Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Non-Tech : Any info about Iomega (IOM)? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Gary Wisdom who wrote (38577)	12/5/1997 8:59:00 AM
From: Teddy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

Good Morning Gary, i missed you yesterday, but you didn't miss much: you could have counted the shares traded on one hand. Charity plans to fly Santa Claus to Baghdad OSLO (Reuters) - An Icelandic charity hopes to fly Santa Claus to Baghdad on Christmas Day bearing gifts and medical aid for thousands of Iraqi children suffering from punishing U.N. trade sanctions. However, even Santa's reindeer-drawn sleigh is not immune to tight controls on civilian flights into Iraq. The Reykjavik-based Peace 2000 International must await a go-ahead from U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan before dispatching what it calls its "Santa Peaceflight." "We have written to him about Baghdad and we're waiting for a reply," Thor Magnusson, founder of Peace 2000, told Reuters on Thursday. "Santa doesn't understand sanctions so it's very difficult to tell him he can't fly." Response from the Iraqi embassy in London had been very positive, Magnusson said. The charity says Santa Claus in his traditionally red-and-white coat and white beard has no allegiance to any region and can spread a message of peace and goodwill as agreeable to Muslims as Christians. "Santa will be a revolution in Baghdad, we do not see him as a religious figure," Magnusson said. "We see Santa coming in as a completely neutral force, as a spokesman for the children to appeal for an end to the suffering," he said. Santa Peaceflights visited children suffering from the Chernobyl fallout in Belarus in 1994 and war-ravaged Sarajevo in 1995. Last year 100,000 gifts were distributed in Bosnia. Magnusson hopes to raise $300,000 for the Baghdad trip. The charity has formed an alliance with Western Union Financial Services, whereby donations can be made via same-day transfer through any of the group's 40,000 agents worldwide. Gifts are donated by Icelandic children in response to television appeals. Peace 2000 plans to deliver medical supplies in cooperation with Italian charity Bridge to Baghdad. It also plans to airlift out some critically ill children in alliance with the Conscience International charity organization of the United States. The United Nations imposed stiff trade sanctions on Iraq after its troops invaded Kuwait in August, 1990. The Baghdad administration claims that thousands of children have died as a result of sickness or malnourishment resulting from the sanctions, despite an oil-for-food deal allowing Iraq to sell controlled quantities of oil in order to purchase food, medicine and other supplies for its people.