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To: long-gone who wrote (29086)2/26/1999 1:12:00 PM
From: John Hunt  Respond to of 116756
 
Arab States Not Ready For Y2K Bug, U.N. Says

<< Most of the Middle East's Arab states are ill-prepared for the millennium bug, which could hit the region's oil industry and cut off fresh water supplies, a U.N. official said Friday.

Mohammed Mrayati, science and technology adviser for the U.N. Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), told Reuters in an interview that few countries in the region had thought about the problem, let along drawn up plans to avoid it. -- cont'd -- >>

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