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RAIN 12/21:Ireland, Georgia (not that one, the other), Czechs and Abilene



Sacramento Bee 12/20/00
Crop insurer to pay $10 million: U.S. alleges raisin claims inflated
http://www.sacbee.com/ib/news/ib_news01_20001220.html

by Denny Walsh
In the biggest settlement of its kind, the nation's largest provider of
federally financed crop insurance has agreed to pay the government $10
million to settle allegations of inflated claims supported by false
documents.
Prosecutors say that Rain and Hail Insurance Service Inc., in its handling of
crop damage claims, falsely represented to the Federal Crop Insurance Corp.
that San Joaquin Valley raisins were ruined by rain in 1994. Heavy rains
occurred that year during the critical period when raisins were drying on the
ground.



Lubbock Avalanche-Journal 12/19/00
Congress allots $461,000 for Vietnam Archive
http://www.lubbockonline.com/stories/121900/loc_121900037.shtml

by Michael Gaffney
Texas Tech's Vietnam Archive will begin putting its resources on the Internet
with the help of $461,000 from the federal government.
The goal, known as the Virtual Vietnam Archives Project, is to give the world
access to the more than 4 million pages of documentation generated during the
Vietnam War, said James Reckner, director of Tech's Vietnam Center.



Jewish Telegraphic Agency 12/12/00
Czech officials turn stolen papers over to Dutch Jewish Community
http://208.215.16.56/index.exe?00121210

by Magnus Bennett
PRAGUE, Dec. 12 (JTA) - Czech officials have presented the Dutch state
archives with Jewish documents the Nazis stole from Amsterdam during World
War II.



The Irish Times 12/0/00
Archive on Rising to become available
http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/ireland/2000/1220/hom2.htm

by Frank McNally
A huge archive of eyewitness accounts from the years immediately before and
after the 1916 Rising will be available to the public next year. They have
been locked away for 50 years.
The documents, based on interviews with those in the independence struggle
from 1913 to 1921, follow a 10-year investigation by Defence Forces
archivists ordered by the Taoiseach, Eamon de Valera, in 1947.
The Bureau of Military History, as the collection is called, comprised 1,800
individual statements and some 36,000 pages.



Providence Journal 12/20/00
New quarters needed for historical archives
http://www.projo.com/cgi-bin/story.pl/towns/04719381.htm

by Alisha A. Pina
LITTLE COMPTON -- For the last two years, the Little Compton Historical
Society has raised money to build an archival storage building for several
thousand items that date back to as early as the 17th century.
Members of the society hope its recent campaign, a mailing to all members of
the community for donations, will raise the remaining $103,000 for the
project.
"The entire collection fascinates people," said Helen Bridge, who is part of
the society's building committee. "It's a collection that can never be
assembled again."
LCHS, which was founded in 1937 to preserve landmarks and historical items,
said its collection has "outgrown the storage capacity" and is "suffering
from the detrimental effects of temperature variations and the high humidity"
of the coastal environment.



The Daily Herald 12/19/00
BYU donates documents to Polish government archive
http://www.heraldextra.com/dh/dhtoday.nsf/LocalRegional/FE2F3C1DDEACAAB7872569

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by Amy K. Stewart
PROVO -- BYU is giving the people of Poland 93 carefully wrapped Christmas
presents today.
Historic manuscripts from the distinguished Potocki family -- that was
scattered during the upheaval of World War II -- will be presented to the
Polish government in a special ceremony with representatives of the LDS
Church in Poland today.
The papers have been owned by BYU since 1985, when BYU officials purchased
them from a book dealer in Switzerland.



Abilene Reporter-News 12/20/00
Abilene Police Museum opens its doors
Patrons can view history dating back to 1881
http://www.texnews.com/1998/2000/local/police1220.html

by John Starbuck
What kind of pistol was wielded by John J. Clinton, an Abilene police chief
known for clearing the bars on New Year's Eve by firing his weapon in the
air? How long was Bernice "Hattie" Buster, the city's only female police
chief, in office?
History buffs and amateur sleuths longing to know the answers can find them
at the Abilene Police Department's museum in the Abilene/Taylor County Law
Enforcement Center, 450 Pecan St. A grand opening is planned at 10:30 a.m.
today on the first floor on the police department's side of the building.



