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> Another perspective
>
> > 'Brutality smeared in peanut butter'
> >
> > Why America must stop the war now. By Arundhati Roy
> >
> > Tuesday October 23, 2001
> >
> > As darkness deepened over Afghanistan on Sunday
> > October 7 2001, the US government, backed by the
> > International Coalition Against Terror (the new,
> > amenable surrogate for the United Nations), launched
> > air strikes against Afghanistan. TV channels
> > lingered on computer-animated images of cruise
> > missiles, stealth bombers, tomahawks,
> > "bunker-busting" missiles and Mark 82 high drag
> > bombs. All over the world, little boys watched
> > goggle-eyed and stopped clamouring for new video
> > games.
> > The UN, reduced now to an ineffective acronym,
> > wasn't even asked to mandate the air strikes. (As
> > Madeleine Albright once said, "We will behave
> > multilaterally when we can, and unilaterally when we
> > must.") The "evidence" against the terrorists was
> > shared amongst friends in the "coalition".
> > After conferring, they announced that it didn1t
> > matter whether or not the "evidence" would stand up
> > in a court of law. Thus, in an instant, were
> > centuries of jurisprudence carelessly trashed.
> > Nothing can excuse or justify an act of terrorism,
> > whether it is committed by religious
> > fundamentalists, private militia, people's
> > resistance movements - or whether it's dressed up as
> > a war of retribution by a recognised government. The
> > bombing of Afghanistan is not revenge for New York
> > and Washington. It is yet another act of terror
> > against the people of the world.
> > Each innocent person that is killed must be added
> > to, not set off against, the grisly toll of
> > civilians who died in New York and Washington.
> > People rarely win wars, governments rarely lose
> > them. People get killed.
> > Governments moult and regroup, hydra-headed. They
> > use flags first to shrink-wrap people's minds and
> > smother thought, and then as ceremonial shrouds to
> > bury their willing dead. On both sides, in
> > Afghanistan as well as America, civilians are now
> > hostage to the actions of their own governments.
> > Unknowingly, ordinary people in both countries share
> > a common bond - they have to live with the
> > phenomenon of blind, unpredictable terror. Each
> > batch of bombs that is dropped on Afghanistan is
> > matched by a corresponding escalation of mass
> > hysteria in America about anthrax, more hijackings
> > and other terrorist acts.
> > There is no easy way out of the spiralling morass of
> > terror and brutality that confronts the world today.
> > It is time now for the human race to hold still, to
> > delve into its wells of collective wisdom, both
> > ancient and modern. What happened on September 11
> > changed the world forever.
> > Freedom, progress, wealth, technology, war - these
> > words have taken on new meaning.
> > Governments have to acknowledge this transformation,
> > and approach their new tasks with a modicum of
> > honesty and humility. Unfortunately, up to now,
> > there has been no sign of any introspection from the
> > leaders of the International Coalition. Or the
> > Taliban.
> > When he announced the air strikes, President George
> > Bush said: "We're a peaceful nation." America1s
> > favourite ambassador, Tony Blair, (who also holds
> > the portfolio of prime minister of the UK), echoed
> > him: "We're a peaceful people."
> > So now we know. Pigs are horses. Girls are boys. War
> > is peace.
> > Speaking at the FBI headquarters a few days later,
> > President Bush said: "This is our calling. This is
> > the calling of the United States of America. The
> > most free nation in the world. A nation built on
> > fundamental values that reject hate, reject
> > violence, rejects murderers and rejects evil. We
> > will not tire."
> > Here is a list of the countries that America has
> > been at war with - and bombed - since the second
> > world war: China (1945-46, 1950-53), Korea
> > (1950-53), Guatemala (1954, 1967-69), Indonesia
> > (1958), Cuba (1959-60), the Belgian Congo (1964),
> > Peru (1965), Laos (1964-73), Vietnam (1961-73),
> > Cambodia (1969-70), Grenada (1983), Libya (1986), El
> > Salvador (1980s), Nicaragua (1980s), Panama (1989),
> > Iraq (1991-99), Bosnia (1995), Sudan (1998),
> > Yugoslavia (1999). And now Afghanistan.
> > Certainly it does not tire - this, the most free
> > nation in the world.
> > What freedoms does it uphold? Within its borders,
> > the freedoms of speech, religion, thought; of
> > artistic expression, food habits, sexual preferences
> > (well, to some extent) and many other exemplary,
> > wonderful things.
> > Outside its borders, the freedom to dominate,
> > humiliate and subjugate  usually in the service
> > of America1s real religion, the "free market". So
> > when the US government christens a war "Operation
> > Infinite Justice", or "Operation Enduring Freedom",
> > we in the third world feel more than a tremor of
> > fear.
> > Because we know that Infinite Justice for some means
> > Infinite Injustice for others. And Enduring Freedom
> > for some means Enduring Subjugation for others.
> > The International Coalition Against Terror is a
> > largely cabal of the richest countries in the world.
> > Between them, they manufacture and sell almost all
> > of the world's weapons, they possess the largest
> > stockpile of weapons of mass destruction - chemical,
> > biological and nuclear. They have fought the most
> > wars, account for most of the genocide, subjection,
> > ethnic cleansing and human rights violations in
> > modern history, and have sponsored, armed and
> > financed untold numbers of dictators and despots.
> > Between them, they have worshipped, almost deified,
> > the cult of violence and war. For all its appalling
> > sins, the Taliban just isn't in the same league.
> > The Taliban was compounded in the crumbling crucible
> > of rubble, heroin and landmines in the backwash of
> > the cold war. Its oldest leaders are in their early
> > 40s. Many of them are disfigured and handicapped,
> > missing an eye, an arm or a leg. They grew up in a
> > society scarred and devastated by war.
> > Between the Soviet Union and America, over 20 years,
> > about $45bn (?30bn) worth of arms and ammunition was
> > poured into Afghanistan. The latest weaponry was the
