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RAIN 05/13: Weekend Update Part 1



E&P Online 5/10/01
Oregon Senate may restrict access to 911 calls
http://www.mediainfo.com/ephome/news/newshtm/stories/051001n2.htm

Citing the press' role to check power vested in law enforcement agencies, The
Radio-Television News Directors Association (RTNDA) asked lawmakers in Oregon
to reject a bill exempting audio recordings of 911 calls from the state's
public records law.
The pending bill, which was passed by the Oregon House, is now under
consideration by the state Senate.



Associated Press 5/11/01
Congress worried about FBI computer
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010511/us/mcveigh_fbi_computer_3.html

by Pete Yost
WASHINGTON (AP) - The FBI's computer system, which didn't contain thousands
of pages of evidence that should have been turned over to Timothy McVeigh's
lawyers, has been drawing scrutiny from Congress because it is so antiquated.
The House Judiciary Committee just last month wrote FBI director Louis Freeh
expressing concern about the age and capabilities of the system.



Chicago Tribune 5/11/01
Hebron trustee indicted over files
Charges allege documents taken from Village Hall
http://www.chicago.tribune.com/version1/article/0,1575,SAV-0105110326,00.html

by Ruth E. Igoe
A Hebron trustee who is locked in a feud with the village president was
indicted Thursday on charges of tampering with public documents.



The Advocate 5/11/01
Fired man claims records shredded
http://www.theadvocate.com/news/story.asp?StoryID=21428

by Tom Guarisco
Local labor union officials ordered the shredding of documents after an
employee they fired sued them, the man claims in court documents.
Kenneth Puckett, a veteran maritime trainer dismissed in November, asked a
state court to block defendants from destroying any more documents relevant
to a lawsuit he filed April 2 in state district court in Baton Rouge.



Akron Beacon Journal 5/9/01
Hywet museum reduces staffing
http://www.ohio.com/dist/ns/011070.htm

by Paula Schleis
Gas prices approaching $2. Companies laying off. A nervous stock market.
To officials at Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens, that means there will be less
fun-money to go around, so the historic Akron landmark is doing some
belt-tightening.



Irish Times 5/11/01
Immigration research online is plain sailing
http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/finance/2001/0511/seven15.htm

The first immigrant to set foot on Ellis Island was Annie Moore, a 13-yearold
girl who sailed across the Atlantic on a ship called Nevada from the port of
Queenstown in Cork. She landed on January 2nd, 1892, and a statue at the
Ellis Island Immigration Museum commemorates her.



Ottawa Citizen 5/11/01
Federal privacy commissioner warns of 'informational rape'
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/national/010511/5055288.html

by Jim Bronskill with files from Janice Tibbetts
The federal privacy watchdog has waded into a bitter dispute over the prime
minister's secret agenda books, charging yesterday that throwing them open
would be "tantamount to informational rape."



Privacy Commissioner of Canada 5/10/01
News  Release
http://www.privcom.gc.ca/media/nr-c/02_05_b_010510_e.asp

Ottawa, May 10, 2001 - The Privacy Commissioner of Canada, George Radwanski,
sent the following letter today to Information Commissioner John Reid:
Dear Commissioner Reid:
After a great deal of reflection, I have concluded that it is appropriate and
necessary to share with you my concerns regarding your approach to the matter
of the Prime Minister's agendas.



Associated Press 5/10/01
Notes by Lincoln, Boot auctioned
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010510/us/autograph_auction_2.html

by Sara Kugler
NEW YORK (AP) - The neat, slanted handwriting of John Wilkes Booth sold at
auction Thursday for more than the inky, flat script of the president he
assassinated.



New York Times 5/10/01
U.S. admits failure to share evidence in McVeigh's trial
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/11/national/11EXEC.html?searchpv=nytToday

by David Johnston and Christoper Marquis
Washington, May 10 -- The F.B.I. has discovered thousands of pages of
interview reports and other materials about the Oklahoma City bombing that
the government failed to turn over to a lawyer for Timothy J. McVeigh,
Justice Department officials said today.



New York Times 5/11/01
Judges seek answers on computer code as free speech
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/11/technology/11CODE.html

by Amy Harmon
In what may signal a heightened significance for a case testing the
constitutionality of a 1998 digital copyright law, a panel of appeals court
judges has asked both sides of a case to answer a list of 11 questions on
whether computer code can qualify as free speech.


New York Times 5/11/01
Museum bids for Cass Gilbert Plans
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-History-for-Sale.html?searchpv=apo

nline

Associated Press
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) -- Eight decades after the state hired Cass Gilbert to
design its gold-domed Capitol, it's finally getting its hands on the original
plans -- and they're costing a chunk.
Bidders ran up the price of the architect's pencil and ink drawings of the
Capitol to nearly $13,000 Thursday, more than twice the estimated value.



Associated Press 5/11/01
Report: Israel documents confiscated
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010511/wl/israel_nuclear_1.html

by Jack Katzenell
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel's State Archives confiscated papers relating to the
country's nuclear secrets from the widow of a former prime minister while she
was out of the country, a newspaper reported Friday.
Alarmed by persistent leaks of nuclear secrets to the media, the Defense
Ministry ordered the confiscation of documents belonging to late Prime
Minister Levy Eshkol, the daily Haaretz said.



Moscow Times 5/11/01
Russia slams sale of Gagarin report
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2001/05/11/014.html

by Robin Munro
The sale of an official report signed by the world's first cosmonaut Yury
Gagarin 40 years ago is raising questions here about its authenticity and
calls to bring it back to Russia.
The typed report is dated April 15, 1961, three days after Gagarin's
108-minute flight in the Vostok spaceship, and fetched $171,000 from an
unidentified U.S. buyer at a Christie's auction in New York on Wednesday.



Seattle Times 5/11/01
Police sued over WTO memo
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/134294251_aclu11m.html

by Ian Ith
The American Civil Liberties Union yesterday sued the Seattle Police
Department again for its handling of the 1999 WTO turmoil, demanding that the
city pay money for failing to disclose a key document about the "no-protest
zone" that cordoned off downtown.





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

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