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RAIN 12/22:Z-grams, slave ledger, £2 million
Dallas Morning News 12/21/00
Tech to add Zumwalt's personal files
Admiral's papers donated to school's Vietnam Center
http://www.dallasnews.com/texas_southwest/243294_zumwalt_21tex..html
by Scott Parks
The personal papers of the late Navy Adm. Elmo R. Zumwalt Jr. have been
donated to the Vietnam Center and Archive at Texas Tech University in
Lubbock.
Forty boxes of material - everything from film and photos to scientific
studies on the defoliant Agent Orange - arrived Wednesday morning on the Tech
campus.
Tech historians said the collection further enhances the Vietnam Center's
reputation as second only to the National Archives as a repository for
Vietnam-related documents.
New York Times 12/21/00
Using Technology to Preserve Art
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/21/technology/21HEAT.html
by Lisa Guernsey
ANYONE who has ventured to the attic to retrieve a shoe box of photographic
negatives has probably seen what havoc is wreaked by warm temperatures and
high humidity. The negatives become warped, waffled and unprintable, and the
images are lost.
Now imagine the dismay if the lost negatives are of renowned and priceless
images, the kind stored and displayed in museums.
To make sure that does not happen, museum conservators fight a constant
battle against changes in climate in an effort to keep photographs,
paintings, artifacts and manuscripts at exactly the right temperature and
humidity to avoid deterioration.
New York Times 12/21/00
Deal struck for N.J. Slave Ledger
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/nyregion/AP-Slave-Ledger.html
by Associated Press
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) -- A deed book from 1785 that contained records of slaves
being freed in New Jersey is back in the state after lawyers won a legal
battle set in motion when the ledger was offered on eBay last month.
The leather-bound book, considered significant because it helps document the
early abolitionist movement in southern New Jersey, will eventually be moved
to the state archives in Trenton as a result of the settlement reached
Wednesday.
Connecticut Post 12/21/00
Feds seize records
http://www.connpost.com/S-ASP-Bin/ContentFrmBldr.ASP?puid=6773&Indx=590937&Art
icle=ON
by Michael P. Mayko
Federal agents seized computers and paper documents from a prominent
Bridgeport law firm, the city's largest developer and a major architectural
firm in connection with an ongoing federal grand jury investigation in
Hartford.
Agents using warrants signed by Senior U.S. District Judge Ellen Bree Burns
in New Haven conducted the search and seizures early Tuesday morning.
No arrests have been made. The documents have been sealed from public view.
Bergen Record 12/21/00
Book with slave records returned to N.J.
http://www.bergen.com/region/ledger21200012216.htm
by Geoff Mulvihil
Associated Press
TRENTON -- A 1785 Burlington County deed book that may have been missing for
decades before it was offered on an eBay auction last month is back in New
Jersey.
An anonymous buyer has agreed to pay $3,000 for the ledger, then donate it to
Burlington County, said Roger Shatzkin, a spokesman for the state Attorney
General's Office.
The state had sued Charles and Valerie Mason of Newark, Del., for the return
of the book. The Masons say they bought the book from a junk dealer.
Fort Worth Star Telegram 12/21/00
Texas Tech gets Zumwalt war collection
http://www.star-telegram.com/news/doc/1047/1:METROB/1:METROB1220100.html
by Chris Vaughn
Historians from the Vietnam Center at Texas Tech University unloaded a
tractor-trailer Wednesday packed with a lifetime of papers, correspondence
and photos from the late Adm. Elmo R. Zumwalt Jr., one of the Vietnam War's
most intriguing characters.
Zumwalt, who died Jan. 2 at age 79, left his private collection to the
center, which he maintained close ties to since its inception in 1989.
Officials with the center will unveil some of the material today, including
Zumwalt's vast collection of papers related to Agent Orange, perhaps his
best-known legacy.
London Evening Standard 12/21/00
£2million ruin for liar Hamilton
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/dynamic/news/story.html?in_review_id=346315&in_r
eview_text_id=290574
by Patrick Sawer
Neil Hamilton today dramatically lost his appeal against his
cash-forquestions libel defeat and faces imminent bankruptcy after being
landed with £2 million costs.
The Master of the Rolls said the fact that Mohamed Fayed had used stolen
documents in the case would have made no difference to its outcome.
Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
Richmond, Va
pakurilecz@aol.com
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