> > only shard of modernity to intrude upon a thoroughly
> > medieval society.
> > Young boys  many of them orphans - who grew up
> > in those times, had guns for toys, never knew the
> > security and comfort of family life, never
> > experienced the company of women. Now, as adults and
> > rulers, the Taliban beat, stone, rape and brutalise
> > women, they don't seem to know what else to do with
> > them.
> > Years of war has stripped them of gentleness, inured
> > them to kindness and human compassion. Now they've
> > turned their monstrosity on their own people.
> > They dance to the percussive rhythms of bombs
> > raining down around them.
> > With all due respect to President Bush, the people
> > of the world do not have to choose between the
> > Taliban and the US government. All the beauty of
> > human civilisation - our art, our music, our
> > literature - lies beyond these two fundamentalist,
> > ideological poles. There is as little chance that
> > the people of the world can all become middle-class
> > consumers as there is that they will all embrace any
> > one particular religion. The issue is not about good
> > v evil or Islam v Christianity as much as it is
> > about space. About how to accommodate diversity, how
> > to contain the impulse towards hegemony  every
> > kind of hegemony, economic, military, linguistic,
> > religious and cultural.
> > Any ecologist will tell you how dangerous and
> > fragile a monoculture is. A hegemonic world is like
> > having a government without a healthy opposition. It
> > becomes a kind of dictatorship. It1s like putting a
> > plastic bag over the world, and preventing it from
> > breathing. Eventually, it will be torn open.
> > One and a half million Afghan people lost their
> > lives in the 20 years of conflict that preceded this
> > new war. Afghanistan was reduced to rubble, and now,
> > the rubble is being pounded into finer dust. By the
> > second day of the air strikes, US pilots were
> > returning to their bases without dropping their
> > assigned payload of bombs. As one pilot put it,
> > Afghanistan is "not a target-rich environment". At a
> > press briefing at the Pentagon, Donald Rumsfeld, the
> > US defence secretary, was asked if America had run
> > out of targets.
> > "First we're going to re-hit targets," he said, "and
> > second, we're not running out of targets,
> > Afghanistan is ..." This was greeted with gales of
> > laughter in the briefing room.
> > By the third day of the strikes, the US defence
> > department boasted that it had "achieved air
> > supremacy over Afghanistan" (Did they mean that they
> > had destroyed both, or maybe all 16, of
> > Afghanistan's planes?)
> > On the ground in Afghanistan, the Northern Alliance
> > - the Taliban's old enemy, and therefore the
> > international coalition's newest friend - is making
> > headway in its push to capture Kabul. (For the
> > archives, let it be said that the Northern
> > Alliance's track record is not very different from
> > the Taliban's. But for now, because it's
> > inconvenient, that little detail is being glossed
> > over.) The visible, moderate, "acceptable" leader of
> > the alliance, Ahmed Shah Masud, was killed in a
> > suicide-bomb attack early in September. The rest of
> > the Northern Alliance is a brittle confederation of
> > brutal warlords, ex-communists and unbending
> > clerics. It is a disparate group divided along
> > ethnic lines, some of whom have tasted power in
> > Afghanistan in the past.
> > Until the US air strikes, the Northern Alliance
> > controlled about 5% of the geographical area of
> > Afghanistan. Now, with the coalition's help and "air
> > cover", it is poised to topple the Taliban.
> > Meanwhile, Taliban soldiers, sensing imminent
> > defeat, have begun to defect to the alliance. So the
> > fighting forces are busy switching sides and
> > changing uniforms. But in an enterprise as cynical
> > as this one, it seems to matter hardly at all.
> > Love is hate, north is south, peace is war.
> > Among the global powers, there is talk of "putting
> > in a representative government". Or, on the other
> > hand, of "restoring" the kingdom to Afghanistan's
> > 89-year old former king Zahir Shah, who has lived in
> > exile in Rome since 1973. That's the way the game
> > goes - support Saddam Hussein, then "take him out";
> > finance the mojahedin, then bomb them to
> > smithereens; put in Zahir Shah and see if he's going
> > to be a good boy. (Is it possible to "put in" a
> > representative government? Can you place an order
> > for democracy - with extra cheese and jalapeno
> > peppers?)
> > Reports have begun to trickle in about civilian
> > casualties, about cities emptying out as Afghan
> > civilians flock to the borders which have been
> > closed. Main arterial roads have been blown up or
> > sealed off. Those who have experience of working in
> > Afghanistan say that by early November, food convoys
> > will not be able to reach the millions of Afghans
> > (7.5m, according to the UN) who run the very real
> > risk of starving to death during the course of this
> > winter. They say that in the days that are left
> > before winter sets in, there can either be a war, or
> > an attempt to reach food to the hungry. Not both.
> > As a gesture of humanitarian support, the US
> > government air-dropped 37,000 packets of emergency
> > rations into Afghanistan. It says it plans to drop a
> > total of 500,000 packets. That will still only add
> > up to a single meal for half a million people out of
> > the several million in dire need of food.
> > Aid workers have condemned it as a cynical,
> > dangerous, public-relations exercise. They say that
> > air-dropping food packets is worse than futile.
> > First, because the food will never get to those who
> > really need it. More dangerously, those who run out
> > to retrieve the packets risk being blown up by
> > landmines. A tragic alms race.
> > Nevertheless, the food packets had a photo-op all to
> > themselves. Their contents were listed in major
> > newspapers. They were vegetarian, we're told, as per
> > Muslim dietary law (!) Each yellow packet, decorated
> > with the American flag, contained: rice, peanut
> > butter, bean salad, strawberry jam, crackers,
> > raisins, flat bread, an apple fruit bar, seasoning,
> > matches, a set of plastic cutlery, a serviette and
> > illustrated user instructions.
> > After three years of unremitting drought, an
