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To: el_gaviero who wrote (80731)	12/4/2000 7:46:20 PM
From: excardog	Respond to of 95453

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Iraq to boycott sellers of oil to 'hostile states' BAGHDAD, Dec 3: Iraq said yesterday it planned to boycott companies and countries that sold its crude oil to states it regards as hostile, reports Reuters. The Iraqi News Agency (INA) quoted a statement issued following a cabinet meeting chaired by President Saddam Hussein as saying the cabinet had taken this decision and referred it to the Revolutionary Command Council for approval. Although the statement did not name countries Baghdad considered hostile, it was clearly referring mainly to the United States, which led the 1991 Gulf War against Iraq. The United States and Britain also launched four days of extensive air raids against Iraq in 1998 and their warplanes currently enforce no-fly zones in northern and southern Iraq. It was not immediately clear how much a boycott would work. Iraq sells oil under an oil-for-food deal with the United Nations to buy food, medicine and other humanitarian needs for the Iraqi people reeling under stringent UN trade sanctions imposed since its 1990 invasion of Kuwait. But Iraqi oil exports halted on Friday after Baghdad insisted buyers of its crude pay a surcharge outside the terms of the UN oil-for-food programme. The cabinet statement said the president of Iraq can include a state or foreign company on a black list, "prevent selling oil to it and ban economic dealing with it if the state or the foreign company sells Iraqi oil to any country which is at war with Iraq or any other Arab country." The United States imported through a third party a total of 124.6 million barrels of oil during the first seven months of this year, according to data released by the US Energy Department. Iraq was the sixth-biggest supplier of oil to the United States during the period, shipping an average of 585,000 barrels per day. This was more than Kuwait, which a US-led international military force liberated from an invading Iraqi army a decade ago.

To: el_gaviero who wrote (80731)	12/4/2000 11:55:10 PM
From: Webster Groves	Respond to of 95453

OT (again) I'm just looking at the claimed statistical validity, not the racial distinction. The argument as presented was that people of the same IQ make about the same $$$. But the average white (not IQ normalized) makes more than the average person with an IQ of 100. That implies that the average white has a higher IQ than the average person who has an IQ of 100. The Bell Curve, as you say, says blacks (12-15% of population) have lower IQs, and Asians (another 15 %) have higher IQs. So how can an average white have a higher IQ than the average white ? The statistics appear inconsistent to me. - wg (just an average guy) P.S. Nibbled late today on ATW and PDE. Why won't anybody sell UFAB to me at 7 3/8 ?