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Politics : Dutch Central Bank Sale Announcement Imminent? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Tom Byron who wrote (10486)	2/17/2001 6:54:19 AM
From: sea_urchin	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 81153

Guree : That was indeed stirring stuff from Uncle Bill. As you know, I am not a conspiracy believer but more and more I am beginning to think that Uncle Bill will succeed. It is the political and moral implication of this paragraph which, IMO, is his biggest card : "The success of our efforts will determine the fate of millions of people. It is no less than a life and death situation for many poor Africans. They desperately need injections of money to combat disease and crime. Over and over I was told that many young blacks commit crime and have indiscriminate sex (resulting in an AIDS epidemic) because there is no hope. A soaring gold price would mean many workers all over Southern Africa would have jobs again. Hope would return. Africa could become the natural resource "Boom Continent," not the "Hopeless Continent" as Britain's Economist called it." Anyway, he seems to have had a most successful and enjoyable trip and I am pleased about that. And, he has done a good PR job for SA.