> > air-dropped airline meal in Jalalabad! The level of
> > cultural ineptitude, the failure to understand what
> > months of relentless hunger and grinding poverty
> > really mean, the US government1s attempt to use even
> > this abject misery to boost its self-image, beggars
> > description.
> > Reverse the scenario for a moment. Imagine if the
> > Taliban government was to bomb New York City, saying
> > all the while that its real target was the US
> > government and its policies. And suppose, during
> > breaks between the bombing, the Taliban dropped a
> > few thousand packets containing nan and kebabs
> > impaled on an Afghan flag. Would the good people of
> > New York ever find it in themselves to forgive the
> > Afghan government? Even if they were hungry, even if
> > they needed the food, even if they ate it, how would
> > they ever forget the insult, the condescension? Rudi
> > Guiliani, Mayor of New York City, returned a gift of
> > $10m from a Saudi prince because it came with a few
> > words of friendly advice about American policy in
> > the Middle East. Is pride a luxury that only the
> > rich are entitled to?
> > Far from stamping it out, igniting this kind of rage
> > is what creates terrorism. Hate and retribution
> > don't go back into the box once you've let them out.
> > For every "terrorist" or his "supporter" that is
> > killed, hundreds of innocent people are being killed
> > too. And for every hundred innocent people killed,
> > there is a good chance that several future
> > terrorists will be created.
> > Where will it all lead?
> > Setting aside the rhetoric for a moment, consider
> > the fact that the world has not yet found an
> > acceptable definition of what "terrorism" is. One
> > country's terrorist is too often another1s freedom
> > fighter. At the heart of the matter lies the world's
> > deep-seated ambivalence towards violence.
> > Once violence is accepted as a legitimate political
> > instrument, then the morality and political
> > acceptability of terrorists (insurgents or freedom
> > fighters) becomes contentious, bumpy terrain. The US
> > government itself has funded, armed and sheltered
> > plenty of rebels and insurgents around the world.
> > The CIA and Pakistan's ISI trained and armed the
> > mojahedin who, in the 80s, were seen as terrorists
> > by the government in Soviet-occupied Afghanistan.
> > Today, Pakistan - America's ally in this new war -
> > sponsors insurgents who cross the border into
> > Kashmir in India. Pakistan lauds them as
> > "freedom-fighters", India calls them "terrorists".
> > India, for its part, denounces countries who sponsor
> > and abet terrorism, but the Indian army has, in the
> > past, trained separatist Tamil rebels asking for a
> > homeland in Sri Lanka - the LTTE, responsible for
> > countless acts of bloody terrorism.
> > (Just as the CIA abandoned the mujahideen after they
> > had served its purpose, India abruptly turned its
> > back on the LTTE for a host of political reasons. It
> > was an enraged LTTE suicide bomber who assassinated
> > former Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi in 1989.)
> > It is important for governments and politicians to
> > understand that manipulating these huge, raging
> > human feelings for their own narrow purposes may
> > yield instant results, but eventually and
> > inexorably, they have disastrous consequences.
> > Igniting and exploiting religious sentiments for
> > reasons of political expediency is the most
> > dangerous legacy that governments or politicians can
> > bequeath to any people - including their own.
> > People who live in societies ravaged by religious or
> > communal bigotry know that every religious text -
> > from the Bible to the Bhagwad Gita - can be mined
> > and misinterpreted to justify anything, from nuclear
> > war to genocide to corporate globalisation.
> > This is not to suggest that the terrorists who
> > perpetrated the outrage on September 11 should not
> > be hunted down and brought to book. They must be.
> > But is war the best way to track them down? Will
> > burning the haystack find you the needle? Or will it
> > escalate the anger and make the world a living hell
> > for all of us?
> > At the end of the day, how many people can you spy
> > on, how many bank accounts can you freeze, how many
> > conversations can you eavesdrop on, how many emails
> > can you intercept, how many letters can you open,
> > how many phones can you tap? Even before September
> > 11, the CIA had accumulated more information than is
> > humanly possible to process. (Sometimes, too much
> > data can actually hinder intelligence - small wonder
> > the US spy satellites completely missed the
> > preparation that preceded India's nuclear tests in
> > 1998.)
> > The sheer scale of the surveillance will become a
> > logistical, ethical and civil rights nightmare. It
> > will drive everybody clean crazy. And freedom - that
> > precious, precious thing - will be the first
> > casualty. It's already hurt and haemorrhaging
> > dangerously.
> > Governments across the world are cynically using the
> > prevailing paranoia to promote their own interests.
> > All kinds of unpredictable political forces are
> > being unleashed. In India, for instance, members of
> > the All India People's Resistance Forum, who were
> > distributing anti-war and anti-US pamphlets in
> > Delhi, have been jailed. Even the printer of the
> > leaflets was arrested.
> > The rightwing government (while it shelters Hindu
> > extremists groups such as the Vishwa Hindu Parishad
> > and the Bajrang Dal) has banned the Islamic Students
> > Movement of India and is trying to revive an anti-
> > terrorist Act which had been withdrawn after the
> > Human Rights Commission reported that it had been
> > more abused than used. Millions of Indian citizens
> > are Muslim. Can anything be gained by alienating
> > them?
> > Every day that the war goes on, raging emotions are
> > being let loose into the world. The international
> > press has little or no independent access to the war
> > zone. In any case, mainstream media, particularly in
> > the US, have more or less rolled over, allowing
> > themselves to be tickled on the stomach with press
> > handouts from military men and government officials.
> > Afghan radio stations have been destroyed by the
> > bombing. The Taliban has always been deeply
