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            Blythe Systems & Public Information Research
                             announce
                         NAMEBASE ONLINE!

                 FREE PUBLIC ACCESS NOW AVAILABLE
            via telnet or rlogin to ursula.blythe.org
                      (log in as: namebase)

NameBase is used by hundreds of serious journalists and
researchers. For anyone with an IBM-compatible or Macintosh
microcomputer, it offers fast access to a database of 80,000 names
of groups and individuals, compiled from over 500 investigative
books published since 1962, and thousands of pages from
periodicals since 1973. Areas covered include the international
intelligence community, political elites from the Right and Left,
the U.S. foreign policy establishment, assassination theory, Latin
America, big business, and organized crime.

          SPECIAL ONLINE VERSION FOR INTERNET ACCESS!

NameBase Online can now be accessed via the Internet by logging
into Blythe Systems. From your internet site, type the command:

            telnet ursula.blythe.org <enter>

When you see the login prompt, log in as: namebase <enter>
No password is required. To leave the program and return
to your home site, just hit X on the NameBase Online menu.

Note: if you have trouble with your screen when you login via
telnet, (like seeing double characters when you log type), try
the "rlogin" command instead of telnet:

              rlogin ursula.blythe.org <enter>
.................................................................

  ACCESS AND USE THE COMPLETE NAMEBASE ONLINE PROGRAM FOR FREE!

This is an experimental installation. Depending on response,
unrestricted free access may not be available after our trial
period. So login soon and explore this uniquely valuable
information resource!

After you've tested NameBase Online, you'll probably want to buy
your own registered copy and receive regular updates and PIR's
excellent quarterly newsletter "NewsLine." The full-featured
diskette version of NameBase, which offers a more sophisticated
user interface and several additional search options, is available
for MS-DOS or Macintosh computers.

Ordering, update, and registration information for NameBase
is available online at Blythe Systems or via e-mail: write
to pir@nyxfer.blythe.org for complete details.

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What is NameBase?

NameBase is a unique microcomputer name and country index with
over 176,000 citations.

Each name includes up to 150 sources for a total of over 176,000
citations. When the name has been located in or associated with a
country other than the U.S. for a period of years (true of 28,000
names), this information is also displayed. Access time for a
single name is about one second, and for all names associated with
a country during a time frame is about thirty seconds. The program
also graphs the distribution of entry-years for a country during
the last sixty years, providing a picture of how well the data
covers a particular period or event in its history.

Name or country searches may be stacked 50 deep to save time, with
the option of printing out the display or appending displayed
names to the user's word-processing file. Leading letters and
phonetic searches can be used to locate difficult or
transliterated names, and the most common nicknames are
cross-checked automatically. If a citation is of particular
interest, it is possible to extract other names from the same
source, or even cross one source with another. (For example, which
members of the Council on Foreign Relations are also included in
Forbes 400 richest Americans?)

NameBase on Diskette:

NameBase fits on 3 standard HD floppies, or takes about 3
megabytes on a hard disk. The program can be configured to prompt
for the floppy it needs if a hard disk is not used. After
purchasing an initial set of disks, update notices are sent out
with a list of recent sources, along with our quarterly NameBase
NewsLine, and the latest set of cumulative disks may be purchased
at half price. The back issues of NewsLine may also be read or
downloaded from the NameBase menu.

Although only citations are shown for each name (author, title,
date, and page number), almost all titles include a screen of
annotation. All sources are filed at Public Information Research
and a photocopy or fax service is available. NameBase specializes
in sources that are ignored by expensive online search services.
Many of the sources have never been indexed before anywhere, but
now they are all indexed together.

Name and country searches are supported, and the program creates
country graphs for time periods you can specify. The newest version
of NameBase can also perform a search for all names covered in the
same source as your criterion name, and the IBM version offers
customizable color screens.

What some users say about NameBase:

"The sheer novelty and volume ... has won positive reviews
from disparate sources."
            --Christian Science Monitor, July 31, 1989

"...[a] treasure trove of intelligence information."
            --Jeff Gerth, New York Times, October 6, 1987

"...a helpful and easily accessible resource for research
into the world's diplomatic and intelligence communities."
            --Peter Grose, Executive Editor
              Foreign Affairs, Spring 1989

"...the closest popular equivalent to the CIA's own master
computer."
            --Jonathan Marshall, Economics Editor
              San Francisco Chronicle

"[The references I received] would have been invalable
during the early stages of my [research] project."

