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To: bob gauthier who wrote (8910)	1/14/1998 6:07:00 PM
From: E	Respond to of 31646

From the Financial Times, Tuesday, January 13, excerpts: SYSTEMS 'BOMB' PLEA GOES TO CLINTON AND BLAIR, by Jimmy Burns The US, UK and Canadian governments will today be confronted by an unprecedented note of alarm from business leaders over the threat posed by the computer "millennium bomb." In a statement to be delivered to President Clinton and the British and Canadian prime ministers, more than 60 senior executives warn that "rapid and focused action" is needed to avert serious disruption to public services on both sodes of the Atlantic. ."We fear that governments lag in assessing and addressing the problem," says the statement. It warns that disruption could extend to "delays in welfare payments, the triggering of financial chaos by a breakdown in revenue collection and debt management, and malfunctions in air traffic control and defence systems". Among the executives signing the statement are [a whole bunch of important guys from important companies-JM] .Other signatories include academics and trade union leaders who agreed to the letter after a meeting in California last month under the auspices of the British North American Committee, an ad hoc forum which meets twice yearly to discuss issues of pressing concern to commerce and industry. The final signatory to this call for "rapid and focused action" against the threat inserted the single, puzzling word "NOT", written in crude letters with a crayon, before his name, which was Mike Winn. [Okay, I admit it, I made up that last sentence. JM]