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Wednesday, July 2, 1997
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Clinton pushes for online security
WASHINGTON — Under pressure to quickly build a secure online marketplace for American business, President Clinton pushed yesterday
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to make the Internet a global free-trade zone and promised to put key patent, privacy and copyright policies in place within 12 months.
"In many ways electronic commerce is the Wild West of the global economy. Our task is to make sure it's safe and stable terrain," Clinton said.
He and Vice President Al Gore were hosts for an East-Room reception of industry executives to endorse a presidential task force's call for a hands-off, no-new-taxes approach to regulating business transactions on the worldwide computer network.
The Internet "should be a place where government makes every effort ... not to stand in the way, to do no harm." Clinton said.
Later yesterday, the president signed an information-technology agreement that would eliminate tariffs on an array of computers, semiconductors and telecommunications technology by 2000.
Clinton said the products represent "essential building blocks" of the information superhighway, and removing tariffs would bring a $5 billion reduction in tariffs on U.S. exports.
Some industry leaders have accused Clinton of moving slowly to
"In many ways, electronic commerce is the Wild West of the global economy."
Bill Clinton president
secure U.S. interests in the expanding area of Internet commerce. And many remained unhappy yesterday with various issues, including that
the administration has not budged on the restricted sale of encryption devices.
Without clear patent, copyright, privacy and other protections, some American companies and consumers have been leery of online transactions.
The lack of such protections risks the loss of billions of dollars to overseas competitors whose governments have already moved to secure electronic commerce, said Dennis Tsu, director of electronic commerce for Sun Microsystems.
Even as he welcomed Clinton's nod to industry self-regulation, Tsu said policy decisions were not happening fast enough.
Industry analysts expect Internet trade, if left mostly unfettered by government regulation, to reach $200 billion in the United States by 2000.
Diane Smiroldo, representative of a
business-software alliance of 14 major high-technology companies, said her membership was too grateful for self-regulation to grouse about Clinton's pace.
Clinton put Gore in charge of holding bureaucrats to the 12-month deadline.
Following recommendations from a task force, the president issued 13 specific objectives, including:
—The negotiation of an international agreement making the Internet a tariff-free zone.
—The federal purchase of 4 million items online, in order to bring government procurement into the electronic age.
—The development, with help from the Commerce Department and Office of Management and Budget, of industry codes of conduct and technology tools to protect privacy online.
Chairs to memorialize Oklahoma bombing
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OKLAHOMA CITY — One hundred sixty-eight stone-and-glass chairs — one for each of the people killed in the Oklahoma City bombing — will be erected at the site of the
erected at the site of the blast as a memorial.
The design was selected yesterday after an international competition.
The chairs, their backs and seats made of stone, will appear to float above glass bases during the day. At night, lights will illuminate the inscription of each victim's name.
tled from 624 entries.
From across a reflecting pool, the Survivors Tree, an elm scarred by the blast, will be surrounded by a low, circular wall inscribed with the names of the survivors.
Each design finalist received a $15,000 prize. Organizers, who plan to raise the memorial money privately, have already collected $2.5 million. Construction is
"When you see an empty chair, you see the emptiness, the absence," said Torrey Butzer, an Oklahoma native who now lives in Germany with her husband. She and her husband, Hans-Ekkehkard Butzer, who both graduated from the University of Texas architecture school, designed the memorial along with Sven Berg.
Tina Tomlin
wife of bombing victim
A 15-member committee of victims' relatives, survivors, community volunteers and design professionals unanimously chose the $9 million design from five finalists, whit-
expected to begin next year.
year.
The winning design exudes the desired spirit, said committee member Cheryl Scroggins, whose husband, Lanny, was killed in the blast. The committee was directed by a plan to preserve the building's outline, viewed as sacred ground, she said.
with the plans.
Other designs in the competition proposed a 60-foot leaning, granite wall to symbolize both the fall of the building and the spirit of a barnraising; a series of glass walls recalling the fence surrounding the bomb site that serves as a makeshift memorial; and a series of buildings filled with victims' belongings.
Not all were pleased
"I'm tired of people lining their pockets with my husband's memory," said Tina Tomlin, who lost her husband, Rick, in the bombing. "I think that fence and the bombed building over there is the best memorial. How else to show what an explosion looks like?"
Sex offender list not helpful for all
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SAN DIEGO — A CD-ROM with detailed information on 64,000 sex offenders, made public yesterday by a new California law, confirmed an old suspicion for one San Diego grandmother.
She typed the name of the stepfather of her four grandchildren into the computer at the sheriff's office and found that he had been convicted of three rapes of girls under age 18.
The grandmother,
who declined to give
her name, said she and
her son, who has our
"The public is totally unsympathetic... to the privacy rights of people convicted of sex crimes."
Elisabeth Semel National Association of Criminal Defenselawyers
California's compilation of the CD-ROM is one of the most aggressive attempts yet to keep people informed of sex offenders in their midst. It is part of the wave of state and federal laws that followed the 1994 murder of 7-year-old Megan Kanka by a repeat sex offender living in her neighborhood.
may, will use the information to wage a visitation battle with the mother.
ment of sex offenders who have already paid their debt to society.
Civil libertarians and criminal defense lawyers, who oppose the notification laws, warn of the danger of vigilantism or harass-
The rest of the listings include those convicted of what the state considers serious sex offenses. They are identified by community and ZIP code.
The records being made public in California do not list addresses, except for a small group of high risk offenders.
At least one lawsuit already has been filed to challenge the open-records policy as unfairly punishing those who already served their time.
"The public is totally unsympathetic and disinterested in the privacy rights of people convicted of sex crimes," said Elisabeth Semel, a San Diego attorney with the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.
The CD-ROM lists the names and ZIP codes, and in many cases includes photographs of 64,000 people in California who have committed a broad range of sex crimes since 1944. That irks Michael McGlinn, an attorney for two men who he says are rehabilitated and should not be part of the registry.
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