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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (1122)	11/23/1999 1:08:00 PM
From: T L Comiskey	Respond to of 12235

Lets try plan B.......as in Bozo............some bulbs are dimmer than others ..... $78,800 seems about Right.... Hitler Ad for German Heaters Provokes Storm TAIPEI (Reuters) - An ad campaign in Taiwan that uses a cartoon image of Adolf Hitler to promote German home heaters will be withdrawn after causing a storm of protest. German and Israeli diplomats in Taiwan said the ad was appalling and insensitive. Facing the barrage of complaints, K.E. and Kingstone, the advertising agency behind the T$2.5 million (US$78,800) campaign, said it has ordered the posters removed from buses, subway and train stations island-wide within three days. The ad features Hitler saluting a banner that reads 'Declaring War on the Cold Front' and was created for German home heater maker DBK without that firm's knowledge. The cartoon Hitler's armband bears the letters ``DBK' rather than a swastika. ``We didn't mean any harm to anybody,' said planning and research director Huang Tsung-jung. ``We have learned our lesson.' An official in the Government Information Office, which oversees enforcement of media and libel law, said Taiwan's laws on freedom of expression bar only those advertisements promoting the sex trade, violence or anything criminal or libelous. Israel's representative in Taipei, Uri Gutman, said DBK's local agent had realized Hitler's image would be sensitive but thought it would be harmless as they did not use an actual photo of the Nazi leader, who was responsible for the extermination of millions of people during World War Two. Gutman, head of the quasi-official Israel Economic and Cultural Office, said it would be understandable if the company had been unaware of Nazi history, ``but they knew this and deliberately used it... I think this is unacceptable.' Hilmar Kaht, director general of the German Trade Office, Germany's quasi-official diplomatic outpost in Taipei, called for the immediate removal of what he deemed an ``inappropriate' ad. ``The Nazi symbol should not be used for advertisement,' Kaht said. ``Germany forbids its use.' The Taipei official said Taiwan now protected the right to display once-banned images of Chinese communist leaders Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping, whose 1949 revolution ousted the Chinese Nationalist state that fled into exile on Taiwan. Before martial law was lifted in 1987, displays of Mao, Deng or other symbols of the communist mainland merited a prison term.

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (1122)	11/23/1999 5:47:00 PM
From: arun gera	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12235

>>Anyway, are Anil Kripalani and Arun Sarin Indian Indians or American Indians [I don't mean Native American Indians]? Meaning did they join Qualcomm direct from India or did they do their stuff or grow up in USA then join Q!>> My guess is that they arrived in the US to pursue graduate studies and joined good companies and moved up. A very typical story. Other such examples of such India-born India&US educated successes: - Vinod Khosla who co-founded Sun Microsystems, Sabeer Bhatia (Hotmail), Naveen Jain (Infospace), Sidhu & Sharma (I2 Technologies), Desh Deshpande (Cascade Communications & Sycamore Networks), Co-founders of Cirrus Logic, Whowhere (sold to Lycos for $100 million+), Egain, Torrent Networks (sold to Ericsson for $500 million), Kiva (sold to Netscape), Netobjects (Sold stake to IBM), Aspect Development, Juniper Networks, Tibco Software, Avici Networks, Nextabit Networks (Sold to Lucent) Brocade Communications, Market Guide (sold to Multex), Yago Networks, Junglee Corp. (sold to Amazon), Lightera (sold to Ciena), Cerent Networks (sold to Cisco for $7+ Billion), Healtheon, Exodus Communications, Gupta Technologies, Keynote Systems, Amercian Info, Informatica, Microstrategy, Smart Modular Technologies, E-Stamp, Infosys, and others. Many more start-ups in the pipeline. Arun