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To: John Hunt who wrote (15785)	5/21/1998 6:32:00 AM
From: John Hunt	Respond to of 18056

New Indonesian president seen as unconventional biz.yahoo.com << Indonesia's new President Jusuf Habibie is an aeronautical engineer whose unconventional ideas on the economy send shudders through the international business community. >> << His tight grip on the 10 state-owned strategic industries making aircraft, steel, rolling stock, ships and weapons, has brought most flak for his opaque accounting practices and apparently unlimited access to state coffers. >> << Habibie made headlines and did himself enormous damage last year when he said the government should cut high interest rates to decrease inflation, then raise them again before cutting them again in a zig zag pattern to promote economic growth. >> Habibie at Indonesia helm "worst scenario"-analyst biz.yahoo.com << Jusuf Habibie's tenure as Indonesia's new president will be short-lived, unsatisfying and destabilising for the country, political analysts said on Thursday. ''In some senses, this is the worst possible scenario,'' said Damien Kingsbury of Monash University's Asia Institute in Melbourne. ''Habibie is notoriously unpopular within Indonesia, within the armed forces, within the financial community. He is not well liked within Golkar (the ruling party), he is publicly loathed,'' he told Reuters. >> Not exactly a ringing endorsement. John

To: John Hunt who wrote (15785)	5/21/1998 5:14:00 PM
From: robnhood	Respond to of 18056

<<<Disney's Evil Kingdom Exposed>>> John,, I never did like Disney stuff. The one time I was in Florida, we stayed at their park one night. I could not see what anyone saw in this place at all. Busch Gardens I found much better, with actual live animals and flowers. The other thing I enjoyed was a trip through Cape Kennedy. At the time it was all mothballed and was a little eerie, sort of looking at the future at a museum.. russell

To: John Hunt who wrote (15785)	5/21/1998 6:12:00 PM
From: Don S.Boller	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 18056

John: "DISNEY'S EVIL KINGDOM EXPOSED"............................ This has been going on for years...ask any old time californian about the (failed, thank goodness) Mineral King Development!!!! Best, Don

To: John Hunt who wrote (15785)	5/21/1998 10:11:00 PM
From: Bonnie Bear	Respond to of 18056

pwfh...gak...geech! Leaves me with a vision of a leering Micky Mouse with his trenchcoat opened to expose himself to passing women. As long as it's on Disney property, the world will never know the true Micky..... Hmmm, but the women keep going back for more... Hmmm...-ggg- was his real name Randy Rat?

To: John Hunt who wrote (15785)	5/22/1998 6:13:00 AM
From: John Hunt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18056

Interview -- Nobelist Samuelson -- Fed should tighten biz.yahoo.com << Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Samuelson told Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan last week he should tighten credit now or risk rising inflation down the road. Greenspan clearly did not heed the advice of the first American to win the Nobel Prize for economics, as the Fed kept the federal funds rate unchanged on Tuesday. In a Reuters interview, Samuelson also said U.S. stock prices are too high and Greenspan is afraid to take steps that might cause a massive stock market pullback. >>