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To: bananawind who wrote (26496)	4/8/1999 3:02:00 PM
From: Sawtooth	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 152472

Attention all Old Timers. Just curious; did everybody hang on to their LWIN? Looks like it's shaping up to be a fine little company.

To: bananawind who wrote (26496)	4/8/1999 11:17:00 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 152472

Leap Wireless International - LWIN + Kosovo/UN Yes, hanging on to it. Book value was about $12 so there wasn't much point in selling until now. There are good prospects for them, so I'll just put them aside for a rainy day. Also, it's fun to see the outcome of the C-block, NextWave and so on. I haven't figured out the business really, so don't have an opinion on their likely success compared with Q! and GSTRF which are going to be bounding successes. Well, Q! already has been. Mqurice {oops, replied to the wrong post - Jim asked if anyone was keeping Leap. Using Browsemaster got me tangled up.} PS: Meanwhile, Milosevic has obviously come up with a really cool strategy. I think the plan is to cause an invasion of ground troops from Nato and maybe then get a UN peacekeeping force with a negotiated semi-autonomous position for Kosovo with guaranteed security for Serbs living there against the Moslems who will no doubt want to get an Ayatollah or two to keep them on top and the women under a veil. Sure there is a bit of a mess at the moment, but look how well Germany and Japan did once there were ground troops and investments flowing back and forth from the rest of the world. Without this strategy, Serbia [and Kosovo] would have just remained an isolated backwater messing around with antiquated communist infrastructure and a peasant lifestyle for the most part. Now they can leap straight into the 21st century as the harbinger of The New World Order. If they are lucky, they'll become the first state of the United Nations. Milosevic is apparently a very intelligent, organized and determined person, so this strategy would get him a great place in history and huge economic progress for Serbia with protection against Moslems, Turkey, Russia, Germany, France or whatever. It's a really nice country and geographically positioned to do very well under UN sovereignty.