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To: lorne who wrote (34112)5/18/1999 7:15:00 PM
From: John Hunt  Read Replies (1) of 116796
 
Task force admits millennium bug is out of control (UK)

<< THE government, emergency services and local authorities have woefully mismanaged attempts to protect essential computer systems from the millennium bug - leaving Britain open to severe disruption on January 1, 2000.

A leaked report to be published tomorrow shows that key government departments as well as most British police forces and local authorities have not updated critical computer systems which remain susceptible to failure. The least prepared and most high-risk departments are the Ministry of Defence, the Foreign Office and the Inland Revenue. >>

sundayherald.co.uk

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Bombing of Yugoslavia Ignites Anti-U.S. Feeling Around World

<< BUENOS AIRES—It's thousands of miles from Belgrade, and there's not a Serb in sight. But Gonzalo Etcheberry is passing a wall on a busy street here spray-painted with the words, "Yankee, out of the Balkans." He didn't write the slogan, but he couldn't agree more.

"Your bombs in Yugoslavia are from the side of America that I can't stand," said Etcheberry, a 21-year-old medical student wearing a black Pearl Jam T-shirt. "I hate it when the U.S. plays judge and God." >>

washingtonpost.com

The US is paying a big price for this war.



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