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MSNBC.com 9/21/00
NYSE attempts to jump-start its longstanding paperless plan
http://www.msnbc.com/news/464267.asp?cp1=1
By Greg Ip
Wall Street Journal
Last March, New York Stock Exchange Chairman and Chief Executive Richard
Grasso picked up the New York Times to see a picture of a floor broker in a
frenzied trading crowd with his order tickets jammed in his mouth.
"THERE GOES MY IMAGE as a cutting-edge technologist," he groaned. In short
order, a "paperless committee" was created. Now, in both a big cultural shift
and a marketing offensive, the Big Board aims to go paperless by the middle
of next year.
ABCNEWS.go.com 9/21/00
Archivist gives glimpse of Clinton library holdings
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/ap20000921_1377.html
Associated Press
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) _ The presidential library holding Bill Clinton"s
memorabilia will include plenty of golf clubs and a touch of Elvis, but don"t
expect to see Monica Lewinsky"s blue dress there. The archivist tapped to
oversee the moving of tons of materials from Washington said Thursday that
items for the largest presidential collection in history will begin arriving
in Arkansas as early as next month. David E. Alsobrook, who is now director
of the Bush presidential library and also served as supervisory archivist at
the Carter Library in Atlanta, was in town Thursday to work on the logistics
of the move.
Flint Journal 9/21/00
Genesee County documents to be sold online
http://fl.mlive.com/news/index.ssf?/news/stories/20000921f21b1govol.frm
By Ron Fonger
Buying a birth, death or marriage certificate in Genesee County could be just
a mouse click away - perhaps by the end of this year.
The county Board of Commissioners on Wednesday gave tentative approval to
Clerk Michael J. Carr's plan to begin offering an online service through an
existing Web site and a Washington, D.C.-based company that would handle
billing.
The new system would allow customers to use credit cards for payment, cutting
two days from the typical seven-day wait for a vital record.
Honolulu Star Bulletin 9/20//
Documents hint at plans for cave artifacts
http://starbulletin.com/2000/09/20/news/story11.html
By Burl Burlingame
Removal of valuable Hawaiian artifacts from Bishop Museum late in February
has been described by the museum as a case of bureaucratic oversight on its
part and overzealousness on the part of Hui Malama, the Hawaiian group that
misled the museum into handing over the artifacts.
But federal financial documents show that Hui Malama planned to remove the
artifacts many months in advance, and even targeted the end of February.
Springfield Union-News 9/21/00
Restoration of records continues
http://www.masslive.com/newsindex/springfield/index.ssf?/news/pstories/se921lu
e.html
by Josie Huang
LUDLOW - Things haven't been the same in Ludlow since an air-conditioning
leak in the Town Hall's basement vault damaged town records dating back as
far as 1899.
Since the leak was discovered in early August, the doors to two hearing rooms
in the basement have been sealed with plastic and duct tape to house and
protect the damaged books. Water-damage restoration technicians can be seen
in the basement weekly, carting trash cans swishing with water emptied from
the dehumidifiers in the rooms and the vault.
Tacoma News Tribune 9/21/00
Crime records chief quits under fire
http://www.tribnet.com/frame.asp?/news/local/0921a12.html
By Paula Lavigne Sullivan
As Tacoma and Pierce County's police records agency confronts chronic
computer problems, an uncertain budget and complaints that it lacks
leadership, the boss announced Wednesday that he's retiring.
Bob Van Gieson, executive director of the Law Enforcement Support Agency,
held the post for eight years after working 22 years in the sheriff's office.
His leadership has come under fire over problems with LESA's new computer
system, known as the "Law Enforcement Activity and Data System 2000."
Radio Free Europe 9/21/00
Germany: U.S. sending files on GDR spies
http://www.rferl.org/nca/features/2000/09/F.RU.000920134355.html
By Roland Eggleston
In the next few weeks, the United States will give Germany thousands of files
that could be used to identify West Germans who spied for the German
Democratic Republic, or GDR, during the communist era. But German agents say
it is unlikely that many of them will be publicly exposed or placed on trial.
RFE/RL correspondent Roland Eggleston reports.
Times of London 9/17/00
Letters hint at Olivier's gay suitor
http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2000/09/17/stinwenws03019.html
by Jack Grimston
HE was the most famous British actor of his generation, revered across the
world for his interpretations of Shakespeare. His companion was a dashing
Hollywood star, renowned for his sexual dalliances.