> > suspicious of the press. In the propaganda war,
> > there is no accurate estimate of how many people
> > have been killed, or how much destruction has taken
> > place. In the absence of reliable information, wild
> > rumours spread.
> > Put your ear to the ground in this part of the
> > world, and you can hear the thrumming, the deadly
> > drumbeat of burgeoning anger. Please. Please, stop
> > the war now. Enough people have died. The smart
> > missiles are just not smart enough. They're blowing
> > up whole warehouses of suppressed fury.
> > President George Bush recently boasted, "When I take
> > action, I'm not going to fire a $2m missile at a $10
> > empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It's going
> > to be decisive." President Bush should know that
> > there are no targets in Afghanistan that will give
> > his missiles their money's worth.
> > Perhaps, if only to balance his books, he should
> > develop some cheaper missiles to use on cheaper
> > targets and cheaper lives in the poor countries of
> > the world. But then, that may not make good business
> > sense to the coalition1s weapons manufacturers. It
> > wouldn't make any sense at all, for example, to the
> > Carlyle Group - described by the Industry Standard
> > as "the world's largest private equity firm", with
> > $13bn under management.
> > Carlyle invests in the defence sector and makes its
> > money from military conflicts and weapons spending.
> > Carlyle is run by men with impeccable credentials.
> > Former US defence secretary Frank Carlucci is
> > Carlyle's chairman and managing director (he was a
> > college roommate of Donald Rumsfeld's). Carlyle's
> > other partners include former US secretary of state
> > James A Baker III, George Soros and Fred Malek
> > (George Bush Sr's campaign manager). An American
> > paper  the Baltimore Chronicle and Sentinel -
> > says that former president George Bush Sr is
> > reported to be seeking investments for the Carlyle
> > Group from Asian markets.
> > He is reportedly paid not inconsiderable sums of
> > money to make "presentations" to potential
> > government-clients.
> > Ho hum. As the tired saying goes, it's all in the
> > family.
> > Then there's that other branch of traditional family
> > business - oil. Remember, President George Bush (Jr)
> > and Vice-President Dick Cheney both made their
> > fortunes working in the US oil industry.
> > Turkmenistan, which borders the north-west of
> > Afghanistan, holds the world's third largest gas
> > reserves and an estimated six billion barrels of oil
> > reserves. Enough, experts say, to meet American
> > energy needs for the next 30 years (or a developing
> > country's energy requirements for a couple of
> > centuries.) America has always viewed oil as a
> > security consideration, and protected it by any
> > means it deems necessary. Few of us doubt that its
> > military presence in the Gulf has little to do with
> > its concern for human rights and almost entirely to
> > do with its strategic interest in oil.
> > Oil and gas from the Caspian region currently moves
> > northward to European markets. Geographically and
> > politically, Iran and Russia are major impediments
> > to American interests. In 1998, Dick Cheney - then
> > CEO of Halliburton, a major player in the oil
> > industry - said, "I can't think of a time when we've
> > had a region emerge as suddenly to become as
> > strategically significant as the Caspian. It's
> > almost as if the opportunities have arisen
> > overnight." True enough.
> > For some years now, an American oil giant called
> > Unocal has been negotiating with the Taliban for
> > permission to construct an oil pipeline through
> > Afghanistan to Pakistan and out to the Arabian sea.
> > From here, Unocal hopes to access the lucrative
> > "emerging markets" in south and south-east Asia. In
> > December 1997, a delegation of Taliban mullahs
> > travelled to America and even met US state
> > department officials and Unocal executives in
> > Houston. At that time the Taliban's taste for public
> > executions and its treatment of Afghan women were
> > not made out to be the crimes against humanity that
> > they are now.
> > Over the next six months, pressure from hundreds of
> > outraged American feminist groups was brought to
> > bear on the Clinton administration.
> > Fortunately, they managed to scuttle the deal. And
> > now comes the US oil industry's big chance.
> > In America, the arms industry, the oil industry, the
> > major media networks, and, indeed, US foreign
> > policy, are all controlled by the same business
> > combines. Therefore, it would be foolish to expect
> > this talk of guns and oil and defence deals to get
> > any real play in the media. In any case, to a
> > distraught, confused people whose pride has just
> > been wounded, whose loved ones have been tragically
> > killed, whose anger is fresh and sharp, the
> > inanities about the "clash of civilisations" and the
> > "good v evil" discourse home in unerringly. They are
> > cynically doled out by government spokesmen like a
> > daily dose of vitamins or anti-depressants. Regular
> > medication ensures that mainland America continues
> > to remain the enigma it has always been - a
> > curiously insular people, administered by a
> > pathologically meddlesome, promiscuous government.
> > And what of the rest of us, the numb recipients of
> > this onslaught of what we know to be preposterous
> > propaganda? The daily consumers of the lies and
> > brutality smeared in peanut butter and strawberry
> > jam being air-dropped into our minds just like those
> > yellow food packets. Shall we look away and eat
> > because we're hungry, or shall we stare unblinking
> > at the grim theatre unfolding in Afghanistan until
> > we retch collectively and say, in one voice, that we
> > have had enough?
> > As the first year of the new millennium rushes to a
> > close, one wonders - have we forfeited our right to
> > dream? Will we ever be able to re-imagine beauty?
> > Will it be possible ever again to watch the slow,
> > amazed blink of a newborn gecko in the sun, or
> > whisper back to the marmot who has just whispered in
> > your ear - without thinking of the World Trade
> > Centre and Afghanistan?
> >
> >
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VKaminski@aol.com on 04/30/2000 11:08:30 AM
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Subject: Le Monde

