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RAIN 01/07 Weekend Update Part 3:Chaucer, Clinton, and Elian



The Telegraph 01/07/01
Chaucer parchment 'was stolen'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=000140326706927&rtmo=lvPQouAt&atmo=lvPQouAt&p

g=/et/01/1/7/nchau07.html

by Jenny Booth
ACADEMICS who have spent 10 years examining the two earliest known
manuscripts of Geoffrey Chaucer's medieval masterpiece The Canterbury Tales
believe that they were written on stolen government parchment.
A team from De Montfort University, Leicester, has uncovered evidence that in
his last months the great poet paid a group of moonlighting government
scribes to make two copies of the tales, one a lavish illuminated manuscript
fit for the king and the other a master copy.



Arkansas Democrat-Gazette 01/07/01
Clinton's 4th load of records land in LR
http://www.ardemgaz.com/Sun/ark/B1xlibrary7.html

by Elisa Crouch
President Clinton's version of a U-Haul truck emerged from the sky Saturday
afternoon as a growing speck with 85 tons of papers and gifts aboard.
On the ground, a military operation was under way to unload the
sausage-shaped C-5 Galaxy cargo jet as efficiently as possible, and transport
the papers and gifts to the Clinton Presidential Materials Project on LaHarpe
Boulevard.
"Beautiful," Master Sgt. Scott Martin said under his breath, as the plane
touched the airstrip shortly before 3 p.m.



Washington Post 01/07/01
Collector preservers the rough drafts of inaugral history
Newspapers date to time of Washington
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27751-2001Jan6.html

by Linda Wheeler
Presidential inaugurations come and go. As important as each is, memories of
them fade as the president gets on with the important duties of running the
country. For Mark E. Mitchell, however, those forgotten oath-of-office events
are as exciting as the day they occurred.
Mitchell collects newspapers that tell the inaugural story. He has most all
of them, beginning with George Washington's swearing-in at Federal Hall in
New York.
"The newspaper is a time machine, a portal to our past," Mitchell said, as he
scanned the details of Washington's inauguration. "It's America's history, a
history you can touch."




Richmond Times Dispatch 01/07/01
Gertting records getting easier
New site, computers simplifying process
http://www.timesdispatch.com/vametro/MGBEYXU2OHC.html

by Tammie Smith
The line around midday Friday was about seven or eight people deep at the
state Office of Vital Records and Health Statistics, where people get
certified copies of birth, death, marriage and divorce records.
Twenty minutes later, maybe even sooner, they were gone, but new faces had
taken their places. They got what they came for and were on their way as
quickly as those before them.
Chalk it up to progress. For six years, the office has been busy transferring
paper birth records filed in hard-bound books by year and month to computer,
where they can be accessed by simply typing in a name and birth date.



ABC News 01/07/01
Lawyer: INS workers told to destory Elian documents
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/ap20010106_1387.html

Associated Press
MIAMI (AP) _ An attorney for Immigration and Naturalization Service employees
said in a deposition that his clients were told to destroy or conceal
documents that contained "anything derogatory" about the Elian Gonzalez case.
Donald Appignani made the statement while testifying for a federal lawsuit
filed by Elian"s Miami relatives against the INS and Attorney General Janet
Reno claiming the April 22 armed raid that removed the boy from their home
violated their constitutional rights



The Star-Ledger 01/07/01
Access to records on crime files
http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/index.ssf?/jersey/ledger/11f5ab3.html

by Robert Schwaneberg
After months of behind-the-scenes negotiations and compromises, a myriad of
objections to a bill that would open government records to public scrutiny
has been reduced to just one.
But that one dispute -- about when the public can see law enforcement files
that have been sealed -- threatens to doom the legislation. New Jersey's
prosecutors are insisting on amendments that are unacceptable to the bill's
sponsor and key supporters.
A meeting Friday between Sen. Robert Martin (R-Morris), the bill's sponsor,
and First Assistant Attorney General Paul Zoubek failed to produce a
compromise.



New York Post 01/07/01
Suit: INS was told to destroy Elian info
http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/20648.htm

by Malcolm Balfour
MIAMI - Immigration and Naturalization Service workers in Miami were
allegedly ordered to destroy documents and e-mail related to the Elian
Gonzalez case, according to court documents.
"This is a major break in the case," said lawyer Ronald Guralnick, who is
representing the tug-of-war tot's Florida family in a lawsuit against the
federal government.
The coverup charge was leveled by Donald Appignani, a lawyer who represents
INS workers in labor matters and who approached Guralnick with information.
In a deposition last month, Appignani testified that his clients, the INS
workers, told him: "The U.S. government is breaking the law."



Foster's Daily Democrat 01/07/01
Privacy vs. right to know: New bills tightening access to records worry
watchdog groups
http://www.fosters.com/news_2001a/jan_01/07/do0107b.htm

by Michael Gillis
Buried among hundreds of bills being drafted by state legislators this year
are nearly a dozen that aim to boost privacy and constrict the flow of
personal information.
But even before those bills take shape, concerns are being raised about their
breadth and intent.
A handful of legislators maintain that rights of privacy have eroded over
time, a disturbing predicament they hope to reverse. Among the information
they intend to protect are financial and medical records, driver's license
data, preliminary audit notes and interviews, and state agency documents.
"It's absolutely ludicrous how little privacy exists in this country today,
primarily because of the computer," said state Rep. Howard Dickinson,
R-Conway. "It's remarkable how much freedom we have given up."



Salt Lake Tribune 01/07/01
Leavitt wants funds for official historian
http://www.sltrib.com/01072001/utah/60594.htm

by Dan Harrie
The World According to Gov. Mike Leavitt, Volume 1.
It's not a title likely to appear anytime soon on bookstore shelves, but
there could be some forthcoming installments. Perhaps an official recounting
of the Olympics bid scandal.
Leavitt wants to add a full-time historian to his staff and is asking the
Legislature to approve the position at $56,000 annually. The 49-year-old
chief executive, a master of public-image molding, intends the job to be a
permanent fixture of his office for the four years of his third term.
"It's keeping footprints," says Leavitt spokeswoman Vicki Varela. "It's about
what this administration is doing [and] how we're putting the pieces
together.



St. Petersburg Times 01/07/01
Low-tech Congress finds a way to answer e-mails
http://www.sptimes.com/News/010701/Worldandnation/Low_tech_Congress_fin.shtml

by John Balz
WASHINGTON -- An institution as old and decorous as Congress has a difficult
time adapting to the latest technological wizardry. So it is a matter of real
significance that the Senate is about to take advantage of an innovative
computer software that sorts, reads and responds to constituent e-mails
without a human being touching the keyboard.
The system known as EchoMail, which became available to Senate offices this
year, represents a major technological breakthrough for Congress and a
belated recognition by congressional leaders that more than 10-million
e-mails are being sent and received on Capitol Hill each month.





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

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