From: skunk-works-digest-owner@mail.orst.edu To: skunk-works-digest@mail.orst.edu Subject: Skunk Works Digest V5 #254 Reply-To: skunk-works-digest@mail.orst.edu Errors-To: skunk-works-digest-owner@mail.orst.edu Precedence: bulk Skunk Works Digest Saturday, 29 April 1995 Volume 05 : Number 254 In this issue: Re: Ron's jpegs John Andrews/Testor, Inc. Detail on Executive Order See the end of the digest for information on subscribing to the skunk-works or skunk-works-digest mailing lists and on how to retrieve back issues. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: czbb062 Date: Fri, 28 Apr 1995 11:50:11 -0500 (CDT) Subject: Re: Ron's jpegs Bill Coss wrote: I have not been able to find the jpegs of Ron Schweikert's slides. I have checked the ftp site several times and can't seem to locate them. Any hints. Thanks, Bill There are 7 jpegs (1024x768): atease.jpg headon.jpg night.jpg parked1.jpg parked2.jpg runup.jpg pmrunup.jpt and bldg.gif (640x480) They are in /mailing-lists/skunk-works/pic Michael Eisenstadt (czbb062@access.texas.gov) ------------------------------ From: kuryakin@halcyon.com (Illya Kuryakin) Date: Fri, 28 Apr 1995 19:43:33 -0500 Subject: John Andrews/Testor, Inc. John Andrews, of Testor, Inc. models fame, is currently in the hospital in CA due to a Stroke he suffered Wednesday evening. He was responsible for models ranging from the first U2 model to the current crop of speculative kits. Latest update: John Andrews is currently in: Pomerado Hospital 15615 Pomerado Road Poway, CA 92064 Hospital phone# 619-485-6511 Jim Goodall just talked to the floor... he's sleeping right now "much improved". He'll also going to San Diego on Wednesday and will see him early Thursday of this coming week... and he'll keep me updated. Anyone who knows John, please send him a card. Tuesday surgery for prostrate, found bladder cancer. Removed most of bladder. Stroke was Wednesday night. Currently he seems to be responding well to care and medications. He is alert, though he cannot talk. That's it for now... somebody post this on whatever usenet groups are appropriate. Thanks, Rick Pavek kuryakin@arn.net Illya Kuryakin "HA!!" U.N.C.L.E. Network Services Ruby kuryakin@halcyon.com Galactic Gumshoe They told me to put a disclaimer here. And _I_ run the place. :} ------------------------------ From: kuryakin@arn.net (Illya Kuryakin) Date: Fri, 28 Apr 1995 20:00:17 -0500 Subject: Detail on Executive Order CLINTON: DECLASSIFY DOCUMENTS By Ann Devroy Washington Post WASHINGTON - President Clinton yesterday issued an executive order aimed at opening government's oldest secrets to public view, and both reducing the number of documents made secret and shortening the number of years they remain classified. The primary element of the order is the automatic declassification without review of most documents that are 25 years old or older. Previously, documents remained classified indefinitely. Now, unless the document fits into a group of narrow exceptions, it will automatically be open to public view. The order also puts a 10-year-limit on how long documents remain classified, requiring that after that period they become public unless a review determines they should not be. A number of other steps - less substantive and called mostly rhetorical by outside experts - also puts the Clinton White House on the side of quicker, easier declassification. "This order strikes an appropriate balance," Clinton said in a statement accompanying the order. "On the one hand, it will sharply reduce the permitted level of secrecy within our government, making available...documents of premanent historic value." On the other, he said, it also enables government to safeguard the secrets necessary to protect national security. Citing his order as historic, Clinton listed as "firsts" that classifiers will have to justify what they classify, that employees will be expected to challenge improper classification and be protected from retribution, and that "hundreds of millions of pages of information" classified in the past 50 years will be automatically declassified and released. The order establishes an interagency appeals panel to hear challenges to classification, specifies sanctions for overclassification and establishes an advisory council outside the government to recommend systematic declassification. The order comes after a two-year struggle among agencies and departments and outside groups that were presented with Clinton's proposals early in his tenure to meet a campaign pledge to make government less secretive. A draft executive order, circulating among agencies last April, met what one offical called resistance with the intelligence community and complaints from outside groups that said it did not go far enough. A senior administration offical said yesterday that it took "a year of negotiation, lawyering, negotiation and arguement" to produce the final result. That result was lauded, in one major respect, by outsiders who press for less automatice secrecy, particularly over the government's historical records, many of which they say should not have been classified secret to begin with. Keeping information secret is a huge operation in Washington. According to offical estimates, the government in 1994 took 6.3 million classification actions, creating an estimated 19 million pages of information that only selected government officals can see. More than 32,000 government workers are employed full time in determining what should be secret. Automatic declassification of documents older than 25 years should release millions of pages of documents concerning the Vietnam War, experts project as one example. They note that since several agencies classify reams of material and no routine declassification has until now occurred, millions, perhaps billions, of pages of documents might emerge in numerous areas. Illya Kuryakin "HA!!" U.N.C.L.E. Network Services Ruby kuryakin@halcyon.com Galactic Gumshoe They told me to put a disclaimer here. And _I_ run the place. :} ------------------------------ End of Skunk Works Digest V5 #254 ********************************* To subscribe to skunk-works-digest, send the command: subscribe skunk-works-digest in the body of a message to "majordomo@mail.orst.edu". 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