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To: Yaacov who wrote (13185)	6/30/1999 3:44:00 PM
From: truedog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

to: Yaacov from: truedog Y2K I'm not ready to say we will have a crisis but feel that there will definitely be some glitches in the services we take for granted. The imbedded chips in oil wells, pipe lines, and refineries are almost impossible to reach in order to correct or replace. Without gas, oil, and diesel, nothing moves. The stores will run out in fast order without restocks. Then the crisis will be the fear of the people who made no preparations at all. We on the Gulf coast are used to preparing for hurricanes which can shut down power for a week or more. All we really need to do is slightly increase our preparedness. One recent example of glitches is the test of the water and sewer system in Van Nuys, CA. It seems they thought they were Y2K compliant but, when they tested the system, some 40,000 gallons of raw sewage was dumped into the city streets. If a problem does hit, you, in Europe, will get the hit before we do. It all hinges on 12 midnight, December 31. Regards, truedog

To: Yaacov who wrote (13185)	7/2/1999 8:57:00 PM
From: goldsnow	Respond to of 17770

UN Refugee Agency 'Bankrupt' For Kosovo Work 10:15 a.m. Jul 02, 1999 Eastern By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations agency charged with resettling nearly one million refugees in Kosovo urgently appealed Friday for funds to continue the operation, saying it was on the verge of bankruptcy. The Geneva-based agency UNHCR said it had enough money in the bank to keep the operation going another two weeks. Sadako Ogata, U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, starts a two-day visit to Kosovo Monday, her first since UNHCR resumed operations there on June 13, a statement said. She will accompany a convoy of returnees from Macedonia to Pristina. Reviewing the refugee situation on the ground, UNHCR special envoy Dennis McNamara said Serbs in Kosovo were under attack in many parts of the country despite the best efforts of international KFOR peacekeepers to protect them. McNamara also said the agency was negotiating the evacuation of 5,000 ethnic Serbs, originally from the Krajina region of Croatia, to Romania and then on to third countries. He said it was vital that police, courts and prisons were re-established in the devastated and ''lawless'' province of Kosovo as a matter of urgency. KFOR troops were neither mandated nor equipped to jail murderers, looters, arsonists and other criminals on the loose. He said the UNHCR had only received $155 million toward its appeal for $234 million to finance the resettlement operation through year-end. ''We are just not getting cash from donor governments necessary to make it a viable operation,'' McNamara told a news briefing. Some 524,000 ethnic Albanians have returned to Kosovo in the past two weeks from Albania, Macedonia and Montenegro, mainly through their own efforts. About 233,000 remain in the region to be transported by UNHCR, which has organized limited returns by bus so far. Returnees and the tens of thousands displaced within Kosovo need food, medicines and materials to repair damaged homes. ''I just find it quite incredible...after a hugely expensive conflict in Europe with UNHCR designated as the lead humanitarian agency for the repatriation of nearly a million refugees, that we have to keep on saying 'We haven't got any money','' McNamara said. ''Well, we haven't. We're just about bankrupt today in terms of cash flow,'' he said. ''We are spending about $10 million a week, a very modest figure I might suggest, for coordinating this operation. ''We have $20 million in cash available, but if you take away money already committed, we probably have $2 million cash, which is zero,'' he said. The remaining committed funds should keep UNHCR's operation going for two weeks, according to spokeswoman Judith Kumin. UNHCR now deploys 104 staff, including 58 expatriates, in seven urban areas of Kosovo. McNamara said it was trying to reach ''tens of thousands'' of ethnic Albanians believed to be cut off in the Drenica region, in central Kosovo. But as the roads are feared to be mined, the agency will try to fly over by helicopter to locate the group. Copyright 1999 Reuters Limited

To: Yaacov who wrote (13185)	7/2/1999 9:00:00 PM
From: goldsnow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

Yaacov, you seen this before (many times) Kosovo help will be contingent on respect for human rights (Serbs :), democracy and disarmement complience...Humanitarian aid will go through of course <gg> You think Europeans (Italy) will pay? like Dah!..<gg>

To: Yaacov who wrote (13185)	7/2/1999 9:08:00 PM
From: goldsnow	Respond to of 17770

He agreed with his host that the Serb minority had a right to live in Kosovo, and that the ethnic Albanian Kosovo Liberation Army guerrillas should be disarmed. Jospin said the contingents of the international peacekeeping force in Kosovo, to which Russia also belongs, should share the same philosophy, while taking account of their own specific "sensitivities" and the reactions of local people to their presence. Russia is seen by both the Serbs and the ethnic Albanians as being pro-Serb in the Kosovo confrontation. russiatoday.com