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To: Mark Bartlett who wrote (19385)	9/20/1998 10:21:00 PM
From: IngotWeTrust	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 116759

Dear Head'nSand...the issue of LOSING Au/options reco's needs 2B discussed here! I will continue to do so, be it you, Ross, Hutch, Terry Swift, Jim McMannis, or Clinton that is doing the posting. Folks join this thread every day hoping some soul will make money for them. The action in options DOES effect the price of gold...how do you think it was forced so low, pal? This is so pertinent, that it obvious to everyone but you. So be it. I'll continue to call for ALL options players/promoters to put their track record where their gold advice is...out in plain view, and you continue to declare it is irrelevant. Deal? All the best to you, as well, butt... you sure have one exposed hiney standing in the position you are assuming... Doubt Ur mentor, Soros spends much time in that position. O/49r

To: Mark Bartlett who wrote (19385)	9/21/1998 2:02:00 AM
From: Alex	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116759

RUSSIA'S ATOMIC CHAOS Unpaid fingers on the nuclear buttons By DAVID HOFFMAN in Moscow Russia's nuclear weapons command, from bomb-design laboratories to missile silos, submarines and early-warning systems, is showing dangerous signs of distress amid the country's economic implosion. Recent public disclosures indicate thousands of workers in the atomic arsenal are not being paid for months at a time and that there have been major setbacks in Russia's plans to modernise its weapons systems. President Boris Yeltsin recently ordered a secret strategic weapons review to set priorities for Russian forces into the next century. Western analysts and Russian officials say the plan allows for continued shrinkage of the strategic arsenal, but that the actual decline may be deeper and faster than the Kremlin forecasts. Russian officials claim their strategic nuclear forces are secure and say an accidental launch or the theft of a weapon is impossible. But as the country sinks into economic chaos, there have been growing signs of despair among the guardians of its nuclear forces. Mr Alexander Lebed, the former military leader who is now governor of the Krasnoyarsk region, wrote to Moscow demanding that service personnel at Uzhur-4, the intercontinental ballistic missiles base, should get their unpaid wages. Mr Lebed said he was "seriously thinking of establishing territorial jurisdiction" over the base. "We in Krasnoyarsk are not rich yet," he wrote, "but in exchange for the status of a nuclear territory we could feed our staff and become a headache for the world community along with India and Pakistan." Service personnel at the base had not received their pay in five months, and protesting wives were blocking their husbands from reporting for duty at the missile silos. In the nuclear weapons design sector, too, complaints have been intensifying. Workers at Russia's premier weapons laboratory, Arzamas-16 - now known as Sarov - and other design and construction centres staged public protests last week to highlight the Government's failure to pay them their wages. A busload of discontented workers from the Arzamas-16 centre came to protest in Moscow. "We haven't been paid for months," said Ms Ludmilla Zuikova, a librarian. "It's terrible when people are starving. This is atomic technology, after all ... So that in the future the world can be calm, so that people won't worry, so that you don't think we pose a threat to you, we need money so that this atomic source can he held to standards." But when the workers went to the Ministry of Atomic Energy, the acting Minister, Mr Yevgeny Adamov, told them the Government owed the ministry $A285 million and had not given it a rouble in two months. - Los Angeles Times, Washington Post smh.com.au