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From: mike
Subject: Re: _name_ of the european currency
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 21:45:25 GMT

In article <1992Oct9.112027.27926@odin.diku.dk>, rossen@diku.dk (Peter Rossen Skadhauge) writes:
|> olevi@daimi.aau.dk (Ole Villumsen) writes:
|> 
|> >'Ecu' is alright with me. In Denmark most people use a close-to-French
|> >pronounciation.
|> >  But one ecu is more than a US dollar, so we will need the ability of
|> >dividing it into smaller units. (Let me suggest splitting it into
|> >100 of the smaller unit. :-) And then we'll need a name for the small ones,
|> >the 'centi-ecu's. (Centi-ecu is not the right word, is it?)
|> 
|> Member of the EC Commission Henning Christophersen once proposed
|> 'ecu-lette' for a name of a 1/100 ECU.
|> 
|> A brilliant purpose of this newsgroup would be the one of suggesting
|> a somewhat better name. -?

ecu-light?

mike
From: Onno.Meyer@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (Onno Meyer)
Newsgroups: alt.politics.europe.misc
Subject: _name_ of the european currency
Date: 8 Oct 92 10:51:38 GMT
Organization: University of Oldenburg, Germany

I support the idea of a common european currency, but I'm a little
"unlucky" to have mark, pound, etc. replaced by an currency called
"currency unit". Don't you think that a real name, and not some funny
abbreviation, could increase the public acceptance of the common
european currency?
-- 
* Onno Meyer - Kastanienallee 40 - 2900 Oldenburg - Deutschland  *
*     e-mail: Onno.Meyer@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de        *
* Mathe-Student, und auch etwas Informatik...                    *
From: fischer@iesd.auc.dk (Lars Peter Fischer)
Newsgroups: alt.politics.europe.misc
Subject: Re: _name_ of the european currency
Date: 10 Oct 92 07:20:12 GMT
	<1992Oct9.091528.21395@daimi.aau.dk> <1b51ubINNav8@fido.asd.sgi.com>
Organization: Mathematics and Computer Science, Aalborg University


>>>>> "Jon" == Jon Livesey (livesey@solntze.wpd.sgi.com)

Jon> Or we could just wait for inflation to solve the problem.

Not fair. While it would solve the problem quickly in some EC
countries, it would take a long time in other countries. 

Ahem.

/Lars
--
Lars Fischer, fischer@iesd.auc.dk | It takes an uncommon mind to think of
CS Dept., Aalborg Univ., DENMARK. | these things.  -- Calvin
Newsgroups: alt.politics.europe.misc
From: junikka@cat13.cs.wisc.edu (Jari Junikka)
Subject: Re: _name_ of the european currency
Organization: Dept of Mathematics, Uni of Wisconsin-Madison
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 04:25:43 GMT

In article <1992Oct9.214525.6521@kth.se> mike writes:
>
>ecu-light?
>
>mike


Then everyone in US will think that ECU is some kind of European beer.

jari

Newsgroups: alt.politics.europe.misc
From: dennis@metw3.met.fu-berlin.de (Dennis Schulze)
Subject: Re: _name_ of the european currency
Organization: Free University of Berlin, Germany
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 12:23:39 GMT

|> p.s.: This is not my idea... Mr. Waigel, Germany's finance minister 
|> supposed this during a session of the German Bundestag this week.
   --------
Sorry, I mean 'proposed' of course.
 
---
Dennis Schulze                               Free University of Berlin
Johannisthaler Ch. 361                       Department of Meteorology
W - 1000 Berlin 47                       dennis@metw3.met.fu-berlin.de
Germany                               dennis@marie.physik.tu-berlin.de
From: jetson@vab02.larc.nasa.gov (Greg Fruth (JIAFS))
Newsgroups: alt.politics.europe.misc
Subject: Re: _name_ of the european currency
Date: 15 Oct 1992 15:30:00 GMT
Organization: VAB, NASA Langley
NNTP-Posting-Host: vab02.larc.nasa.gov

In article <dennis.719064929@marie> dennis@marie.physik.tu-berlin.de (Dennis Schulze) writes:
>In <BvyMI3.89C@cs.psu.edu> beaver@castor.cs.psu.edu (Don Beaver) writes:
>
>>Which term would you use in mixed company? I can imagine offending 
>>a non-German by using "Euro-Mark," for example.  And what would we
>>Americans call it?  (Don't say you couldn't care less!  :-)  The term 
>>"eurodollar" already exists.  There would still have to be a unified
>>name.
>
>Good question. I could live with the ECU as a short form for 

[etc.]

