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Strategies & Market Trends : Strictly: Drilling II -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: isopatch who wrote (5947)	1/1/2002 2:38:40 PM
From: isopatch	Respond to of 36161

US Domestic Security still VERY vulnerable (excerp from an excellent Economist article) <And the weakest part of America's border defences remains unaffected: the Coast Guard. By its own admission, it ranks 39th out of 41 countries in terms of its equipment. Modernising its fleet of 80-odd ships and 200 aircraft and helicopters should begin next year, and it will take a decade. For the moment, the Guard does not have enough vessels both to patrol the high seas for drug smugglers and to protect ports. Of the 16,000 containers that come into America by ship every day, only 500 or so are inspected.> economist.com