Panel backs FOIA arbiter to speed openness and cut costs
A Senate panel heard arguments for an independent FOIA arbiter to review agency responses and steer disputes away from courts. Advocates say an ombudsman would curb agency defensiveness and speed rulings while tracking requests within 10 days and enabling online case tracking.
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Open Records
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House
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Anthrax scare closes three DC area mail facilities
Pentagon and Washington mail facilities were shut and about 900 workers given antibiotics after initial tests suggested anthrax. Subsequent samples from two Pentagon mailrooms and a Washington facility tested negative, though some tests remain incomplete.
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Volunteers sought for Iowa neurology cognitive study
The Department of Neurology invites volunteers with 12 years or less of education and no neurological disease to participate in a cognitive function study. Participants undergo skin conductance, respiration, heart rate, and facial EMG measurements. Up to four hours, over several visits, with compensation. Call 353-0968 for details at THE im University of Iowa.
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Six French Algerians convicted in Paris embassy bombing plot
A Paris court convicted six French Algerian men of criminal association with a terrorist enterprise tied to al Qaida for plans to blow up the U.S. Embassy in central Paris before 9/11. Djamel Beghal got 10 years. Kamel Daoudi nine. others 1 to 6 years. The plot reportedly involved Nizar Trabelsi and included no verified explosives evidence.
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Kamel Daoudi
Nizar Trabelsi
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Trabelsi
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