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To: Ilaine who wrote (24928)	4/13/2002 7:32:53 AM
From: William B. Kohn	Respond to of 281500

So how do the Israeli's freely trade their neighbors for someone else's neighbors. Maybe the world can arrange a swap. Maybe we could put either the Hootoo's or the Tuitsi's on the West Bank in exchange for Yasir and his crowd. Africa gets rid of one problem, the MiddleEast gets rid of one problem. That's an interesting way to handle "Free Trade". Peace :-)

To: Ilaine who wrote (24928)	4/13/2002 7:33:45 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

an entertaining piece. Nice example, Cobalt. But, remember our anti-Free Trade fanatic? He would ignore it, and put up 30 posts in rebuttal. Or, as Tom Paine once put it. Trying to reason with a man who has given up the use of reason is about as effective as trying to administer medicine to the dead. lindybill@Itryitallthetimewithjohn.edu

To: Ilaine who wrote (24928)	4/13/2002 9:55:34 AM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 281500

Arafat condemns terrorism By Eli J. Lake UPI State Department Correspondent From the International Desk Published 4/13/2002 9:49 AM JERUSALEM, April 13 (UPI) -- Under mounting pressure from the United States following a suicide bombing Friday in Jerusalem, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat issued a statement Saturday condemning terrorism against Israelis and Palestinians. "President Arafat and the Palestinian leadership express their condemnation of all terrorist actions which target civilians, Israeli or Palestinians," the statement said. U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell cancelled his scheduled meeting with Arafat in Ramallah after a suicide bomber killed six Israelis in downtown Jerusalem Friday afternoon. Palestinian sources said the condemnation statement was made to try to salvage the postponed meeting. A senior State Department official said Saturday, "We've got the statement and we are looking at it. We expected him to condemn terrorism, now he has made a statement, and we are looking at it." On MSNBC Saturday, Palestinian Minister for Jerusalem Affairs, Abu Zaid said the statement would be issued on Palestinian radio and television. Since March, the White House has pressed Arafat to condemn terrorism in Arabic. To date, the Palestinian leader has not done so. Last month he even made a speech calling for martyrs to liberate Jerusalem, drawing criticism from U.S. officials. After the Jerusalem bombing Friday Powell's spokesman Richard Boucher said, "The secretary condemns in the strongest possible terms today's terrorist attacks and expects Chairman Arafat to do so as well." (with reporting by Saud Abu Ramadan in Gaza.) Copyright © 2002 United Press International

To: Ilaine who wrote (24928)	4/13/2002 10:19:55 AM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Free trade makes everyone richer. Yep, it definitely makes the rich richer. As for the not so rich, the evidence is ambiguous at best. My computer hiccuped on this connection. Never was able to get the pdf file. Anyone else have a problem. Or am I, once again, dealing with a cantankerous Dell product?

To: Ilaine who wrote (24928)	4/13/2002 12:49:29 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Free trade makes everyone richer. Proven in roughly 400 words - an entertaining piece. Got it. The problem with it was clearly an early warning from the DSL modem that it was about to expire. Last breath or something. Nice piece but much too simple like, unfortunately, all Econ 100 level lectures, you have to leave the complexity out and complexity is the way the real world works. Let's see some assumptions: all economic actors within each country are equal; all are rational consumers (big problem from the view point of my discipline); no prospect of wars to complicate the sense of national vulnerability; etc. To me, the story is a little like the stories I used to hear about markets. Let's take the chicken farmers selling eggs, says the econ instructor. Well, chicken farmers and eggs are about as irrelevant to understanding contemporary economies as one can imagine. Well, thanks again. I much enjoyed it. Gotta run. My wife is signaling that if I don't quit the computer soon, I'll have to do the hour walk by myself.