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Gold/Mining/Energy : At a bottom now for gold? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Amelia Carhartt who wrote (1486)	8/1/1998 9:28:00 AM
From: Don Rohner	Respond to of 1911

Two Children Having Nuclear rocks to throw! Gee I wonder when Clinton will visit them to make everything alright! What company makes money belts to carry gold coins? I think I want to invest in them. Large sales! Should be a winner especially in Pak/Ind. Friday July 31 4:41 PM EDT India, Pakistan trade fire as talks end By Sheikh Mushtaq SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - India and Pakistan exchanged fierce fire across the disputed Kashmir border for the second day on Friday as their diplomats in Colombo ended talks without progress toward restarting peace negotiations. More than 50 people were reported killed on the two sides of the Himalayan region as mortar and artillery fire left a trail of blood, officials in both countries said. Officials in Srinagar, summer capital of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, said the death toll in two days rose to 29 from four overnight. In Muzaffarabad, located in the third of the Kashmir valley controlled by Pakistan, officials said Thursday's Indian mortar fire had killed 33 people and wounded 100. Eleven were reported killed and 20 wounded on Thursday. Each nation accused the other of "unprovoked firing" along the 720-km (450-mile) cease-fire line, where clashes have escalated since both sides conducted nuclear tests in May. The U.N.-monitored "line of control" that divides Kashmir rises from the "Chicken Neck" area of Jammu region to the Siachen Glacier in Buddhist dominated Ladakh region. In Colombo, where diplomats of the two nations met for the first time since the nuclear tests, Pakistani official Tariq Altaf said: "It has not been possible to reach any agreement." But Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee, who met Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif on Thursday on the fringes of a South Asian summit, said the meeting had "started the process of resumption of dialogue." Pakistani officials said the dead on their side of the border included 17 civilian men, three soldiers and 13 women. A dozen troops were wounded, five of them seriously, they said. They said at least 20 Indian soldiers were reportedly killed and several wounded by firing from Pakistani troops. State officials said in Srinagar that 16 civilians including five women were killed in the Tangdar area on the Indian side. A civilian was killed by Pakistani firing in the Poonch sector, while firing raged in seven outposts of the Jammu border region, they added. Two Indian soldiers were killed by Pakistani firing in the Kupwara region, a defense spokesman said. Defense officials said three army personnel and two civilians were killed in heavy shelling in Kern and Uri sectors. A junior army officer, wounded in a firing in Siachen, later succumbed to his injuries, they added. "Today, Pakistani troops resorted to heavy shelling for the first time in villages well into the line of control and Uri township," Indian army spokesman P. Purshottam told Reuters. Eleven civilians were reported wounded in the Uri area. People living in Uri and Gurez areas have started leaving for safer places, officials said. Firing was also reported from the Kern sector, and Kargil in Ladakh. Much of the border lies west of Srinagar. Kargil lies some 220 km (132 miles) northeast. Pakistan says Kashmir is the "core" dispute in bilateral ties. India has rejected calls for mediation on the dispute which has caused two wars since the two nations won independence from Britain in 1947. Islamabad denies Indian charges of arming Kashmiri guerrillas seeking independence or merger with Pakistan, and says it only provides diplomatic and moral support. A rebellion that erupted in 1990 has killed more than 25,000 people in Jammu and Kashmir, India's only Muslim majority state. DR