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RAIN 03/03 Weekly Update: Sunday Miscellany (11)



Cincinnati Post 03/01/02
Chabot: persistent watchdog
WASHINGTON - The tug-of-war that started last summer between Ohio
Congressman Steve Chabot and the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights is still going strong.
The Cincinnati Republican recently fired off an eight-page letter to the commission in which he demanded to know whether the agency has been shredding documents that he says should be preserved under federal law.
http://www.cincypost.com/2002/mar/01/colins030102.html


Detroit Free Press 03/01/02
U.S. keeps spy ink a secret
BY MURRAY DUBIN
KNIGHT RIDDER NEWSPAPERS
WASHINGTON -- Is a secret, 85-year-old formula for invisible ink an important tool in our war on terrorism?
Apparently, the Central Intelligence Agency thinks so. It has persuaded a federal judge to keep secret classified documents describing World War I-era formulas for invisible ink.
http://www.freep.com/news/nw/dink1_20020301.htm



San Francisco Chronicle 03/02/02
A history lesson for historian
Archivist refutes claims of prizewinning author
Sam McManis
Martinez -- Don't let her lilting voice and prim, schoolmarmish demeanor fool you. You mess with Betty Maffei, you dis her volunteer staff at Contra Costa Historical Society, you have the temerity to cast aspersions on their filing acumen, and you're in for a
world of hurt, my friend.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/03/02/MN13172.DTL



The Salt Lake Tribune 03/02/02
Senate Endorses Removal of Personal Data From Divorce Records
BY WYNNE PARRY
In the hopes of preventing identity theft, the state Senate passed legislation Friday requiring courts to remove personal information from divorce documents available to the public.
http://www.sltrib.com/03022002/utah/715811.htm


The Times 03/02/02
Couple set up forger's factory for immigrants
By Tim Reid
A PRINTER and his wife turned their home into a highly sophisticated forger’s workshop that produced tens of thousands of bogus birth certificates, academic qualifications and driving licences for illegal immigrants.
When police raided the house at Thamesmead, southeast London, they discovered computers and specialised equipment in an upstairs room which gave Bais Sulaiman and his wife, Wuroala, the ability to provide almost any kind of document or plastic card. They also found more than 13,000 forged documents.
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-222701,00.html


AAP 03/02/02
HMAS Sydney cover-up alleged

OFFICIAL records of distress signals picked up from HMAS Sydney on the night she sank were altered in an apparent bid to protect senior Defence officials, the Western Australian parliament has been told.
Documents tabled in Parliament by Greens MLC Jim Scott included a statement from retired RAAF flying instructor Eric Cooper, 86, who said he relayed signals from a ship at sea on November 19, 1941, the night the Sydney sank.
http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,3869977%255E2761,00.html



Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 03/02/02
Legislators to publicly detail expenses
By John M.R. Bull, Post-Gazette Harrisburg Correspondent
HARRISBURG -- A new rule covering disclosure of how state House members spend tax dollars on expenses went into effect yesterday, and the more-detailed financial records should be available for inspection at the end of the month.
Under a new rule passed in late January, the House decided to make public the vouchers, receipts, invoices and other financial documents that detail exactly what is paid for with tax dollars.
http://www.post-gazette.com/localnews/20020302openrecords0302p8.asp


Stamford Advocate 03/02/02
IRS lien could endanger plans for library work
By Jonathan Lucas
NORWALK -- A federal tax lien slapped on the East Norwalk Improvement Association could jeopardize its proposed $1.8 million renovation of the East Norwalk Library.
The record keeping and finances of the improvement association, which oversees the management of the library, is being scrutinized by the Democratic majority of East Norwalk's Third Taxing District.
http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/local/scn-sa...5mar02.story?coll=stam%2Dnews%2Dlocal%2Dheadlines


The Times-Union 03/02/02
Antiques aficionado's collection is all Troy built
By TANIA GARCIA de ROSIER
TROY -- William Skerritt's studio is bulging with history.
Ensconced in bell jars and glass-enclosed shelves lie a hundred years of measuring technology: surveying tools, compasses, telescopic levels, weights and scales. Add to that the hundreds of pieces of business documents, drawings, photographs and catalogs, and the converted bedroom in his historic Troy home becomes a museum of industrial art with Skerritt the selfmade scholar and curator.
http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyKey=78169&BCCode=E&newsdate=3/2/2002


New York Times 03/03/02
An Ex-Convict, a Hit Album, an Ending Fit for Hollywood
By BERNARD WEINRAUB
LOS ANGELES, March 2 — On a mid-September day in 1959, an inmate in the Mississippi State Penitentiary named James Carter led some of his fellow prisoners in singing "Po Lazarus," a bluesy, melancholy old work song about a man who is hunted and gunned
down by a sheriff with a .44.
In the course of a long, hard life that followed, Mr. Carter, a sharecropper's son, forgot about that day, the song and the man who captured it on tape, Alan Lomax.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/03/arts/music/03SING.html



Jefferson City News-Tribune 03/03/02
Exceptions to governmental openness proposed in name of security
By SCOTT CHARTON
Associated Press Writer
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- For years legislators, citizens and newspapers have beaten back proposals to weaken Missouri's Sunshine Law, which requires public business to be done in public.
But in the six months since the Sept. 11 attacks, Missouri lawmakers have been seriously considering adding exceptions to the law, in the name of heading off terrorist acts.
http://www.newstribune.com/stories/030302/sta_0303020005NA.asp





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