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Re: Papers of Joseph Alioto



 Having had this question posed before, I believe the papers have not
surfaced or been given to an institution as yet, Alioto having just passed
away 2 or 3 years ago.  There are snipets of his correspondence, etc.
scattered around special collections in San Francisco, but to my knowledge,
they have not yet been deposited anywhere. Many of his family members are
still living and active in San Francisco.
  But, you might check with the Archivist at the San Francisco Public
Library or at the History Center in the Public Library.  They should go
there, and perhaps have.


Patricia L. Keats
Library Director
Alice Phelan Sullivan Library
Society of California Pioneers
300 4th St.
San Francisco, CA  94107
Date:    Sun, 19 Nov 2000 14:05:16 EST
From:    "Edward L. Lach, Jr." <JHNURSE@AOL.COM>
Subject: Papers of Joseph Alioto

Dear Listserve members:

I'm trying to determine the location of the papers of Joseph Alioto,
businessman and former mayor of San Francisco.  Any ideas?

Sincerely,


Edward L. Lach, Jr.

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Date:    Sun, 19 Nov 2000 20:27:47 -0500
From:    Don Saklad <dsaklad@GNU.ORG>
Subject: Open government principles. Our cities' public libraries.

Legitimately public routine administrative records that
should be open for examination at our regional and
Massachusetts Library of Last Recourse City of Boston
Public Library Departments have not been managed
appropriately.
http://listserv.muohio.edu/SCRIPTS/WA.EXE?A2=ind0010c&L=archives&O=D&P=1
7669

Public library users, public library personnel,
BPL alumni, BPL spouses, BPL families, BPL friends
and public library unions collective bargaining
labor relations advocates all need better access
to our institutional public records, documents,
papers and data.

BPL President Bernie Margolis and
Director of Operations Ruth Kowal need to comply with
Commonweath of Massachusetts standards and manuals for
records management
http://www.state.ma.us/sec/arc/arcrmu/rmuidx.htm



oo-- dWs
Guide to Problematical Library Use
http://guidetoproblematicallibraryuse.weblogs.com

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Date:    Sun, 19 Nov 2000 21:33:02 EST
From:    Peter Kurilecz <PAKURILECZ@AOL.COM>
Subject: RAIN 11/19 : Weekend Update Part 1

Macon Telegraph 11/18/00
FBI's e-mail surveillance claims questioned
http://web.philly.com/content/macon/2000/11/18/nation/1118carnivore.htm

by D. Ian Hopper
Associated Press
WASHINGTON -- The FBI says its e-mail surveillance tool known as Carnivore
is
used only for narrow purposes, but recent tests show it could capture all
communications that go through an Internet service, according to bureau
documents.
The documents also reveal the price of Carnivore's precursor, called
Omnivore. A 1997 FBI memo states that the bureau requested more than $2.3
million to develop Omnivore.
Privacy experts worried Friday about the breadth of Carnivore's capability
and questioned why the FBI conducted such a test five months ago if it does
not intend to use the tool in that fashion.
"That really contradicts the explanation that the FBI has provided as to
the
purpose of the system and how it works," said David Sobel, general counsel
for the Washington-based Electronic Privacy Information Center.



Lansing State Journal 11/17/00
Ruling: Police can't seal records of complaints
Suit follows attempt to review grievances against LPD officers
http://www.lsjxtra.com/news/COURT1.7.html

by Paul Egan
The Court of Appeals has upheld a lower court ruling that says reports
documenting the investigation of citizen complaints against police are
public
records.
And the Lansing Police Department may also have to release records related
to
police complaints against fellow officers requested by the Lansing State
Journal, a three-judge panel said in a decision released this week.
The public interest in disclosing the records outweighs the interests of
the
city and the police union in keeping the records sealed, the decision said.
Dawn Phillips-Hertz, attorney for the Michigan Press Association, said the
decision will benefit the public.
"A civilized society is very dependent upon its law enforcement," she said.
"You don't build confidence by sweeping under the rug bad conduct, because
the rumors still get around."



Australian News Network 11/19/00
ON the trail of missing warriors
http://news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,1430489%255E401,00.html

by Walter Mears in Hanoi
UNITED States President Bill Clinton has turned over 350,000 pages of
documents to help Vietnam trace Vietnamese people unaccounted for in the
war.