According to my (American English) dictionary, an "ecu"
(possibly with an acute accent on the "e") is a old type of French
currency used in the 17th century.  Then the French get to use a native
French word for this new type of currency, while everybody else has to
adjust.  Is this a coincidence?





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From: 75300.3115@compuserve.com (Clinton for President)
Newsgroups: alt.politics.usa.misc
Subject: CLINTON ACCEPTS DEBATE INVITATION -- AGAIN
Date: 10 Oct 92 05:49:03 GMT

[file date 9/29/92]


            CLINTON ACCEPTS DEBATE INVITATION -- AGAIN

      Little Rock, AR.  On behalf of Governor Bill Clinton,
 Clinton/Gore Campaign Chairman Mickey Kantor today accepted the
 proposal of the bipartisan Commission on Presidential Debates to
 sponsor two presidential debates on October 4 and October 15, 1992.

      "The American people need and deserve presidential debates,"
 Kantor maintained.  "Governor Clinton was present in East Lansing and
 is present in Louisville ready to debate President Bush."

      Kantor stated, "We accept the Commission's proposal for two
 presidential debates to be held on October 4 and October 15 using the
 Commission's proposed format.  We also accept your invitation to the
 two campaigns to meet under your auspices prior to the debates."
 Kantor noted that the Clinton/Gore campaign has accepted the
 Commission's earlier proposals.

      The letter notes that in addition to rejecting the Commission's
 proposal, the Bush/Quayle campaign has rejected two separate offers
 by the Commission to meet and discuss any differences between the
 campaigns.

      In closing Kantor asserted, "In this election year, the nation
 faces truly watershed issues critical to its future.  The American
 people, who finance the general election campaign, are entitled to an
 open and frank discussion of these issues in a face-to-face setting
 between the candidates for president."

                              --30--



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From: 75300.3115@compuserve.com (Clinton for President)
Newsgroups: alt.politics.usa.misc
Subject: STATEMENT BY ADMIRAL WILLIAM CROWE
Date: 13 Oct 92 22:14:27 GMT


 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
 OCTOBER 13, 1992

                STATEMENT BY ADMIRAL WILLIAM CROWE


   Given the latest news that the Bush Administration is going to get
 rid of their top economic advisors, I can understand that Marlin
 Fitzwater has become an expert on White House firings.

   However, his suggestion that my endorsement of Governor Clinton
 stems from my being "fired" from my position as Chairman of the Joint
 Chiefs of Staff is dead wrong.

   The facts are that, as my second two-year term was coming to a
 close in 1989, President Bush personally asked me to stay on as
 Chairman.  I was deeply honored to have this vote of confidence from
 the President.  However, I decided that 47 years in uniform was quite
 enough for any man, and I declined the President's offer.

   Marlin Fitzwater was the President's spokesman when all this was
 happening.  The President's efforts to have me stay on were widely
 reported in the press.  I can only conclude that Mr. Fitzwater's
 misstatement of the truth of this situation was deliberate.

   It is precisely this pattern of campaign deception that convinces
 me that my support for Governor Clinton is the right decision for me
 and for the country.

                            -30-30-30-


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From: joshua@coombs.anu.edu.au (Joshua Geller)
Newsgroups: alt.politics.usa.misc,talk.politics.misc,alt.society.civil-liberty
Subject: Re: US regime keeps stacking elections against dissenting parties
Date: 16 Oct 92 07:52:03 GMT
Organization: Australian National University
NNTP-Posting-Host: 150.203.76.2

john@anasazi.com (John R. Moore) writes:

>In article <1992Oct12.120457.7458@nntp.hut.fi> jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)
writes:

>The US does not have a secret police. "rumors" is too kind a word for
>you to use.

you see! it's so secret you don't even know about it!

>]The regime has also previously used aggressive means to treat
>]candidates it dislikes, for example one candidate has long been
>]sitting in jail

this one must be lyndon larouche, currently imprisoned for tax evasion or
mopery with intent to gawk or something.

>]                  and one candidate from inside the governing party with
>]unpopular views was promtly arrested when he tried to speak at a
>]convention of the branch of the governing party known as the "good
>]cop" branch (from a technique known as "good cop - bad cop routine"
>]which the governing regime has allegedly adopted from the movie world
>]in exchange for functioning as a recycling bin for actors the movie
>]world wants to get rid of), or "the Democratic party" in the regime's
>]parlance.

