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RAIN 01/07 Weekend Update Part 1:New czar, spam, incest in the archives



New York Time 01/05/01
Clinton creates post to protect nation's secrets
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/05/politics/05INTE.html

by James Risen
WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 - President Clinton has issued an order reorganizing the
government's counterintelligence efforts, creating a new czar with a broad
mandate to identify potential security threats and vulnerabilities,
administration officials said today.
The directive, signed in the waning days of Mr. Clinton's administration,
creates a National Counterintelligence Executive charged with bringing a
forward-looking, post-cold-war mentality to counterintelligence. Officials
say the post is designed as the counterintelligence equivalent to the
nation's drug czar.



New York Times 01/05/01
AOL sues over sex-related unsolicited e-mail
http://www.nytimes.com/cnet/CNET_0_4_4361564_00.html

by Stefanie Olsen
CNET News.com
In a crackdown on spam, America Online is suing a company that owns and
operates pornographic Web sites, accusing it of sending junk email to AOL
members.
"Legally the lawsuit is important because it establishes liability for an
adult Web site--that they are causing spam to be sent or are knowingly in a
conspiracy with the spammers. This makes them negligent in their no-spam
policy," said Nicholas Graham, an AOL spokesman.
In addition to naming the two owners of Cyber Entertainment Networks, John
Bennett and Joseph Elkind, the lawsuit names eight employees and 29
Webmasters under contract to promote the sites. Lawyers are in the process of
serving subpeonas related to the lawsuit, which was filed in U.S. District
Court in Virginia late last month.



Philadelphia Inquirer 12/31/00
Efforts begin to preserve historic early recordings
http://inq.philly.com/content/inquirer/2000/12/31/national/TAPES31.htm

by Carl Hartman
Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Long before the dawn of computers and television, Americans
gathered around their radios for entertainment, listening to dramas like One
Man's Family and variety programs like The Rudy Vallee Show.
Some of those classic sounds are in danger of vanishing as the tapes on which
they are preserved deteriorate.
The Library of Congress has allocated about $833,000 for a project to restore
the tapes. They include recordings of One Man's Family and others, such as
George Gershwin's performance on Vallee's show and Arturo Toscanini's
symphony concerts.



New York Times 01/05/01
Experts see online speech case as bellwether
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/05/technology/05CYBERLAW.html?pagewanted=all

by Carl S. Kaplan
Now that antidiscrimination groups in France have won a partial victory over
Yahoo Inc. by pressuring the California-based company to drop auctions of
Nazi artifacts from its English-language Web site, civil libertarians and
other lawyers fear that other groups will be emboldened to file lawsuits in
foreign courts seeking to censor online speech flowing from America.
Yahoo's aboutface "will certainly encourage litigants and governments in
other countries to go after American service providers" who transmit content
that is protected in the United States but offensive and possibly illegal
abroad, warned Barry Steinhardt, associate director of the American Civil
Liberties Union. That's dangerous, he said, because "we could easily wind up
with a lowest common denominator standard for protected speech on the Net."




Common Place September 2000
Tales from the Vault: Incest in the Archives
http://www.common-place.org/vol-01/no-01/tales/

by Irene Quenzler Brown and Richard D. Brown
Thirteen-year-old Betsy Wheeler and her younger brother returned home on the
afternoon of June 8, 1805. Earlier that day, enraged by a fight with his
wife, Hannah, Ephraim Wheeler had commanded the children to leave with him.
Now Betsy and the boy had come back unexpectedly. Betsy brought her father's
newest orders that on the next day he planned to leave permanently with the
children. The bruised and tearful child also privately told her mother that
her father had raped her. Hannah asked her brother-in-law to go for the
Justice of the Peace. The long, frightful day ended with Ephraim Wheeler's
arrest. With her husband in jail, he could no longer threaten Hannah and her
children.



Binghampton Press 01/05/01
Tier woman wins adoption records case
http://www.binghamtonpress.com/binghamtonnews/local/Frnews2.html

Staff and Wire Reports
ALBANY - A Broome County woman who gave her baby up for adoption in 1978 has
apparently won the right to let her child know about several serious family
medical conditions.
According to court papers, the woman wants to tell her son about his birth
parents' predisposition to conditions including alcoholism, degenerative
arthritis, stroke, cancer and heart disease.
The woman, identified only as "Rosemarie" to protect her identity and that of
her child, initially lost a court decision on the matter. Broome County
Family Court Judge Herbert Ray ruled that the section of a 1994 state law
allowing for the unsealing of adoption records in some cases applies only to
petitions filed by children seeking to know more about their biological
parents.



Houston Chronicle 01/05/01
Media want court documents filed in slayings made public
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/metropolitan/788222

Associated Press
DALLAS -- The Irving Police Department is refusing to release court documents
regarding the capital murder warrants issued for seven escaped convicts
charged with killing an Irving police officer, prompting several media
organizations, including The Associated Press, to file Texas Open Records
requests.



Las Vegas Sun
Investigative team to see if documents violated laws
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/lv-gov/2001/jan/04/511255700.html

by Jeff German
A team of federal investigators is expected in Las Vegas next month to begin
probing whether federal laws were broken in the drafting of Department of
Energy documents recommending Yucca Mountain as the nation's high-level
nuclear waste dump.
Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., who requested the investigation, told the Sun this
morning that the DOE's inspector general, Gregory Friedman, is "assembling a
team" to come to Las Vegas.



Morning Journal 01/05/01
Documents detail Urbin spending
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=1244995&BRD=1699&PAG=461&dept_id=463

71&rfi=6

AVON LAKE - With only about two weeks until the start of his trial, Avon Lake
Mayor Vince Urbin seems to have gained at least a temporary advantage in an
ongoing duel of court document filings
On Tuesday, attorneys for Urbin filed documents in Lorain County Common Pleas
Court listing receipts and other records which appear to answer for $2,433 of
the $2,677 that prosecutors allege was stolen from Mayor's Ball Inc.
The receipts and other records were from at least 13 stores in Lorain County
and western Cuyahoga County where Urbin's wife, Evelyn, reportedly bought
supplies for the mayor's annual benefits between 1998 and 2000.



BBC News 01/05/01
Workers sacked over 'lewd' e-mails
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_1101000/1101750.stm

A leading insurance company has sacked 10 people and suspended at least 77
over the distribution of "lewd" e-mails, including one featuring cartoon
character Bart Simpson.
An internal investigation was launched after a member of staff at the Royal
and Sun Alliance in Liverpool complained about an offensive e-mail,
reportedly showing the character from the hit US cartoon series The Simpsons
in a sexual clinch.
It led to the uncovering of other doctored images, which are believed to have
included one of Kermit the Frog, star of the Muppets TV programme, and
another of a donkey.



The Indian Express 01/05/01
UAE bans Indian sailors with old travel documents
http://www.indian-express.com/ie/daily/20010105/ina05060.html

MUMBAI, JAN 3: Jobs of a few thousand seafarers are likely to be affected
after the Central Immigration Department in Dubai decided to ban Indian crew
members from travelling on old seaman book from this year.
The matter came to the fore after several shipping agents in Dubai informed
the National Union of Seafarers of India (NUSI) in Mumbai when immigration
clearance was being refused to some vessels in the past two days.


(for the following story you will have to scroll way down the website's page)
Cananews 01/05/01
Dominica bill allows computer documents as evidence in court
http://www.cananews.com/news.shtml

Roseau, Dominica, CANA - New legislation was passed in the Dominica
parliament Wednesday to allow computer records to be accepted in court as
evidence.




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

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