La m,moire ambigu% du communisme

  Mis . jour le samedi 29 avril 2000

L'_VOCATION de la terreur exerc,e par les r,gimes communistes, qu'on pouvait
supposer - et esp,rer - voir passer de la triste r,alit, au d,bat historien,
tend . se transformer chez certains de ses d,nonciateurs les plus virulents
en une v,ritable croisade pour la m,moire. Une croisade qui croit trouver sur
sa route l'obstacle d'une autre m,moire ,mergente : celle de la Shoah, avec
laquelle elle s'obstine . entrer dans une p,nible r concurrence _.

Nul doute que le chapitre introductif du Livre noir du communisme, paru en
France . l'automne 1997 et publi,, depuis, dans seize pays - texte dans
lequel l'historien St,phane Courtois plaide pour un r Nuremberg du communisme
_ -, a contribu, . lib,rer ce genre d'offensive. Contre qui ? Contre l' r
int,grisme de la m,moire _ et le r monopole du crime contre l'humanit, _ que
s'arrogeraient des r individus _ dans la r communaut, juive _, ce qui
expliquerait le d,s,quilibre entre la m,moire du nazisme et celle du
communisme. Tels sont les termes utilis,s par St,phane Courtois dans un
entretien accord, . Politique internationale et que critique Marc Lazar,
professeur . l'Institut d',tudes politiques de Paris, dans la derniSre
livraison de la revue Communisme (L'Age d'homme, no 59-60).