>Care to get specific? This sounds pretty absurd to me.

indeed. I am unable to determine the subject of this more than usually 
incoherent passage. whom might it be?

josh
From: gak@wrs.com (Richard Stueven)
Subject: Re: Bob Dornan on Bill Clinton - IMPORTANT
Reply-To: gak@wrs.com
Organization: Wind River Systems, Inc.
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 16:21:26 GMT

In article 16611@andromeda.rutgers.edu, detrolio@andromeda.rutgers.edu (David De Trolio) writes:
>George Washington admitted what he did.

Wasn't it actually Washington Irving that "reported" the cherry-tree story?

An early instance of media manipulation...

---
Richard Stueven        gak@wrs.com         attmail!gakhaus!gak        107/H/3&4

How can you be ignorant of something you didn't know in the first place?
                                                      - Choo
From: 75300.3115@compuserve.com (Clinton for President)
Newsgroups: alt.politics.usa.misc
Subject: "A DAY TO RALLY FOR REFORM": OCTOBER 14
Date: 13 Oct 92 22:17:36 GMT


 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
 October 13, 1992

              "A DAY TO RALLY FOR REFORM": OCTOBER 14
        Democratic Leaders and Reform Advocates Rally Behind
             Clinton Agenda to Enact Health Care Reform

      In an unprecedented show of support, on Wednesday, October 14,
 Democratic leaders, health care advocates, citizens groups, business
 and labor leaders will gather in every state across the nation to
 rally behind the Clinton agenda to enact health care reform.

      They will join in asserting the need for Governor Bill Clinton's
 leadership in the White House and reaffirm their commitment to work
 with him in the first 100 days of a new Administration to move
 forward quickly on comprehensive health care reform.

      Events will also launch a Women's Health Care Week to bring
 attention to Bill Clinton and Al Gore's commitment to improving
 women's health.

      "Together, we will deliver a message to the country that
 Democrats, led by Bill Clinton, will break the gridlock and 'deliver'
 on comprehensive health care reform," said Senator Jay Rockefeller
 (D-WV), National Co-Chair of the Clinton-Gore Campaign and organizer
 of the Day to Rally for Reform.

      Governor Bill Clinton will release a statement to acknowledge
 the national demonstration of support for his efforts to reform the
 health care system.

      October 14th efforts in all 50 states:  The day's efforts to
 support the Clinton health care agenda include:

 *    Pittsburgh, PA. -- 12:00 noon, Market Square -- Democratic Vice
      Presidential Candidate Al Gore will join Senate Majority Leader
      George Mitchell (D-ME),  Senator Harris Wofford (D-PA),
      Democratic Senate Candidate Lynn Yeakel and others for the
      noontime rally.

 *    Portland, OR. -- 8:15 AM PDT, Oregon Convention Center, 777N.E.
      Martin Luther King Blvd. -- Governor Howard Dean (VT)will
      participate in a health care forum.

 *    Los Angeles, CA. -- 2:00 PM PDT, Venice Family Clinic, 604Rose
      Ave. --  Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV), will joinSenator Edward
      M. Kennedy (D- MA), Representatives MaxineWaters, Henry Waxman
      and others for a tour of the clinic.

 *    St. Louis, MO. -- 3:30 PM CST, Carpenters Hall -- House Majority
      Leader Dick Gephardt and Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell
      will join Senate Candidate Geri Rothman-Serot, Representative
      Joan Kelly Horn (MO) and others for a press conference.

 *    Efforts in other states:  Democratic Governors, Senators,
      Representatives and other leaders, health care advocates,
      citizen groups, doctors, nurses, business leaders and labor
      leaders in all other states will participate in health care
      events.

 Contact the regional Clinton/Gore office in your area for more
 information.

                             -- 30 --


Newsgroups: alt.politics.usa.misc,alt.politics.usa.constitution,talk.politics.misc
From: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)
Subject: [misc.legal] Re: Carjacking as a federal offense
Reply-To: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 17:18:05 GMT

A repost from misc.legal:

From: jsp@uts.amdahl.com (James Preston)
Subject: Re: Carjacking as a federal offense
Date: 13 Oct 92 17:06:23 GMT
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA

tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com (Terry Carroll) writes:

}I was wondering the same thing.  Here's the proposed addition to Title 18:

}"2119.  Carjacking
}  "(a) Whoever, by force and violence, or by intimidation, takes or
}attempts to take a motor vehicle, that has been transported, shipped, or
}received in interstate or foreign commerce, from the person or presence
}of another,  shall be fined under this title, or imprisoned not more than
}15 years, or both."

