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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (16281)	10/10/1998 7:17:00 PM
From: Jon Koplik	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 152472

To all - another O.T. weekend post. October 10, 1998 India's Onion Shortage Causes Stink Filed at 6:49 p.m. EDT By The Associated Press NEW DELHI, India (AP) -- In India, an onion shortage is raising quite a stink -- and causing more than a few tears. The worst shortage in decades is provoking street protests, rioting, newspaper editorials and political speeches across the country as angry citizens scramble for their staple vegetable. Analyst Rahul Dev pointed out that the onion is used in most Indian dishes. ''Not being able to afford it becomes rather an emotive issue,'' he said. A bad crop and hoarding by traders has cranked up prices in many parts of the country from about 10 cents a pound to 70 cents a pound. At least one political resignation has been linked to the crisis. In Delhi state, Chief Minister Sahib Singh Verma, plagued by rising crime and an image as a poor administrator, allowed onions from Persian Gulf countries to be sold at subsidized prices. The populist move apparently failed to stem the tide against Verma, and he stepped down Saturday, a month before local assembly elections. It's not the first time onions have influenced the course of events in India. Last year, when the onion harvest was bountiful and prices were driven down, farmers protested because the government would not subsidize their losses. One farmers' union in western India offered $27 to anyone who could knock a government minister out cold with an onion. The late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi once dislodged a socialist government by making rising onion prices the centerpiece of her political campaign. Mindful of such precedents, the country's leaders have made the onion crisis a priority -- but so far, not to great effect. ''A nation that boasts of impressive achievements in nuclear research cannot be without the resources and expertise that planning of crop production will call for,'' the mass circulation Indian Express said Saturday in an editorial. In New Delhi, frustrated onion-lovers line up and jostle for hours outside government shops to get their allotment, which is often of suspect quality. ''Ordinarily I wouldn't touch onions as bad as these, but there's no choice -- I can't buy the ones selling in the open market,'' said software programmer Pradyumna Modi, standing in a long line outside the government's Mother Dairy vegetable store in Noida, near New Delhi. Each person is allowed only a bit more than 2 pounds per week, and elaborate records are maintained to make sure buyers don't receive more than their ration. Earlier in the week, onion-hungry mobs looted a government vegetable storage building and a truck loaded with the bulb. A popular Indian satirist had his own solution. Jaspal Bhatti said he had asked Bombay's police for sharpshooter protection on onion outings. ''I could be killed for onions by a mob, you know,'' he told the private Zee television network on Friday. Copyright 1998 The New York Times Company

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (16281)	10/12/1998 8:49:00 AM
From: Rajala	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

Mqurice, >GSM must be starting to suffer from "We'll wait to see >what 3G will be before we choose between cdmaOne and GSM" syndrome >as new systems are considered. Let's not get carried away in our enthusiasm. No matter what there will be a 3G continuation for GSM and it will be the 3G system that will be most widely installed. Convergence to other systems or not. That's because GSM is most widely installed wireless system and will remain so. And every new operator knows this. Q has a credible business case in CDMA1 and its 3G (convergence or not), PE is not bad, and there is a tremendous upside if the infamous IPR case proves to hold. But forget the GSM bashing, that is complete baloney. - rajala