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RAIN 08/28: Banks, medical, government and Churchill



Detroit Free Press 8/26/00
Disputed anthrax papers missing
Company seeks help from state to find them
http://www.freep.com/news/mich/ant26_20000826.htm

Associated Press
LANSING -- The recipe for making the U.S. military's anthrax vaccine is
among documents that have disappeared from a State of Michigan office,
according to transcripts of a court dispute.
Bioport Corp. is the vaccine's only licensed supplier in the United States
and has a contract to supply it to the U.S. military, which seeks to
vaccinate 2.4 million personnel.
The company has yet to receive U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval to
produce the vaccine and has not delivered a dose to the Defense Department
under the $100-million program.


Lansing State Journal 8/26/00
BioPort to review missing papers
Ex-state workers will share materials on anthrax vaccine
http://www.lsjxtra.com/news/ANTHRA.X26.html

by A.J. Evenson
Three former state scientists said Friday they will share documents they
possess detailing the method for making the military's anthrax vaccine with
the Lansing company that wants them.
A lawyer representing the employees said he doubts the materials - which
include manuals for making the anthrax vaccine and original notes - would
help BioPort Corp. solve its production problems regarding the vaccine.
BioPort requested the state of Michigan's help earlier this week to retrieve
the documents, whose existence surfaced during a dispute between the state
and its former employees. The employees, who worked for the vaccine labs
before the state sold the facility to BioPort in 1998, want royalties for
their work on the vaccine.


St. Petersburg Times 8/26/00
Judge postpones decision on releasing some of Coe's papers
http://www.sptimes.com/News/082600/TampaBay/Judge_postpones_decis.shtml

By Graham Brink
TAMPA -- After two hours of legal arguments and testimony and dozens of
pages of legal documents, Circuit Judge James Arnold decided Friday to put
off ruling on whether the State Attorney's Office should make public 34
pages of notes and phone message slips prior to Harry Lee Coe's death.
The Tampa Tribune sued after State Attorney Jack Rudy denied the newspaper's
request for the records last month.
WFLA-Ch. 8 reporter Steve Andrews interviewed Coe in July about loans he
received from two employees and allegations that he was gambling online and
at the local dog tracks. Later the same day, two Tribune reporters asked Coe
a series of similar questions.
A few days later, Coe shot himself in the head.



Washington Times 8/25/00
Kennedy, CIA papers released
http://www.washtimes.com/national/nobyline-2000825222236.htm

Associated Press
BOSTON (AP) - Thousands of secret CIA missives and other previously
classified materials, many documenting the internal foreign policy debate in
the Kennedy administration, have been made public for the first time.
Among the documents are memos between President John F. Kennedy and former
National Security Council Adviser McGeorge Bundy, cables sent from the U.S.
Embassy in Laos to the State Department during the early days of the Vietnam
War and efforts at political subversion in Cuba.
Hundreds of historians are expected to scrutinize the 4,500 pages made
public Wednesday at the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum.



Mobile Register 8/26/00
Some files were retained
Documents used to convict former Mobile County conservator were taking up
too much space, official says
http://www.al.com/news/mobile/Aug2000/26-a404761a.html

by Gary McElroy
A truckload of legal and financial files, used by prosecutors to convict
former Mobile County Conservator Thomas E. Bryant Jr. of theft in 1996, went
into the shredder on Friday.
Mobile County Assistant District Attorney Tom Harrison, who won six
first-degree convictions against Bryant, said the bulky files were destroyed
because they were no longer needed and were taking up too much space.
"This is not routine," Harrison said of the shredding. "This is an unusual
case in that we literally had a file room, plus two side rooms filled with
records from the Bryant office."



Los Angeles Times 8/26/00
Court orders hand-over of Zedillo Bank records
http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/20000826/t000080157.html

by Juanita Darling
MEXICO CITY--Obeying a historic ruling by Mexico's Supreme Court, Finance
Ministry officials Friday began preparing to turn over to Congress banking
records related to President Ernesto Zedillo's 1994 election campaign.
The ruling, handed down Thursday, marks the first time that the court has
stepped in to resolve a dispute between Congress and a president. Until
recent years, Zedillo's party monopolized power in all three government
branches.
"This is a historic decision," Justice Olga Sanchez Cordero told reporters.



Los Angeles Times 8/26/00
Records withheld in racetrack probe
http://www.latimes.com/news/state/20000826/t000080184.html

by Joe Mozingo
California labor authorities say some key thoroughbred trainers are
thwarting an ongoing investigation into possible overtime and minimum wage
violations at California's racetracks by collectively refusing to turn over
payroll records.
Labor inspectors this summer launched surprise sweeps in the stable areas of
five major racetracks, including one at Del Mar in San Diego County last
week, to see if low-wage workers who take care of the racehorses are getting
paid properly.



Seattle Post-Intelligencer 8/26/00
FAA concerned about America West's records
http://seattlep-i.nwsource.com/business/awst26.shtml

Bloomberg News
America West Airlines, the ninth-largest U.S. airline, said the Federal
Aviation Administration expressed concerns about the company's maintenance
records and reliability programs.


