential
library--a 27-acre site amid restaurants and shops, galleries and
residential lofts, on a bank of the Arkansas River. The city had lobbied
hard for the library, promising to provide the land, and when Clinton
announced his decision, officials here were elated.







Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
Manager, Records Management
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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