Mr Clinton also praised Vietnam's efforts to track down missing Americans.
"No two nations have ever before done the things that we are doing together
to find the missing from the Vietnam conflict," Clinton said in a speech
yesterday at National University, the major speech of his three-day visit
to
Vietnam.
Clinton discussed the matter of 1498 Americans missing in action in
separate
meetings with the Vietnamese president and prime minister as well as in his
speech.
More than one million more pages of documents are to be given to Vietnam by
the end of the year to aid the search for details on some 300,000
Vietnamese.
The documents include records from US medical units which treated mortally
wounded Vietnamese and information on where battles took place and on the
number of people reported to have been killed on each side, said Sandy
Berger, Clinton's national security adviser.



Los Angeles Times 11/18/00
Photographer's work documents forgotten lives
http://www.latimes.com/editions/orange/ocnews/20001118/t000110788.html

Associated Press
BUFFALO, N.Y.--For decades, photographer Milton Rogovin and his wife Anne
sought out the people they call the "forgotten ones," the hard working,
hard-luck or just plain hardened of society, capturing their faces--their
lives really--with a vintage Rolleiflex camera and black-and-white film.
"I'm not trying to entertain people. I want to let them know that there are
people in this world who are poor and should be paid attention to," says
Rogovin, at 90 as committed as ever to his cause.
Rogovin's "forgotten ones" fill books. "Triptychs," a collection from those
days on Buffalo's lower west side, shows subjects first photographed in the
1970s and revisited in their careworn neighborhood in the 1980s and 1990s.
The gritty "Portraits in Steel" shows Buffalo steelworkers on the job and
at
home shortly before the industry's collapse.


CNNSI.com 11/17/00
Opening the'black box'
Documents heded to capital for Brazilian inquiry
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/soccer/news/2000/11/17/brazil_inquiry/

RIO DE JANEIRO -- The Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) promised on
Friday to send, literally, a truckload of documents to Brasilia to help a
Congressional inquiry investigating the country's national sport.
The truck, which will be given an armed escort, will set off from the CBF's
headquarters in Rio de Janeiro for the 1,150 kilometers drive to the
capital
as soon as the mass of papers are loaded, the CBF said in a statement.
The CBF said that a list of transfers over the last 10 years -- just one of
the items the commission of inquiry wants to examine -- alone occupies a
space of four cubic meters.
"We have 20 people working just on the preparation of documents which will
be
sent to the commission of inquiry," said the statement. "It's a lot of
paper."



Sydney Morning Herald 11/18/00
Military may sell health records database
http://www.smh.com.au/news/0011/18/text/national2.html

by Judith Whelan
Health Writer
The health records of more than 50,000 defence force employees will be
stored
on an electronic database that could be sold to research and insurance
companies.
Defence personnel would have no choice about whether their records were
included in the electronic system, just as they had no choice now over
whether they were included in the paper records system.
The Federal and State governments have said they intend to establish
similar
systems to cover the general community, although individuals would be able
to
choose whether their records were included.
The defence records would be owned by the Commonwealth and, unlike the
unwieldy paper system, the database would be portable and flexible enough
to
be of use to research and insurance companies.



Rocky Mountain News 11/18/00
Colorado court records going online
http://insidedenver.com/news/1118onlin.shtml

by Steven K. Paulson
Associated Press
Want to know if your day-care provider has a criminal record?
How about any pending lawsuits against that contractor you want to hire?
A new online system will provide records from the Colorado Judicial Branch,
making the state one of the first in the nation to allow public access to
its
statewide court information database.
"After considering the difficult issues of public safety, convenient public
access to information, expense and technology feasibility, we decided to
find
a company willing to provide this access without additional cost to the
taxpayers," Supreme Court Justice Alex Martinez said.



The State News 11/16/00
East Lansing voting records sealed, recount closer
http://news.excite.com/news/uw/001117/politics-103

by Jamie Gumbrecht
Michigan State University
(U-WIRE) EAST LANSING, Mich. -- Republican Congressman-elect Mike Rogers is
busy picking out an office in Washington, D.C., and electing new leadership
for Congress.
But his opponent for the 8th Congressional District seat, state Sen. Dianne
Byrum, D-Onondaga, is keeping busy with office plans of her own.
Byrum will be asking for a recount, and possibly a revote, after the Nov.
27
certification of the election by the State Board of Canvassers. A recount
could alter the 152-vote difference between the Congress hopefuls, changing
the outcome of the election. In preparation, the East Lansing voting
records
were sealed by the Ingham County Board of Canvassers on Tuesday as evidence
for potential court cases.