Daytona Beach News Journal 8/27/00
A paper history in Gainesville courthouse
http://www.news-journalonline.com/2000/Aug/27/FLA1107.htm

News-Journal Wire Services
GAINESVILLE - The museum that Buddy Irby built has no walls or windows.
But his archive stores, indexes and preserves a vast batch of paperwork -
millions of pages - some dating back to the early 1800s when the county's
boundaries stretched for miles, from the Florida-Georgia border to Tampa
Bay. And he has turned it into a gallery of sorts.
Irby's museum of ancient records is a virtual one, part of the Alachua
County clerk of circuit court's updated Web site. Besides topics such as
marriage certificates and jury duty, the site's "ancient records" section is
part of Irby's efforts as Alachua County's clerk of court to save aging
pieces of history.



Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 8/24/00
Man admints selling star's UPMC files to tabloids
http://www.post-gazette.com/regionstate/20000824cox1.asp

by Marylynne Pitz
A former UPMC Health System employee admitted yesterday that he sold singer
Tammy Wynette's confidential medical records to the National Enquirer and
Star tabloids.
A criminal complaint charging William A. Cox with one count of wire fraud
says the newspapers paid the 33-year-old Allegheny County man more than
$2,000 for information about the country music star, who was treated at UMPC
Presbyterian three times before dying at her Nashville, Tenn., home in April
1998.
In 1994, Wynette underwent surgery at Presby, where doctors widened her bile
duct. In 1995, when the singer lost her voice, she returned, and doctors
found polyps on her vocal chords and advised her to rest.



Arizona Republic 8/27/00
Doctors enter electronic age
Some clinics go nearly paperless
http://www.azcentral.com/business/0827techmed27.html

by Phil Galewitz
Associated Press
WHEAT RIDGE, Colo. - At the bank, a teller uses a computer to review your
savings account. In the airport, an airline agent uses a computer to check
your reservation. At the garage, a technician uses a computer to update your
car's maintenance history.
Almost everywhere today, a computer is helping life run more smoothly.
Unless you're at the doctor's office or the hospital.
Modern medicine, except for its billing systems, is largely still in the
computer dark ages, with only an estimated 5 percent to 10 percent of
physician offices using electronic record-keeping, according to industry
analysts.



Internet Week 8/25/00
E-signature gold rush is on
http://www.internetwk.com/story/INW20000825S0004

by Barbara Darrow
The race to implement digital signatures is on as companies rush to provide
foundation technology for the latest gold rush.
Celo Communications, Stockholm, Sweden, is a case in point. The company,
having established an e-signature presence in Europe, has new offices in
Mountain View, Calif. and is now focusing on the U.S. with client-side and
server-side software.
Celo recently unveiled PKI-based eSigner, client-side software that lets
authorized users sign entire Web pages, and lets legal documents be
digitally signed, authenticated, and validated.



Nando Times 8/27/00
Mitsubishi offices searched for signs of complaint cover-up
http://www.nando.com/noframes/business/story/0,2469,500244079-500361014-5021
19696-0,00.html

by Shigeyoshi Kimura
Associated Press
TOKYO (August 27, 2000 12:03 p.m. EDT http://www.nandotimes.com) - Police
searched the headquarters of Mitsubishi Motors Corp. as well as two
factories and two officials' homes Sunday in connection with the automaker's
massive 20-year cover-up of auto defects, an official said.
They confiscated more than 1,000 items, including records of meetings of
Mitsubishi officials discussing recalls, consumer complaints, and computer
disks containing records of recalls and consumers' claims, a Tokyo
Metropolitan Police official said on condition of anonymity.


Cincinnati Enquirer 8/27/00
Unitarians at history's crossroads
Church researches abolitionist roots
http://enquirer.com/editions/2000/08/27/loc_unitarians_at.html

by Kristina Goetz
It was a church founded in 1830, steeped in social activism in a city that
would soon after become known as the crossroads of the Underground Railroad.

Congregants of the First Unitarian Church in Cincinnati know some of their
founders participated in one of the greatest protest movements of the
pre-Civil War era. Some were staunch abolitionists, people who believed
strongly that slavery was wrong.
Those founding members' names are carefully scripted in a worn book in the
Cincinnati Historical Society. But for today's Unitarians, knowing the names
is no longer enough.



Seattle Times 8/27/00
Las Vegas museum preserves casinos' history
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/news/travel/html98/vegas27_20000827.html

by Bill Ordine
Knight Ridder Newspapers
LAS VEGAS - Steve Cutler, a former casino dealer and pit boss, acknowledges
rummaging through trash cans as a kid growing up here. It wasn't that
Cutler's family was needy; he was simply an incurable pack rat.
"What other people threw away, I dragged home," Cutler said. "I'm just
obsessed with collecting stuff."
Cutler's years of compulsive collecting have brought forth one of Las Vegas'
more informative attractions, and certainly one of the least expensive. The
Casino Legends Hall of Fame and its museum house one of the most exhaustive
collections of casino memorabilia in the world, with the vast majority of
the items coming from Cutler's personal store of historical material.


Electronic Telegraph 8/28/00
Churchill archive to go on internet
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=000140326706927&rtmo=QxwxwxSR&atmo=QxwxwxSR
&pg=/et/00/8/28/nwin28.html

by Sam Wallace
THE papers of Sir Winston Churchill, almost a million documents that span
his career as soldier, journalist and wartime prime minister, will be
published on the internet.
The collection, stored in 2,500 boxes at Churchill College, Cambridge, will
take four years to process and publish before an online version is launched.
The Chartwell Papers, which cover the period of Churchill's life up to July
28 1945, attracted controversy in 1995 when £13 million of lottery money was
used to buy them
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=000140326706927&rtmo=fqsqwsws&atmo=rrrr
rrvs&pg=/et/95/4/27/splash27.html> from a private Churchill family trust.




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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