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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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