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To: BigJake who wrote (11377)	5/4/1998 10:59:00 PM
From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell	Read Replies (1) of 13949

I think I now know what will finally cement Y2K on front pages... Politics! In the May 11 issue of Time Magazine, page 16, there's a story entitled "The G.O.P. Plots to Hang the 2000 Problem on Al". Here's an excerpt: If the Millennium Bug sparks a recession, as various economists predict, Republicans aim to remind voters that the high-tech Veep who popularized the term "information superhighway" will have had eight years in which to tackle the problem. "The year 2000 problem and the Year 2000 campaign are going to be the same thing," says Jim Lucier of Americans for Tax Reform, a group that has close ties to the G.O.P. The Republican National Committee appears to be intrigued at the prospect. Ed Yourdan, an expert on the Millennium Bug, has been invited to speak at a strategy-planning session. - Jeff

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