            --Steve Weinberg, Executive Director
              Investigative Reporters & Editors, Inc.
              The IRE Journal, Winter 1989

"The absolutely indispensable database for anyone
seriously interested in global intelligence and espionage."
            --David Wise, author of Molehunt (1992)

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                    NameBase is published by:

                   Public Information Research
                  a nonprofit corporation based
                     in San Antonio, Texas

                  e-mail: pir@nyxfer.blythe.org
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                        How to Order NameBase

FIRST-TIME BUYERS pay $79 for the DOS or Mac version, which
includes registration and a two-year subscription to the quarterly
newsletter NewsLine. With your disks, you will receive contact
information and instructions on how to order photocopies or faxes
of original sources from PIR.

UPDATES: Cumulative updates are available for $39 within two years
of your original purchase. Each Update automatically renews your
registration and NewsLine subscription for another two years.

ON-LINE REGISTERED USERS: If you'd rather not pay $79 for your own
disks, you can still use the program online and be a registered
user for $30. You'll receive the printed NewsLine newsletter and a
two-year registration, which entitles you to order photcopies or
faxes of original sources.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:

Apple Macintosh computers:

The minimum system is a Mac Plus with a single 800K drive, System
4.1, and Finder 5.5 or later, 1M of RAM and 128K of ROM. The
program is easier to use with dual floppy drives or a hard disk.

The Mac version is available on 3.5-inch, 800K floppies (5 disks)
or 3.5-inch, 1.4 Megabyte floppies (3 disks)

DOS-compatible computers:

NameBase can be configured for a hard disk or for dual 360K or
720K floppy drives. It requires 125K of conventional program
memory under DOS 2.1 or later, and works with any type of monitor.
The program will also run on single-floppy laptops with no hard
disk if the user first sets up a 360K virtual RAM disk.

The MS-Dos Version is available in these formats:

 5.25-inch, 360K (10 disks)    3.5-inch, 720K (6 disks)
 5.25-inch, 1.2M (3 disks)     3.5-inch, 1.44M (3 disks)

Enclose a check or money order (US dollars only) for $79 for the
first set; $39 for each additional set.  Add $5 for credit card
orders (VISA or Mastercard)

Shipping is included: US orders shipped first-class; foreign
orders sent air mail, printed matter (you should receive your
diskettes within 10 days).

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Check all that apply:

___ MS-DOS 5.25-inch, 360K                 ___ Mac 3.5-inch, 800K
___ MS-DOS 5.25-inch, 1.2M high-density    ___ Mac 3.5-inch, 1.4M high-density

___ MS-DOS 3.5-inch, 720K
___ MS-DOS 3.5-inch, 1.44M high-density

    $79 for first set,
    $39 for each additional set            Total:   $ ________

___ Two-Year Registration Only (No Diskettes)       $  30.00

___ My check payable to: THE LEARNING ALLIANCE is enclosed.

IMPORTANT: From outside the US, please send an International Money
Order in US Dollars.

___ Please charge my credit card  ($5 surcharge on credit card orders)

    Visa ____    Mastercard ____

Card Number: ___________________________ Expir.Date:_________

___ NameBase sounds okay, but I want to start my own database.
Send information on MiniBase, a DOS database program by PIR that
costs $29.

Please print legibly!

BILL TO:

Name__________________________________________________
Address_______________________________________________
City, State, Zip______________________________________
Telephone (optional)__________________________________
e-mail address:_______________________________________


SHIP TO (if different from Billing Address):

Name__________________________________________________
Address_______________________________________________
City, State, Zip______________________________________
Telephone (optional)__________________________________
e-mail address:_______________________________________


SEND THIS FORM WITH YOUR PAYMENT TO:

The Learning Alliance
324 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012
Tel: (212) 226-7171
Fax: (212) 274-8712
e-mail: alliance@blythe.org

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Public Information Research                  Daniel Brandt, President
Nonprofit publisher of NameBase         e-mail: pir@nyxfer.blythe.org
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