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To: Rarebird who wrote (49740)2/28/2000 12:31:00 AM
From: PaulM  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 116753
 
Euro Plunges to Near Panic Levels

biz.yahoo.com

Interesting. Can't quite figure what's going on. Seems the the dollar is getting the usual flight to quality bid it gets in times of monetary crisis, but that flight to quality bid is not enough to support the stock US market. Ominous. We may be at a cross roads. The the liquidity that poured out of Japan in the 90's is gonner. P.S. What shall we call the Euro? How about "The Old World Peso"?



To: Rarebird who wrote (49740)2/29/2000 7:29:00 AM
From: long-gone  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 116753
 
Holy S@IT!!!!!!!! The open threat of Thermo-Nuclear WAR
(and who gave them the technology?)
China Threatens US with Missile Strike
UPI
February 29, 2000

China has warned, in a strongly worded newspaper article, that Beijing will fight any American attempt to defend Taiwan, including possibly launching nuclear missiles against the U.S. mainland.
The Washington Times reported Tuesday that the warning published Monday in the official People's Liberation Army newspaper vowed to run U.S. forces out of Asia, and even turn a regional conflict into a nuclear war. China has missiles capable of reaching the United States with nuclear warheads.

"It (China) is a country that has certain abilities of launching strategic counterattack and the capacity of launching a long-distance strike," the article said.

"It is not a wise move to be at war with a country such as China, a point which the U.S. policy-makers know fairly well also," the newspaper said.

The Washington Times said the printed warning came as U.S. Navy ships began exercises off (cont)
newsmax.com