Wow, I knew that Congress liked to abuse the commerce clause, but doesn't
this set a rather sweeping precedent?  I mean, given that almost anything
that one can buy these days "has been transported, shipped, or received in
interstate or foreign commerce", Congress could make virtually all theft
a federal crime, couldn't they?  For that matter, they could gather under
federal jurisdiction any crime that involves a "transported" object.  Am
I the only one who finds this scary?  (I know, it's just another step in
the ongoing erosion of the power of the individual states, but this just 
seems so blatant.)

--James Preston
From: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)
Subject: [alt.activism et al] USA: police brutality towards dissidents
Summary: non-party members in USA arrested and beaten by the regime
Reply-To: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 14:52:43 GMT

A repost from alt.activism,talk.politics.drugs,talk.politics.guns:

From: atfurman@cup.portal.com (A T Furman)
Subject: Springtime for Honecker (part II)
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 92 11:55:38 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

NEWS RELEASE
St. Louis, Missouri

Local Contact: Steve Dasbach, David Carr - 314-330-2018

October 11, 1992
4:30 PM CST

                  LIBERTARIAN CANDIDATE ARRESTED, BEATEN


St. Louis -- Robert Stockhausen, District 3 Congressional Candidate of the
Libertarian Party, was arrested at approximately 4pm CST for taking
pictures of Marrou supporters from beyond a police line.

Nearly a dozen armed officers brutalized Mr. Stockhausen spraying him
with mace, kicking him and dragging him across the ground.

Stockhausen, a family man with a wife and five children, considers himself a
pacifist and did not resist.

Over two hundred supporters of Libertarian Presidential Candidate Andre
Marrou are participating in a demonstration in St. Louis to protest
Marrou's exclusion from the debates.  Marrou is on the ballot in all fifty
states DC and Guam.

                                - END -




    Alan T. Furman         | VOTE LIBERTARIAN!!  Marrou/Lord in 92!!
---------------------------+----------------------------------------
  atfurman@cup.portal.com  |   (800)682-1776 for more information
Newsgroups: alt.politics.usa.misc,talk.politics.misc
From: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)
Subject: [talk.politics.drugs] Libertarian presidential candidate Andre Marrou on Larry King 10/12
Reply-To: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 14:37:43 GMT

A repost from talk.politics.drugs:

From: gag65@cas.org ()
Subject: Libertarian presidential candidate Andre Marrou on Larry King 10/12
Organization: Chemical Abstracts Service, Columbus, Ohio
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 20:09:01 GMT

This has already been posted to the alt.politics.libertarian and
alt.politics.marrou groups, but for those interested in hearing the Libertarian
Candidate for president, Andre Marrou, he will be on CNN's Larry King show
tonight (10/12) at 9:00. Eastern.  He will probably be on during the second half
of the show.

Marrou will no doubt be talking about being the only one of the four candidates
on the ballot in all 50 states who was not invited to the debates.  He will also
most likely discuss Libertarian solutions to current problems and the
differences between his ideas and those of the other three candidates.

PS.  Andre Marrou is _adamantly_ opposed to the criminalization of drugs.

--Gary
~
From: Clinton for President <75300.3115@compuserve.com>
Newsgroups: alt.politics.usa.misc
Subject: On the first debate among the presidential candidates
Date: 12 Oct 92 01:16:18 GMT


 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:                      
 OCTOBER 11, 1992




                   Statement of SEN. AL GORE
        On the first debate among the presidential candidates

 George Bush finished fourth -- behind Bill Clinton, who was the clear
 winner, in expressing a plan for economic recovery, behind Ross Perot
 in an understanding of why the economy is in trouble, and even behind
 Jim Lehrer, the debate's moderator, in an ability to present a plan
 for America's future.

 If anyone doubted it before, they can't any longer: it's time for
 change and it's time for George Bush and Dan Quayle to go. America
 needs the leadership, ideas, energy, and courage Bill Clinton offered
 during tonight's debate and offers America in this election.

 With the attention of the nation focused on him, George Bush failed
 to provide the American people with a single reason to re- elect him
 or a single idea to get our economy moving again and create jobs.
 George Bush offered more of the same: the same stale, tired policies
 that have brought us recession and cost us jobs.

