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To: Ruyi who wrote (1527)	1/3/1999 8:43:00 PM
From: AD	of 1654

Year of the Bug Start Early For the Swedes: STOCKHOLD, Jan. 1 (Agence France-Presse) - The police at three Swedish airports got a foretaste of the Year 2000 bug today. Their computers malfunctioned at midnight, causing distress for travelers without passports. The bug hit police offices at airports that issue immediate, temporary passports to acknowledge that 1999 had arrived and refused to authorize tahe one-month documents. Police units in Arlanda airport, in Stockhold, and in Gothenburg and Malmoe, ran into the problem as a code signifying "end of run" or "end of file." Several would-be travelers were disappointed. The bug meant they could not get a passport -- a reason that is probably insufficient to claim a refund on plane tickets. Technicians managed to fix the problem later in the day. It is feared that the Year 2000 bug, caused because many computers are unable to distinguish between 2000 and 1900, will strike at midnight on December 31, 1999.

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