Denver Post 11/18/00
Company puts court records on the 'Net
http://www.denverpost.com/business/biz1118f.htm

by Anne Colden
Colorado court records became available over the Internet on Friday with
the
formal launch of e-InfoData.com, a Boulder company that won a state
contract
to provide the information.
For $5 a search or less, depending upon the number of searches conducted in
a
month, e-InfoData.com will provide access to court records from most
counties
in Colorado through the Web site www.CoCourts.com. The latest status and
case
histories of criminal, civil, domestic and traffic cases, among others,
will
be included.
The database will be updated more than 100,000 times a day, said Lee Sands,
e-InfoData.com's founder and president. "The real-time data makes this
information very important," he said.





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

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Date:    Sun, 19 Nov 2000 21:37:44 EST
From:    Peter Kurilecz <PAKURILECZ@AOL.COM>
Subject: RAIN 11/19: Weekend Update Part 2

New York Times 11/12/00
Counterintelligence: She shopped till she dropped everything off at the
museum
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/12/living/12COUN.html

by Alex Witchel
WHEN Valerie Steele, the acting director of the Museum at the Fashion
Institute of Technology, met Evangeline Morphos last week, she grasped her
hand eagerly. "You've become a mythical figure for me," she exclaimed.
Ms. Morphos looked pleased and a little embarrassed. An associate professor
in the theater division at the School of the Arts at Columbia University,
and
the wife of a Columbia history professor, she does not seem a likely
candidate to inspire such breathlessness from the high-fashion crowd. But
after acting on a millennial New Year's resolution to clean out the storage
room in her Upper West Side apartment, Ms. Morphos has found herself the
newest object of Seventh Avenue's affection.
In addition to 2,000 Playbills and 10 years' worth of Architectural Digest,
Ms. Morphos turned up 193 pieces of Perry Ellis signature clothing
(color-block sweaters, cropped trousers, oversize jackets) she had bought
and
worn in the early 1980's. She contacted Perry Ellis International offering
to
donate them, and a team was dispatched to examine the goods, which Ms.
Morphos displayed on racks in her dining room. For the company, it was a
windfall; following the designer's death in 1986 it moved several times and
had no material archive of the clothing, only videos.



Bergen Record 11/18/00
Yale fight song still fun
http://www.bergen.com/morenews/yalee200011185.htm

by Diane Scarponi
Associated Press
When Yale's football team was getting ready to play Harvard in 1900, a
student put together a simple, fun-to-sing song to rouse the crowd at the
Yale Bowl.
A hundred years later, the song's refrain, "Boola Boola," is synonymous
with
old-time college football and steeped in mystery, as befits the Ivy League
of
yore.
The recent discovery in Montclair of documents from the song's author is
helping put some of the mystery to rest.
Contrary to popular myth, "boola" doesn't mean anything in Hawaiian, and
the
song wasn't written by Cole Porter. The author was 1901 Yale graduate Allan
M. Hirsh, who adapted the song from an 1898 song called "La Hoola Boola."



New York Times 11/19/00
Key's holder unlocks mystery of TV treasure
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/19/nyregion/19KEY.html

by Glenn Collins
So just how did all those television scripts get into Max Liebman's closet,
and why did they remain undiscovered for so long?
Those were just a few of the questions raised on Tuesday, when The New York
Times reported that the staff of the City Center in Manhattan had unearthed
a
trove of 47 boxloads of scripts and other memorabilia in a locked,
painted-shut closet that had not been disturbed for decades. The papers
were
stashed away by Mr. Liebman, a legendary producer from the golden age of
television who died in 1981 at what was believed at the time to be the age
of
78.
The closet was a few steps from the sixth-floor office at 130 West 56th
Street long known as the writers' room, where Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca and
Carl Reiner worked with young writers like Mel Brooks and Neil Simon to
create their classic comic sketches in the 1950's for "Your Show of Shows."



Rocky Mountain News 11/19/00
Public records making way to Web
Efforts to increase security will probably intensify debate over
information
access
http://www.insidedenver.com/news/1119secr3.shtml

by John Sanko
Secrets at Colorado's Statehouse?
You bet.
There always have been, and there always will be.
But things have changed dramatically from the days when lawmakers hid
behind
closed doors for political caucuses and committee hearings.
Laws today force meetings to be announced in advance and be open to the
public.
Records are being put on the Internet in growing numbers.
But the fight over information that is public -- and that which is hidden
--
continues. More battles likely will occur in the next few years, partly due
to efforts to increase security for government officials and the public.
Opponents of wider public access to government data often cite individual
rights to privacy.