Ce combat, qui se couvre de l'autorit, scientifique et s'autorise de
l'empathie que provoque le bilan meurtrier des pays communistes, est de
nature plut"t id,ologique. Plus qu'en France, un v,ritable r effet-Livre noir
_ se fait sentir dans les pays naguSre soumis . la sphSre d'influence
sovi,tique, o- de tels discours conduisent . de multiples d,rives ; entre
autres au retour inqui,tant d'un mythe refoul,, celui du r jud,o-bolchevisme
_. Dans cette logique, les victimes de la Shoah se seraient, aprSs 1945,
m,tamorphos,es en bourreaux staliniens. D'o- l'id,e que ces derniers auraient
aujourd'hui r int,rt _ . imposer le silence sur leurs r m,faits _.??Franchissant un pas de plus et mettant en ,vidence la proportion d'agents?d'origine juive dans l'administration sovi,tique, et notamment dans le NKVD,?certains flirtent avec une application ,tendue de la th,orie du r noyau?rationnel _ chSre . l'historien allemand Ernst Nolte.?????Sans nier la Shoah, cette th,orie consiste . avancer l'hypothSse que le?g,nocide juif aurait constitu, une r violence r,active _ face . un?bolchevisme lui-mme quelque peu r enjuiv, _. Que la proportion de juifs
europ,ens engag,s activement dans le communisme ait ,t, infime, voire
marginale, puisque, politiquement, la majorit, des juifs se sont r,partis au
cours du XXe siScle entre sionisme, social-d,mocratie, orthodoxie ou
assimilation, que le juda<sme sovi,tique et est-europ,en ait lui-mme?consid,rablement souffert de la terreur stalinienne, ne font rien . l'affaire?: insidieusement . l'Est, la vieille th,matique du r jud,o-bolchevisme _?paraOt faire son chemin, y compris jusque dans les cerveaux les plus savants.??Dans des pays fragilis,s par l'exp,rience du communisme r,el, par exemple en?Roumanie, cette configuration doit tre replac,e dans le cadre d'une
entreprise de refondation identitaire qui ,prouve le besoin de se nourrir
d'une confrontation permanente avec la m,moire juive. Des r lobbies _
suppos,s y sont couramment accus,s de tenter - ,ventuellement sur la base
d'une conspiration - de jeter un voile d'oubli ou d'ignorance sur des crimes
dont les juifs sont parfois d,sign,s comme les auteurs. Pour des soci,t,s
hant,es par la reconqute d'une fiert, nationale mise . mal par des d,cennies?de dictature et d'humiliation, pareil ,chafaudage th,orique, pour branlant?qu'il soit, a l'avantage de repr,senter une merveilleuse fabrique d'innocence.??Pourtant, le totalitarisme communiste a, . c"t, de la pr,sence des troupes du?pacte de Varsovie et comme toutes les dictatures contemporaines,?n,cessairement repos, aussi sur un tissu de compromission quotidienne avec le?pouvoir. Affronter cette douloureuse r,alit,, plus de dix ans aprSs la chute?du mur, demeure difficile. Le dissident tchSque Vaclav Havel fut peut-tre
l'un des premiers . mettre en garde ses concitoyens contre les tentations
victimaires et l'ext,riorisation syst,matique de la cause du mal. Ne leur
disait-il pas, dSs janvier 1990 : r Nous qui nous sommes tous habitu,s au
systSme (...), nous sommes tous en mme temps, chacun dans une mesure?diff,rente, ses cofondateurs. (...) Il ne serait pas raisonnable de?consid,rer le triste h,ritage des derniSres quarante ann,es comme quelque?chose d',tranger qui nous a ,t, l,gu, par un parent lointain. _??Les d,rives qui s'autorisent d'une certaine lecture du Livre noir indisposent?une partie de ses auteurs dont quelques-uns avaient, dSs la parution de?l'ouvrage, tenu . prendre leur distance avec le texte introductif.??  TENDANCE ? LA VICTIMISATION??C'est aujourd'hui un proche de St,phane Courtois, Marc Lazar, qui lui?reproche de juger, sans v,ritablement argumenter, que r ce qui s'est pass, .?Auschwitz se retrouve grosso modo en URSS et dans d'autres pays communistes?_. Marc Lazar replace la d,marche de St,phane Courtois dans le cadre d'une?interpr,tation de la m,moire en termes de manipulation, qui pr,tend la?r,duire . une r conception strat,gique _, ourdie par des r acteurs collectifs?parfaitement organis,s et poursuivant des objectifs clairs et coh,rents _.?Cette tendance semble s,duire un nombre croissant d'historiens, bien qu'elle?soit fond,e sur une vision assez fruste des ph,nomSnes de m,moire, processus?sociaux aux contours toujours complexes dont la dynamique demeure?difficilement maOtrisable.??Quoi qu'il en soit, Communisme semble ici tomber dans les piSges de?l'histoire-m,moire en publiant un texte d'hommage au grand historien roumain?Georghe Bratianu. Si Georghe Bratianu fut bien victime de la version roumaine?du stalinisme en 1953, on ne saurait minimiser non plus, comme le fait?l'auteur, l'universitaire britannique John Rogister, qu'il fut aussi l'un des?artisans du rapprochement de son pays avec l'Allemagne nazie et un?nationaliste belliqueux. Tous les morts du communisme ont certes droit au?respect. Mais ce statut de victime ne rend pas forc,ment l'ensemble de leur?action digne d'un ,loge inconditionnel.??Jean-Louis Margolin, qui a sign, dans Le Livre noir les contributions sur le?communisme asiatique, r,sume ironiquement ce qui provoque la r,ticence d'une?partie des auteurs : r Dans les pays d'Europe orientale, ,crit-il, le?communisme, contraire aux nobles et saines traditions nationales, serait?toujours surimpos, de l'ext,rieur. Pour ceux qui furent soumis . la puissance?russe, le coupable est ais, . trouver. Pour les Russes, la cause est moins?entendue, mais qu'. cela ne tienne : suivant le go-t du jour on accusera les?Allemands, les juifs ou... Lucifer. _ En Europe de l'Est, cette tendance . la?victimisation est politiquement dangereuse. L'exemple serbe montre . quel?point elle peut aboutir . la l,gitimation de la violence nationaliste. Raison?de plus pour ne pas l'encourager depuis Paris.??  Nicolas Weill????Le Monde dat, du dimanche 30 avril 2000?????Zimbabwe : la fuite en avant de Robert Mugabe, par Fr,d,ric Fritscher???  Mis . jour le jeudi 27 avril 2000???H,ros incontest, de la guerre d'ind,pendance du Zimbabwe, chantre reconnu de?la lutte antiapartheid et, avec l'ancien pr,sident zambien Kenneth Kaunda,?animateur virulent de l'organisation des pays de la ligne de front contre le?r,gime de Pretoria, Robert Mugabe n'est plus aujourd'hui qu'un personnage?anachronique. Desmond Tutu, l'ancien archevque anglican du Cap, Prix Nobel
de la paix en 1984, le d,crit comme r la caricature de ce que le monde pense
que les dirigeants africains noirs sont _.

Les propos du pr,lat reflStent la d,ception des dirigeants sud-africains. Ils
r,sument aussi l'opinion publique du Zimbabwe, o- le pr,sident Mugabe vient
d'essuyer deux camouflets successifs. La population consult,e par r,f,rendum,
le 12 et le 13 f,vrier, sur de substantielles modifications de la
Constitution, qui avaient pour objectif essentiel de consolider les pouvoirs
pr,sidentiels, a r,pondu r non _ - . 54,6 % - aux questions qui lui ,taient
pos,es. Supportant difficilement la d,rive autocratique du r,gime, les
Zimbabw,ens ont, en fait, dit r non _ . Robert Mugabe, plut"t qu'. une
nouvelle Constitution dont le texte avait ,t, assez peu comment, publiquement.