 George Bush kept the American people waiting for nothing. Anyone who
 hoped this debate would give them a reason to vote for Bush and
 Quayle is going to sleep tonight planning to vote for Bill Clinton
 and Al Gore. And, for good reason. Bill Clinton reached out to the
 American people with a plan for change and economic recovery, with a
 reason for hope and a genuine commitment to putting people first.


                                ###


Newsgroups: alt.politics.usa.misc
From: budd@playfair.Stanford.EDU (David Budd)
Subject: Re: GORE BLASTS STATE DEPT WITCH-HUNT AS OUTRAGEOUS
Organization: Stanford University
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 92 19:31:58 GMT




"The other day I saw an empty limosine pull up and Al Gore got out."

-Pat Paulsen, 1988.
From: livesey@solntze.wpd.sgi.com (Jon Livesey)
Newsgroups: alt.politics.usa.misc
Subject: Re: Bob Dornan on Bill Clinton - IMPORTANT
Date: 9 Oct 1992 03:47:20 GMT
Organization: sgi
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: solntze.wpd.sgi.com

In article <Oct.4.01.08.38.1992.21416@andromeda.rutgers.edu>, detrolio@andromeda.rutgers.edu (David De Trolio) writes:
>
>      This is the same Bill Clinton who, while at Oxford, sought
> information on either obtaining dual citizenship or obtaining
> British citizenship.
> 
>     Is this the individual the American people should send to
> The White House?

Interesting irony in the news today.   Willi Brandt, architect
of the opening to the East, and a man who has some claim to 
have helped bring about the end of the cold war, and who won 
the Nobel Peace Prize, died.

This is the same Willi Brandt who left Germany in protest
against a war he considered unjust, and who took up Norwegian
citizenship.

jon.
Newsgroups: alt.politics.usa.misc
From: totty@flute.cs.uiuc.edu (Brian Totty)
Subject: ??? David Duke Election Results ???
Organization: Picasso Group, DCS, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 19:41:35 GMT

	I am trying to find the election results from the last Louisiana
	gubernatorial election.  If I understand correctly, there was an
	initial election between Roemer, Edwards, Duke... and a run-off
	between Duke and Edwards which Edwards won.

	Can some kind souls provide me with answers to any of the following
	questions?

	(1) What were the dates of these elections?
	(2) What percentage of votes went to each candidate?
	(3) How did the polls show vote distribution votes along racial lines?

					Thanks Very Much For Any Help,


					--- Brian

   /                       Brian Totty             o o
  /__  __  o     Department of Computer Science     o  
 /  / /   /          1304 W. Springfield Ave       \_/  "We have corn in
/__/ /   /               Urbana, IL 61801                Massachusetts too!"
                        totty@cs.uiuc.edu
From: detrolio@andromeda.rutgers.edu (David De Trolio)
Newsgroups: alt.politics.usa.misc
Subject: Re: Bob Dornan on Bill Clinton - IMPORTANT
Date: 9 Oct 92 02:17:19 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

gak@wrs.com (Richard Stueven) writes:

>In article 16611@andromeda.rutgers.edu, detrolio@andromeda.rutgers.edu (David De Trolio) writes:
>>George Washington admitted what he did.

>Wasn't it actually Washington Irving that "reported" the cherry-tree story?

>An early instance of media manipulation...

Since both are dead, they cannot comment.  But Bill Clinton is very much
with us, and he should come out and explain, point blank what is the 
story, and stick with one story and one explanation of his actions.

If he wants the trust of the American people, let him come out and
be honest with the American people.  He is positioning himself very
poorly.


-- 
---------------------------------
     David De Trolio
---------------------------------
(detrolio@andromeda.rutgers.edu)
Newsgroups: alt.politics.usa.misc
From: cser@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Erin Render)
Subject: Re: Bob Dornan on Bill Clinton - IMPORTANT
Organization: Educational Computing Network
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 18:32:56 GMT

In article <Oct.4.01.08.38.1992.21416@andromeda.rutgers.edu> detrolio@andromeda.rutgers.edu (David De Trolio) writes:
>
>     Rep. Bob Dornan has been speaking on C-Span in the House
>live concerning Bill Clinton and his anti-war, anti-Vietnam
>protests during his college days.

Any one who chooses to watch or listen to Mr. Dornan while he "speaks"
about Bill Clinton's activities should also keep in mind that Rep.
Dornan's "facts" do not have to be true.  Representatives are able to
say ANYTHING without proof while they have the floor.

Also note--the rest of the chamber has been empty during his speeches
about Gov. Clinton.


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