The Tennessean 12/20/00
Secrets in settlement may violate public records law
http://www.tennessean.com/local/archives/00/12/01423691.shtml?Element_ID=14236

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by Warren Duzak
Lebanon -- The city's cost of settling a claim to avoid being sued by the
widow of a Lebanon man who died in a botched police raid may never be known
if city officials have their way.
Lebanon City Attorney Peggy Williams said yesterday that she will not reveal
the terms of the mediated settlement in the death of John Adams despite the
state's public records law.
Adams, 64, was killed Oct. 4 when police staged a drug raid at the wrong
house.


Radio Free Europe 12/20/00
FIRE DESTROYS GEORGIAN AUDIT CHAMBER RECORDS
http://www.rferl.org/newsline/2-tca.html

(scroll down the page to see the story)


The Globe Gazette 12/20/00
Use of fake records to get Ids rises
http://www.globegazette.com/news/2000/122000/week3/20/Ni2.shtml

by Deb Nicklay
OSAGE - Mitchell County officials have confirmed that a dozen men in this
county illegally have tried to obtain state identification cards by using
bogus Social Security cards and birth certificates.
Over the past four months, according to Assistant Mitchell County Attorney
Aaron Murphy, 12 men have been jailed for using false documents to obtain
identification cards in order to find jobs in the area.
All those arrested are Hispanic and have families in Mexico. All were charged
with three counts: fraudulent use of a birth certificate, forgery and
tampering with records. They have been offered agreements on lesser charges,
Murphy said, and have pleaded to fraudulent use of a birth certificate, a
serious misdemeanor.



Quad City Times 12/20/00
Money turns up for records backlog
http://www.qctimes.com/local/STORY5.html

by Marc Chase
Scott County District Court employees soon will be able to correct some
public access problems with criminal court files now that state officials
have found the money to hire more office workers, the county clerk of court
said Tuesday.
The state court administrator's office lifted a hiring freeze on court clerk
office jobs Monday afternoon after hearing complaints about staff shortages
from county courthouses statewide.



New York Times 12/20/00
Clinton issues new rules to protect medical privacy
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/20/national/20CND-PRIV.html?pagewanted=all

by Robert Pear
W ASHINGTON, Dec. 20 -- President Clinton issued sweeping new rules today to
protect the privacy of medical records by requiring doctors and hospitals to
get consent from patients before disclosing health information.
"The new rules we release today protect the medical records of virtually
every American," Mr. Clinton said at the Department of Health and Human
Services. "They represent the most sweeping privacy protections ever
written."
The new rules, completing four years of work, will affect virtually every
doctor, patient, hospital, pharmacy and health insurance plan in the country,
setting the first comprehensive federal standards for transactions now
regulated by a jumble of state laws.



Yomiuri Shimbun 12/21/00
TSE to accept English documents
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/newse/20001221wo12.htm

Starting in January, foreign firms will be able to prepare in English
documents that are required when they apply to have their stocks listed on
the Tokyo Stock Exchange, the exchange announced Tuesday.



Korea Herald 12/21/00
'Parents helped forge college entrance papers'
http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/html_dir/2000/12/21/200012210043.asp

Prosecutors investigating college entrance irregularities yesterday secured
depositions from several parents that they commissioned brokers to forge
documents so their children could be admitted to local universities under the
status of overseas Koreans.
During overnight questionings that began Tuesday evening, the parents
reportedly told prosecutors that they paid brokers tens of thousands of won
in "admission fees" for bogus documents.



Washington Post 12/20/00
A Brush with History
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29453-2000Dec19.html

by Ken Ringle
RICHMOND -- Robert Knox Sneden was the most anonymous of men, which may be
why he's now getting famous.
The taciturn, Nova Scotia-born Civil War soldier never married, died
childless -- and apparently friendless -- and seems to have accomplished
almost nothing remarkable in his life aside from chronicling his
undistinguished career in the Union Army.
But his exhaustively detailed personal history of the war, exhumed several
years ago from a storage unit in Arizona and a Connecticut bank vault, is now
being called the most important Civil War memoir since Ulysses S. Grant's.


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

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