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RAIN 10/10: Who really discovered America?



Boston Herald 10/09/00
Archivists: Scot prince came before Columbus
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/local_regional/amer10092000.htm

by Franci Richardson
If the Westford Museum archivists are right, most Americans wouldn't be
honoring Christopher Columbus today for discovering this country.
Instead, we'd observe the arrival of Prince Henry Sinclair, a Scot who
allegedly landed on Prospect Hill in Westford nearly 100 years earlier than
Columbus came to America.
``I don't really know why people cannot see before Columbus, especially since
Columbus didn't set foot on the mainland of America,'' said Elizabeth Lane, a
volunteer archivist at the Westford Museum.
``They will have to rewrite the history books. There's a heck of a lot of
changes to be made.''


El Paso Times 10/09/00
Cook wants e-mail monitoring taken from mayor
http://www.borderlandnews.com/stories/borderland/20001009-51348.shtml

by Tammy Fonce-Olivas
The department that monitors the city's electronic correspondence, including
e-mail, may be moved from under the immediate supervision of the mayor,
Northeast city Rep. John Cook said Friday.
Cook plans to ask the City Council on Tuesday to consider moving the
Management Information Services Department underneath the city's Office of
Management and Budget. Currently the person in charge of the city's
information services department is Mark Threadgill, an executive assistant to
the mayor.
"(Information services personnel) should be reporting to someone else because
of the information that they have access to and the need for balance of power
between the legislative and executive branches," Cook said.



Baltimore Sun 10/08/00
The history beneath a mansion-sized mess
http://www.sunspot.net/content/news/story?section=news-maryland-sun&pagename=s

tory&storyid=1150490208518

by Laura Vozzella
Take one decaying mansion, add a bitter court battle, a bunch of history
buffs and the creeping threat of mold and water. The result is one part
treasure hunt, nine parts Dumpster dive.
Volunteers spent part of last week sifting through what once was a grand
17-room home, part of the 300-acre Blandair estate tucked in the middle of
Columbia.
With the property in legal limbo and the elements blasting through broken
windows, they were trying to salvage scraps of Howard County history before
it was too late.
If the task sounds like a delightful romp through Grandma's attic - complete
with steamer trunks, hat boxes and maybe a spider web or two just for effect
- guess again.



Houston Chronicle 10/09/00
Exhibit recalls the excitement of FDR's 1936 Houston visit
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/metropolitan/694815

by Bob Tutt
Early the morning of Thursday, June 11, 1936, excitement was mounting in
Houston over an impending visit by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
A banner headline in the Houston Chronicle later that day would proclaim
"Mightiest Throng in History of Houston Greets President Roosevelt and
Party."
The party referred to was his entourage, not the Democratic Party, but it's
clear there was also a strong political motivation in this Texas foray.
Roosevelt would be running for a second term later that year.
He was the first president to visit Houston since William H. Taft in 1909.
Roosevelt's official reason for being in Texas was to join in its centennial
celebration of winning independence from Mexico. This city was his first stop
in the state.


Reuters 10/09/00
Flooded with paper, some dream of paperless world
http://biz.yahoo.com/rf/001009/l05369072.html

by Adam Tanner
BERLIN, Oct 10 (Reuters) - Dave Pritchard is something of a fanatic when it
comes to avoiding paper and says his approach will gradually become
commonplace in business everywhere.
``I have a notebook (computer) with me wherever I go,'' said Pritchard,
director of corporate strategy at Asian-European computer maker Fujitsu
Siemens Computers who constantly scans and downloads his key documents.
``It's got masses of data space and I can get any mail, any notes, any
letter, any document, any market analysis, any financial spreadsheet within
minutes because it's there.''
After decades of premature hoopla about the paperless office, some experts
say the technology is finally ready to zap the need for reams of paper around
the office.


Associated Press 10/09/00
Pentagon can't find Deutch Disks
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20001009/pl/deutch_secrets_4.html

by John Solomon
WASHINGTON (AP) - Pentagon (news - web sites) investigators have been unable
to locate computer diskettes that ex-CIA (news - web sites) Director John
Deutch used to store a journal when working at the Defense Department,
officials say. The journal contained classified information.
Deutch has declined to be interviewed about the whereabouts of the disks,
created during his tenure as deputy defense secretary in the mid-1990s,
officials said.
``There's no way to tell what their ultimate disposition might have been
without talking to Dr. Deutch, and he has declined requests for our
investigators to talk with him on this or other topics,'' Rear Adm. Craig
Quigley, a Pentagon spokesman, said.




Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
pakurilecz@aol.com
Richmond, Virginia

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