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To: kech who wrote (18112)	11/15/1998 2:28:00 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

*Long fascinating post* Re Schmidt. At the time of his appointment to Primeco [I don't think it was Sprint] it seemed odd and I wondered if he was a 'plant' to stop the adoption of what was then IS-95. It turned out that was what he did and was subsequently fired. I have no idea whether he was genuine or not, but his background seemed absurd - like putting the fox in charge of the hen house. Re: Omnipoint bid-rigging, L M Ericsson employees arrested for tender impropriety in Mexico, Motorola guy steals a plastic housing from QUALCOMM, L M Ericsson saying CMDA no good though they claim to have invented CDMA. What a gang of muck. Looks as though the VW-40 chip rate is misleading rot to try to put people off cdmaOne. What is amazing is that anyone believes anything they say. We can only judge Saddam Hussein by his actions [expect ALL of them to be bad], similarly we have to assume L M Ericsson and company operate on principles of deceit, delay, untruth, greed and power. Moving to *OT* The Europeans do get into banana bend specification. I sat in meetings with the Eurocrats in Brussels in the 1980s to discuss fuel specifications. Diesel in Stockholm needs to be different from diesel in Spanish long distance haulage and different for Milano pollution reduction. They also do trade inhibiting specification to favour particular suppliers, such as GSM being the only one allowed. Meanwhile, the anti-free-trade USA continues to put pressure on New Zealand to reduce free market activity here by introducing trade restrictive laws to prevent parallel importing. Rajala is right - the USA is no innocent in trade, nor a particularly enthusiastic exponent of free trade overall, though a LOT more oriented in that direction than most countries. For example, I remain convinced that Iraq is suffering a conspiracy of oil interests who benefit by the trillion by having Iraq unable to export oil for nearly a decade. In the 1980s, a BP Oil colleague and I were discussing oil, pricing, trends etc and agreed that the best way to get an increase in crude oil prices and oil company profitability was to put a bullet through the middle east. Hey Presto! A couple of years later and that buffoon Hussein was conned by the USA into thinking he could get away with taking over Kuwait. Oooops a daisy. Changed our minds. But of course, he wasn't going to back down. Even before the fighting started I think he was asking that sanctions be lifted if they retreated, which puzzled me because I was sure they would be. Now, 8 years later, we still have sanctions. The UN and pals either require disarmament of Iraq or they don't. If they do, just go in with plenty of arms and do the job, giving Iraq a compulsory Japanese style imposed constitution and democracy. Occupy the place and fund the occupation with oil sales. If they don't demand disarmament, then leave Saddam to get on with killing the population in the thousands and allow him to sell his oil. Shooting up a few palaces and Republican guards won't do much. He loves it! Makes him feel the centre of the world. Getting him would be nice, and would enable some other tyrant to get the upper hand for a while. Uday would probably arrange the murder of his brother and take over, though being paralyzed makes it problematic. Maybe his brother will kill him! What a grotesque place. Meanwhile, oil remains cheap. And the USA military machine will get a bit of target practise and potential wayward states will get a lesson on who is boss in the world today. Hmmm, I hope the USA isn't too upset at NZ's bid for free trade and parallel importing as part of that. Can countries have TOO much freedom and democracy to be acceptable to the USA? We do still have antinuclear laws, which the USA grumbles about. I reckon UN should invade Iraq and Kuwait, funding all expenses from the oil in Iraq and Kuwait. Set up a democratic state to cover both countries, which would enable more equitable sharing of oil revenue among a larger population. Maybe make Baghdad a UN Middle East regional headquarters. Then establish a democratic UN constitution so We The People actually have a say in it. At present it's a silly top powers veto shop with no sensible constitution. Then we can all live happily ever after. Kuwait wasn't really a country anyway until the British or somebody drew an arbitrary line around it. Mqurice