La publication, un mois plus tard, le 10 mars, des r,sultats d'un sondage
r,alis, par Probe Market Research, un institut reconnu, li, . Gallup
International, pour le compte de la fondation sud-africaine Helen Suzman pour
la promotion de la d,mocratie, confirme le ras-le-bol des Zimbabw,ens, dont
65 % souhaitent le retrait de la vie publique du pr,sident, qui vient de
fter ses soixante-seize ans. Ils espSrent aussi, . 63 %, un changement de?gouvernement et cela jusque dans les zones rurales, o- l'Union nationale?africaine du Zimbabwe-Front patriotique (Zanu-PF), le parti au pouvoir, est?solidement implant,e.??DISCOURS POPULISTE??Le sondage indique clairement que les Zimbabw,ens sont avant tout pr,occup,s?par le ch"mage, la flamb,e des prix, les vicissitudes de leur quotidien, et?qu'ils restent insensibles, . 80 %, aux arguments du chef de l'Etat accusant?les Blancs rest,s au pays aprSs l'ind,pendance d'tre responsables des
difficult,s ,conomiques actuelles.

Seule une petite minorit, des sond,s (9 %) estime que la r,forme agraire,
pr,sent,e comme primordiale par le gouvernement, est un dossier essentiel.
L'opinion publique ne bl?me pas les fermiers blancs pour le blocage de la
r,forme, mais le gouvernement lui-mme (74 %). Etrange paradoxe, puisque,?dans le mme temps, le mouvement d'occupation des propri,t,s appartenant .
des fermiers blancs par les anciens combattants de la guerre d'ind,pendance,
les r v,t,rans _, lanc, le 28 f,vrier . l'instigation du pr,sident Mugabe,
continue de s',tendre.

Les r v,t,rans _, soutenus par la Zanu, affirment qu'ils ne font que
reprendre les terres vol,es . leurs anctres par les Blancs au siScle?dernier, dans cette ancienne colonie britannique. L'opposition politique?accuse le pr,sident Mugabe d'avoir organis, l'occupation des terres pour r?punir _ les Blancs, qu'il rend responsables du rejet de la nouvelle?Constitution lors du dernier r,f,rendum.??Plusieurs personnes ont trouv, la mort au cours des derniSres semaines. Avec?la complicit, passive de la police zimbabw,enne, les r v,t,rans _ ont?assassin, deux fermiers blancs ainsi que deux militants noirs du Mouvement?pour le changement (MDC), principale formation de l'opposition, br-l,s vifs?dans l'incendie de leur voiture, et un policier en civil. Ils ont ,galement?viol, deux femmes blanches, parentes d'un responsable influent du Syndicat?des fermiers commerciaux (CFU).??Robert Mugabe continue n,anmoins de soutenir fermement les anciens?combattants. La Haute Cour de justice a, par deux fois, d,clar, les?occupations des fermes ill,gales et ordonn, leur ,vacuation. Par deux fois,?le pr,sident a refus, de faire appliquer les d,cisions de justice,?interdisant mme aux forces de police d'intervenir. Dans sa fuite en avant,
M. Mugabe a choisi encore une fois de prendre la minorit, blanche comme bouc
,missaire. Le proc,d, n'est pas nouveau. Il constitue depuis vingt ans un des
thSmes r,currents de son discours populiste. Il a trait, les fermiers blancs
d' r ennemis du Zimbabwe _ le jour mme o- l'un d'entre eux ,tait l?chement?assassin,. L'an dernier, . l'occasion de son soixante-quinziSme anniversaire,?il avait estim, que les Blancs zimbabw,ens devaient r demander pardon pour?leurs p,ch,s pass,s _. r Il ne faut pas leur laisser le sentiment, parce?qu'ils contr"lent l',conomie, qu'ils sont nos maOtres. Le combat est clair,?c'est Noirs contre Blancs _, avait-il ajout,.??Le problSme foncier est crucial au Zimbabwe, o- Robert Mugabe promet aux r?v,t,rans _ une redistribution ,quitable des terres depuis l'accession?officielle du pays . l'ind,pendance, le 18 avril 1980. Les accords de?Lancaster House, sign,s . Londres le 21 d,cembre 1979, portaient sur les?conditions d'un cessez-le-feu et sur les modalit,s d'accession au pouvoir de?la majorit, noire. Ils ont mis un terme . sept ans d'une guerre sanglante?entre le r,gime blanc de Ian Smith - qui avait d,clar, unilat,ralement?l'ind,pendance de la Rhod,sie en 1965, pour pr,venir l'avSnement d'un pouvoir?noir - et les nationalistes conduits par Robert Mugabe et Joshua Nkomo,?codirigeants du Front patriotique. Mais ces accords pr,voyaient ,galement une?aide internationale . la r,forme agraire pouvant atteindre 2 milliards de?dollars. De l'aveu mme de Robin Cook, le ministre britannique des affaires
,trangSres, la Grande-Bretagne - ancienne puissance coloniale - n'y a
contribu, qu'. hauteur de 70 millions de dollars.

M. Mugabe avait fait adopter, le 19 mars 1992, par le Parlement, une loi
permettant d'exproprier les riches fermiers blancs pour installer sur leurs
vastes propri,t,s un grand nombre de petits paysans noirs. Poursuivant son
dessein, il avait fait publier, le 28 novembre 1997, la liste officielle des
1 500 propri,t,s que le gouvernement souhaitait r nationaliser _ pour les
redistribuer. L'expropriation portait sur quelque 5 millions d'hectares, la
moiti, des terres exploit,es par des fermiers blancs, et ne devait donner
lieu . aucune indemnisation.

