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To: GST who wrote (145723)9/16/2004 9:13:46 AM
From: unclewest  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
Vietnamese rubber and coffee were always their primary interests.

I agree. Those were the French interests. But they lost it all.

Michelin moved their rubber production to Brazil, Nigeria and elsewhere.

Coffee production has increased a hundredfold or more in the past 25 years...but France owns none of it.