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To: robnhood who wrote (16344)	8/22/1998 6:09:00 AM
From: marcos	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116825

Russ - you're back, you've been off on holidays, right? Yes, read it, and it's interesting - there have been other articles that have made some of the same points, one in The Economist this spring. Somehow I still find myself doubting that Saddam Hussein is any more ready for sainthood than Clinton or Bush, though. The torching of the oil fields in his retreat from Kuwait comes to mind, for a start - then follows his attraction to serious weaponry. That was on Warning that the LTS fracas on Kahuna and Mohan came up, eh. I think my main point after commenting on that individual's idiocy was that we should be careful not to get carried away with our own little petty nationalisms, since these wires cross borders and go all over the place. And since our glorious leaders do quite enough of that already. Speaking of which - "US readies plans for new missile strikes" dailynews.yahoo.com See you on cco - 30-dollar cco -g- ........ salud PS - Karen and I were talking about Japanese in Brasil. I went looking for a paper I saw months ago, couldn't find it, but found this - the story of 36 Japanese colonists inmigrating to Chiapas 101 years ago; unach.mx - sorry, Spanish only. I think the original Japanese influx to Brasil was around the same time, and was associated with coffee plantations as well. I've talked with a young Japanese lady in the city of M‚xico whose great-grandfather was born in Cuernavaca. The world's more mixed up than we sometimes think, and is getting more so. ..... cheers Here's another one - 'Japan-Brasil relations' .. sorry, Spanish again; mofa.go.jp Trivia bit - when the CPR recruiters were attracting labourers in China in the 1880s to help build the railroad, they called Canada 'Gold Mountain'. I think that's close to what 'canada' sounds like in Chinese. But nowadays, considering the state of the reserves of the BoC and truth-in-advertising laws, they would have to call it 'Gold Molehill'.