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To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (52045)	7/18/1999 9:46:00 PM
From: John Pitera	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 86076

Hi Jorj, I think that they are a significant problem area. We also have a situation of social unrest in Iran that could be paralleling the revolution in 1979. And Russia is going to be more trouble than just about any of us wants to contemplate. Did you see that the Russian govt said this past week that only a third of russia's computer both public and private sector will be Y2K compliant in time. Also the Gartner Group was out at the end of the week talking about the possibility of a trillion $ of potential electronic payment transfer fraud occurring due to Y2K. John

To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (52045)	7/18/1999 9:49:00 PM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	Respond to of 86076

More important China manipulates the HK stock market Taipei, which agrees reconciliation is a shared goal but says it will only embrace a democratic China, has been estranged from the mainland since the Nationalists lost a civil war to the communists and fled into exile on the island in 1949. ''We have warned the Taiwan authorities to rein in at the edge of a precipice and stop various actions of splittism to avoid serious consequences to the relations and situations across the Taiwan Straits,'' Jiang said. Taipei's policy change has rippled through Asian financial markets, jolting China's own markets in Hong Kong, Shanghai and Shenzhen. Taiwan authorities marshalled billions of dollars of state funds on Saturday to stem a sharp stock-market slide.