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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: KLP who wrote (6062)	11/14/2000 4:44:04 PM
From: david james	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10042

<53% of CNN poll say Gore should concede> If they asked the complete question, they might discover that 53% think Bush should concede too, with a hefty number of overseas votes waiting to come in.

To: KLP who wrote (6062)	11/14/2000 7:22:46 PM
From: puborectalis	Respond to of 10042

O.T:.... Mafia 'gripping Italian economy' The Italian Mafia allegedly controls one in five businesses Organised crime controls one business in five in Italy, according to statistics released by the country's leading trade association. A conference organised by the association in Milan said that the Mafia controlled about 20% of all businesses. It also had an annual turnover of about $133bn, the equivalent of 15% of GNP. A conference document said that counterfeiting also accounted for a large slice of Italian industrial production. Only Taiwan, South Korea, Thailand and China reportedly earned more from illegally copying well-known internationally-branded products. It said Mafia profits were being invested in real estate, clinics and retirement homes, supermarkets, hotels and restaurants. And the fortunes made in these businesses would be "enough to pay off public debt, the ball and chain around Europe's ankle", the document added. International failure Sergio Bille, the president of Italy's business association, said not enough was being done internationally to combat organised crime. And out of a combined capital of more than $800bn only 7% has been frozen and 3% actually confiscated, he was quoted as saying. A senior police official said that countries which permitted offshore banking were to blame for the growth in criminal activities. Scepticism But Milan chief prosecutor Gerardo d'Ambrosio expressed scepticism about the allegations made at the conference. "In order to beat the Mafia, we need the co-operation of businessmen, and they don't always give us concrete facts upon which we can act," he said. "I haven't had a single complaint since I took up my post here - these businessmen talk a lot at conferences but not to the Prosecutor's Office." The Mafia is notorious for gaining control of institutions by using a mixture of bribery and fear, and then murdering those that cross them. Both anti-Mafia judge Paolo Borsellino and then top anti-Mafia prosecutor, Giovanni Falcone, were murderedd in 1992. Justice eventually caught up with seven leading members of the Italian Mafia who were sentenced to life imprisonment in 1999 for their part in the murder of Borsellino. Those convicted included the former godfather of the Sicilian Mafia, Salvatore Riina, known as The Beast, who is already serving several life sentences for other crimes. Search BBC News Online

To: KLP who wrote (6062)	11/14/2000 7:28:16 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10042

53% of CNN poll say Gore should concede...imagine on CNN yet...over 1,000,000 and change polled.... Sounds like the will of the people to me... <VBG>

To: KLP who wrote (6062)	11/15/2000 6:35:45 AM
From: long-gone	Respond to of 10042

<<53% of CNN poll say Gore should concede...imagine on CNN yet...over 1,000,000 and change polled....>> If that is what CNN is saying,wonder what are the real numbers>. That said,despite the fact I agree, I'm sick to tears of the rule by poll & focus group! Give us the rule of law again!!!! When did we decide we as a nation can litigate everything? A vote is intended to be an accounting - nothing funny or fancy - a place where even the best lawyer still only gets one vote!