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To: John Mansfield who wrote (1258)	3/23/1998 4:29:00 PM
From: John Mansfield	Read Replies (1) of 9818

Watchdog calls for 2000 bug back up By Mary Fagan DON Cruickshank, the head of the government's millennium action group, is acting to avert chaos in public services at the turn of the century by calling for contingency plans in gas, water, electricity and telecoms. Cruickshank, chairman of Action 2000, is to meet on Tuesday with senior executives from the utility industries, local government officials, the police and government depertments. Cruickshank is concerned that essential services such as electricity and clean water could be hit by failure of computer chips embedded in systems. This could be a serious effect of the "millennium bomb" - from software which cannot tell between centuries. He said: "We must ensure that there is no material disruption of public services. In some ways, this is the most important thing the government can do." telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=000158118408973&pg=/et/98/3/22/cmil22.html

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