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Peter:

I would like to read the story from Hartford but the link says I do not have editorial authorization. How do I get approval for reading this article? Thanks -- Arlette Copeland

Kurilecz, Peter wrote:

Hartford Courant 8/13/00
Uconn archive project preserves voices of WWII
http://www.ctnow.com/scripts/editorial.dll?bfromind=1248&eeid=2919187&eetype
=article&render=y&ck=&userid=169674173&userpw=.&uh=169674173,2,&ver=hb1.40

by Robert A. Frahm
"Well, there was so much debris in the water: sunken ships and bodies and
planes and all kinds of stuff. This big [landing craft] couldn't get to
shore. We had to pull [our] guns onto this barge ... It took us hours to get
[to the beach] ... You felt very vulnerable."
Franklin Johnson has told his D-Day story before - to family, fellow
veterans, high school students - but now the recollections of this World War
II artillery gunner will be saved for history.
His account is not only recorded in archives at the University of
Connecticut, but also is posted on the Internet.

Fort Dodge Messenger 8/13/00
Marshall County officials in e-mail controversy
http://www.messengernews.net/news/stories/n081300c.html

by Andy Paugh
Special to The Messenger
MARSHALLTOWN -- The Marshalltown Times-Republican recently received from an
informant several computer disks of e-mails containing sexually explicit
pictures and content sent and received by Marshall County officials.
Approximately 48 e-mails received by officials, and, in several cases,
transmitted to more than 850 other people, were contained in the disks, sent
from December 1998 through June 2000. Many of these e-mails contained jokes
of a sexually explicit nature along with explicit cartoons or sexually
suggestive or pornographic photos sent as attachments.

Dallas Morning News 8/12/00
Slaves to history
College effort collects biographical data on Texas' pre-Civil War blacks
http://dallasnews.com/texas_southwest/139946_texasslaves_12.html

by Erik Rodriguez
HOUSTON - Her name, simply, was Savannah.
Twenty years old in 1858, the young slave was loaded onto a Galveston-bound
New Orleans ship and destined for a master in Austin. The federal papers
listing Savannah as property on the vessel described her as light black and
5 feet 4, with a shipper/owner listed as E.M. Peare.
Modern history knows little of what became of her, or any of the other
estimated 250,000 slaves in Texas in the three decades preceding the Civil
War.
Eric Walther, an associate professor of history at the University of
Houston, is trying to change that. In 1998, he created the Texas Slavery
Project, an attempt to compile biographical information for every slave who
ever lived in Texas and other details that are fast fading into time.
It's an overwhelming task, he said.

Washington Post 8/11/00
Top CIA officials won't declassify some Chile files
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/politics/fedpage/A6851-2000Aug10.html

by Vernon Loeb
After promising for months to declassify a wealth of information about
Central Intelligence Agency covert operations in Chile, senior CIA officials
are refusing to give up hundreds of documents compiled under a
declassification process ordered by President Clinton.
Clinton announced the declassification effort after the arrest of Gen.
Augusto Pinochet in 1998, ordering agencies across the federal government to
review and broadly release secret U.S. documents relating to political
violence and human rights abuses in Chile from 1968 to 1991.
But CIA Director George J. Tenet this week decided against declassifying
hundreds of documents culled from files and databases inside the agency's
secretive Directorate of Operations on grounds that releasing them would
reveal too much about CIA sources and methods.

CNN.com 8/11/00
Government records to become available online anytime, any place
http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/08/11/government.records.idg/index.ht
ml

William Matthews
Federal Computer Week
(IDG) -- U.S. Archivist John Carlin said he intends to stay in office to
complete the creation of an electronic archive that would make government
records available online "anytime, any place." That means he plans to be the
nationâs chief recordkeeper for at least another five years.

Mobile Register 8/10/00
Genealogists to hear Probate candidates
http://www.al.com/news/mobile/Aug2000/10-a358854a.html

A question-and answer forum with Rose McPhillips and Don Davis, the
candidates for Mobile County Probate Court Judge, will be the program for
the monthly meeting of the Mobile Genealogical Society on Saturday from 1 to
2 p.m.
The meeting will be at the old St. Joan of Arc Catholic School at Ann and
Elmira streets. Parking will be available on street as well as behind the
building in the fenced area. Visitors will be welcome.
For more information, call 432-6474. RECORDS COMMITTEE
Records are always at risk of accidental or scheduled destruction. Today,
many additional problems threaten access to the documents and collections
that hold our genealogical, medical and social history. Funding cuts
resulting from budget crises, large-scale natural disasters, and rapidly
changing technology add to the existing problems of preserving and
maintaining access to records.

Times of London 8/13/00
Police handed secret army files on Ulster
http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2000/08/13/stinwenws02011.html

by Liam Clarke
THOUSANDS of secret military documents have been released to police in a
significant breakthrough in the investigation into collusion between
loyalist paramilitaries and security forces in Northern Ireland.
The classified documents, delivered to Sir John Stevens's inquiry last week,
include records of British Army undercover agents in terrorist groups and
RUC intelligence files.
Most of the documents relate to the Force Research Unit (FRU), which handled
the army's undercover agents and informants in the province during the
1980s.

Nando Times 8/12/00
Government adopts simpler health care forms for doctors
http://www.nando.com/noframes/story/0,2107,500238695-500350367-502030444-0,0
0.html

Associated Press
WASHINGTON (August 12, 2000 9:17 a.m. EDT http://www.nandotimes.com) - In an
attempt to reduce paperwork, the government has adopted simpler health care
forms for doctors to submit payment claims to insurers by computer.
The plan, announced Friday, establishes standard formats for submitting
electronic claims and other administrative health transactions. All health
care providers will be able to use the electronic format to bill for their
services, and all plans will be required to accept the forms.
"These standards are important steps toward a faster, simpler, less costly
and more efficient health care system," Department of Health and Human
Services Secretary Donna E. Shalala said.

Sri Lanka Daily News 8/13/00
Move to recognise electronic information
http://www.lanka.net/lakehouse/2000/08/13/bus03.html

by Paneetha Ameresekere
New legislation incorporating provision that would include legal recognition
to electronic messages and electronic signatures, the admissibility of
electronic information in a court of law and the acceptance of electronic
contracts, has been recommended by a high-powered committee.
The committee, mainly comprising members of CINTEC's (Council for
Information Technology) Committee on Law and Computers, submitted proposals
for electronic commerce legislation to Science and Technology Minister Batty
Weerakoon last month.

Star Tribune 8/13/00
Junk mailers want UW students
http://www2.startribune.com/stOnLine/cgi-bin/article?thisStory=82305329

Statewire/AP
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Merchants have made hundreds of requests during the
last two years to obtain University of Wisconsin-Madison student directory
information for direct mail purposes, a newspaper reports.
The Capital Times said its open records request showed campus organizations
and firms involved in such things as graduation announcements, class rings
and educational financing sought the information.
But it said others seeking it were more commercial, including Aunt B' s
Homemade Delights, Cellular One, Stadium Sports, First Federal bank and
local private housing providers.

Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
Manager, Records Management Group
Woodside Summit Group Inc
Midlothian, Virginia
Office: 804-744-1247 x23
Fax: 804-744-4997
mailto:peter.kurilecz@woodsidesummitgroup.com

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