The carefully preserved archive of Laurence Olivier, seen for the first time,
suggests that his friendship with Douglas Fairbanks Jr almost turned to an
affair.
The personal papers also show Olivier employed a "minder" to report on the
health of Vivien Leigh, his second wife, before they were even married.
Reuters 9/18/00
Ex-Banker's Trust officer pleads guilty in records case
http://news.excite.com/news/r/000918/17/crime-financial
By Gail Appleson
Law Correspondent
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A former Bankers Trust Corp. senior executive pleaded
guilty Monday to making $9.7 million worth of false bookkeeping entries in a
scheme to hide the true financial performance of the bank's client processing
service unit.
Bruce Kingdon, 49, a former partner and managing director in charge of
Bankers Trust's Client Processing Services, known as CPS, pleaded guilty in
Manhattan federal court to one count of conspiracy to make false entries in
the books of a financial institution and five counts of making the false
entries.
The scheme involving CPS, which provided processing and trust services to
institutional and individual clients, took place between 1993 and 1996.
Akron Beacon Journal 9/21/00
Court tells police to turn over disciplinary records
http://www.ohio.com/bj/news/ohio/docs/024792.htm
By Liz Sidoti
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- The Columbus police department must turn over
officers' disciplinary records to a newspaper that sued for access, and the
local Fraternal Order of Police cannot be involved in the lawsuit, the Ohio
Supreme Court decided Wednesday.
``The court confirmed what we knew and what we suspect the FOP knew -- that
these are clearly public records,'' said Benjamin Marrison, editor of The
Columbus Dispatch. ``Ohio law is very clear on what constitutes a public
record and a union contract cannot supersede state law.''
The Irish Times 9/15/00
Feis Ceoil archives go to National Library
http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/ireland/2000/0915/hom13.htm
By Alison Healy
A rare collection of archives documenting over 100 years of Feis Ceoil
activity has been acquired by the National Library.
The archives comprise programmes, competition papers and syllabuses from the
Feis Ceoil since its foundation in 1897. Included are competition papers of
performers such as Margaret Burke-Sheridan, Bernadette Greevy, Frank
Patterson and John O'Conor.
"Those names are only the tip of the iceberg," said Mr Dónall Ó Luanaigh,
Keeper of Collections at the National Library. He said many well-known people
took part in Feis Ceoil events.
Augusta Chronicle 9/21/00
Agents confiscate fire records
District attorney says GBI has probable cause to seize department's documents
after probe raised suspicions
http://augustachronicle.com/stories/092100/met_192-5676.000.shtml
By Sylvia Cooper and Sandy Hodson
The probe of Augusta's government heated up Wednesday as Georgia Bureau of
Investigation agents seized records concerning the city's fire department.
Wednesday's search was the first sign that the ongoing special grand jury
examination of the city government has turned the bend from looking into
allegations of mismanagement and waste to an investigation of possible
criminal acts.
Times of London 9/21/00
Battle to return German hoard of war memories
http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/2000/09/21/timnwsnws01032.html
By Michael Evans
Defence Editor
IN THE early part of the Second World War, a squaddie sent to fight the
Germans in France sat down with a pencil to write in a notebook of two
extraordinary events, occurring within days of each other, which changed his
life.
Writing in what became his personal war diary, covering from September 1939
to January 1942, the young private from the Royal Army Service Corps recalled
the moment he fell in love with a "nice-looking" French girl, and then had
his first brush with the enemy when the lorry in which he was travelling was
strafed with machine gunfire. "Am I scared," he wrote.
ABCNEWS.go.com 9/21/00
The 18 ½ minute mystery
Technology and the Historical Record
http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/DailyNews/nixontech000921.html
By Erica Rowell
Can today's technology help extract the sounds of silence from the famous 18
½ minute gap in the Nixon White House tapes?
The inconclusive conclusion reached today by the National Archives is no - at
least not yet.
"We called in a number of experts to give us some advice on whether there is
technology out there today that might help us recapture the sound on this 18
½ minute gap," said Susan Cooper, a spokeswoman for the National Archives.
Public and private sector audio experts gave presentations to the National
Archives and Records Administration Advisory Committee of Preservation on the
current state of audio restoration technology.
Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
pakurilecz@aol.com
Richmond, Virginia
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