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To: jhild who wrote (18079)	1/5/1999 6:06:00 PM
From: Moonray	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 22053

Bill Gates pie throwers fined by Belgian court Reuters - Tuesday January 5 11:21 AM ET BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Two people who threw custard pies at Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates in Brussels last February have been fined by a Belgian court. The two, who were not identified, were fined by the Police Court on Monday, a spokeswoman for the Public Prosecutor's Office said on Tuesday. She said she could not detail the amount of the fines. Belgian newspaper La Derniere Heure reported that the two pie throwers had each received fines of 3,000 Belgian francs ($87.72). Gates was visiting Brussels following a meeting with world and business leaders in Switzerland when the attack occurred. On Monday in Amsterdam, Dutch Finance Minister Gerrit Zalm was the victim of a similar pie-throwing attack at the opening of the Amsterdam Stock Exchange to inaugurate trading in the euro. The attackers were from a group using the acronym TAART (Against authoritarian anti-revolutionary characters), which means cake in Dutch. They distributed leaflets saying the euro was anti-democratic and only beneficial to companies. Seems to me that instead of fining these two, they should have been sentenced to explaining to prospective buyers the advatages of Win'98 over Win'95. o~~~ O