Rocky Mountain News 11/19/00
Concealed-gun permits often secret
Officials disagree on whether lists of permit holders must be made
available
to public
http://www.insidedenver.com/news/1119guns2.shtml

by Kevin Vaughn
More than 9,100 Coloradans have a license to pack heat, and two-thirds of
the
state's sheriffs don't want you to know who they are.
Those sheriffs -- 41 of the 62 across the state -- relied on one
interpretation of Colorado's public records laws to deny public access to
the
identities of those who have obtained permits to carry concealed weapons.
Other sheriffs released printed lists of permit holders, basing their
decision on another interpretation of state law.
It's an issue that has confounded and confused lawmakers, concealed-weapons
permit holders and sheriffs alike.



Rocky Mountain News 11/19/00
Cities find Web pages more useful
http://www.insidedenver.com/news/1119riot3.shtml

by John C. Ensslin
The ashes of a Boulder riot in August had barely cooled when city officials
plastered color pictures of the revelers on the city's Web page.
Officials hoped that Web surfers would be able to identify some of the
rioters so police could arrest them. It's worked before.
"We made six arrests in the Halloween riot," city spokeswoman Jennifer Bray
said of the Oct. 30, 1999, disturbance that seriously injured a police
officer.
"I believe the photos on the Web site were a direct reason for those
arrests."
It worked again in August, leading to five more arrests, Bray said.
Fingering rioters is just one of many uses that Colorado cities, counties
and
state agencies have made of their Web pages.



Denver Post 11/19/00
Hopes dim for settlement of Indian trust lawsuit
http://www.denverpost.com/news/news1119b.htm

by Bill McAllister
Barely a month after Congress directed the InteWrior Department to settle
the
massive lawsuit over its 300,000 mismanaged Indian trust accounts, the
chances of an out-ofcourt resolution of the billion-dollar dispute have
faded
dramatically.
Treasury officials admitted last week that they had destroyed another four
boxes of documents related to the claims, a statement that infuriated
lawyers
for the Indians. The lawyers quickly threatened to reopen the first phase
of
the case.
"We're back at all-out war," said Dennis Gingold, the Washington lawyer who
has taken a lead role in pressing the case. Efforts to resolve the case out
of court have collapsed, said Gingold, who used to practice law in Denver.
Gingold disclosed that lawyers representing American Indians had reached an
agreement with the Interior Department on Aug. 14 that would have resolved
all the issues from the first phase of the case. In return, the government
would drop its appeal of the dispute to a federal court here in Washington
and begin to wrestle with the issue of how much damages the Indians are
due.



Los Angeles Times 11/19/00
Clinton Library shaping up
http://www.latimes.com/wires/wpolitics/20001119/tCB00V0206.html

by Peggy Harris
Associated Press
LITTLE ROCK--In the hours before dawn, 50 tons of President Clinton's
memorabilia were unloaded Sunday into an old auto dealership remodeled to
store the country's largest presidential collection.
The first shipment for the Clinton Presidential Library contained
paintings,
antiques, books, and gifts from the heads of state of foreign countries,
said
Skip Rutherford, coordinator of the privately funded $25 million project.
The gifts, which actually belong to the United States, have "high intrinsic
value and high diplomatic value," Rutherford said. "They are one of a
kind."
The first shipment arrived in six tractor-trailer trucks. Several others
will
follow until Clinton officially leaves the White House on Jan. 20.



Asbury Park Press 11/19/00
Ciba papers show possible health threats considered
http://www.app.com/news/app/story/0,2110,322284,00.html

by Jean Mikle
TOMS RIVER -- The documents are certainly tantalizing for those Dover
Township residents who have long thought the former Ciba-Geigy Corp. is
responsible for health problems here.
Internal company memorandums attached as exhibits to a lawsuit filed
Wednesday in Ocean County Superior Court appear to show Ciba employees were
at least aware of potential health and environmental contamination
connected
to waste-disposal practices at the Route 37 chemical plant.
The memorandums are attached to the latest lawsuit filed against Ciba and
United Water Toms River by lawyers Norman M. Hobbie, Angelo Cifaldi,
Michael
Gordon and Christopher Placitella.
"We have uncovered documents that reveal that the defendants had knowledge
of
air and water pollution for over 40 years," Gordon said of the papers
turned
over to the four lawyers over the last few months.
The suit was filed on behalf of 144 people who believe they have been
harmed
by contaminated water and air emanating from the Ciba plant, which was
placed
on the federal Superfund list in 1982.





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

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