Cependant, au cours des vingt derniSres ann,es, les quelques propri,t,s
rachet,es ou r,quisitionn,es par les autorit,s ont ,t, redistribu,es non pas
. de petits paysans noirs comme elles auraient d- l'tre, mais . des membres?de la nomenklatura, dirigeants de la Zanu ou proches de la famille Mugabe.??N_POTISME ET CORRUPTION??Le n,potisme et la corruption sont deux des principaux reproches adress,s par?l'opposition et la population au r,gime de M. Mugabe, qui subit, depuis?d,cembre 1997, une pression populaire croissante. Le r,gime fait le choix de?l'autoritarisme et la d,rive personnelle du pouvoir devient ,vidente lorsque,?en ao-t 1998, Robert Mugabe d,cide, sans consulter ni le Parlement ni le?gouvernement, d'envoyer un corps exp,ditionnaire en R,publique d,mocratique?du Congo (RDC, ex-Za<re) pour voler au secours de Laurent-D,sir, Kabila,?menac, par une r,bellion interne et ses voisins ougandais et rwandais. Les?Zimbabw,ens s'interrogent sur la n,cessit, d'engager ces 11 000 soldats dans?un conflit lointain, qui co-te quelque 30 millions de dollars chaque mois .?un pays en plein marasme ,conomique.??C'est dans ce contexte peu favorable, somme toute, que le pr,sident Mugabe?entend conduire la Zanu aux ,lections l,gislatives pr,vues en mai. Et pour la?premiSre fois depuis l'ind,pendance, la Zanu - qu'il voulait transformer en?parti unique en 1990, alors que le multipartisme bourgeonnait partout sur le?continent - risque fort d'tre bouscul,e par l'union possible de l'opposition
autour du MDC, fond, par l'ancien dirigeant syndicaliste Morgan Tsvangirai.

Fr,d,ric Fritscher

Le Monde dat, du vendredi 28 avril 2000

Comment d,couper Microsoft ?, par Fran?ois L,vque???  Mis . jour le vendredi 28 avril 2000???Le d,mantSlement de Microsoft est envisag, pour mettre fin aux pratiques?anticoncurrentielles de l'entreprise de Redmond. Dans quel sens d,couper la?soci,t, et en combien de morceaux ? Il y a plusieurs solutions possibles mais?il est difficile d'en choisir une.??Une premiSre option consiste . d,couper Microsoft selon un trait horizontal?qui s,parerait les activit,s d,di,es aux logiciels d'application de celles du?systSme d'exploitation. Ce d,membrement en deux morceaux r,sout la question?des produits li,s, comme le rattachement abusif d'Internet Explorer .?Windows, mais n'entame pas le monopole de Microsoft sur le march, des?systSmes d'exploitation pour ordinateur personnel.??DeuxiSme solution : proc,der . un d,coupage vertical qui diviserait?l'entreprise de Bill Gates en mini-Microsofts identiques. Le nombre de ces?Baby Bills (nomm,es ainsi par la presse am,ricaine par analogie avec les Baby?Bells cr,,es lors du d,mantSlement d'ATT) doit tre au moins de trois pour
instaurer la concurrence.

Un troisiSme d,membrement envisageable est de combiner divisions horizontale
et verticale. Il donnerait naissance . quatre entreprises : trois Baby
Windows, et une Baby Applications, qui conserveraient la libert, d',tendre
leurs activit,s vers l'amont ou vers l'aval.

Chacune de ces solutions entraOne des cons,quences diff,rentes pour le
consommateur et r,clame des mesures d'accompagnement plus ou moins co-teuses
pour l'administration. Le d,membrement en deux morceaux aboutit . la perte
des ,conomies li,es . l'int,gration verticale (c'est l'id,e que la
connaissance complSte du systSme d'exploitation permet de d,velopper .
moindre co-t des logiciels d'application). Ces ,conomies sont toutefois assez
faibles selon les experts.

Le co-t du d,mantSlement horizontal serait donc modeste pour les
consommateurs. Ce qui n'est pas le cas du d,membrement vertical. Les Baby
Bills vont mener des strat,gies de diff,renciation qui vont conduire . une
fragmentation des standards. Les nouvelles versions de Windows ne seront plus
compatibles.

La troisiSme solution cumule les deux inconv,nients. Sur le plan des
b,n,fices, le classement s'inverse. En effet, le b,n,fice attendu des mesures
de d,mantSlement est celui qu'apporte la concurrence (baisse des prix et
acc,l,ration de l'innovation). Or la concurrence est d'autant plus forte que
le nombre d'entreprises est grand et qu'aucun monopole ne subsiste sur les
march,s.

Le d,mantSlement vertical et horizontal en quatre morceaux laisse esp,rer un
plus grand b,n,fice que le d,mantSlement vertical en trois morceaux, qui
lui-mme est plus avantageux pour le consommateur que le d,mantSlement?horizontal en deux morceaux. Du c"t, des co-ts administratifs, le?d,membrement horizontal et vertical est ,galement la solution la plus?avantageuse. La seule t?che des pouvoirs publics est d'empcher les alliances
et les fusions. Les d,penses de contr"le sont trSs ,lev,es en revanche dans
le cas du d,mantSlement horizontal. Des mesures de r,glementation, comme la
tarification administr,e, doivent n,cessairement compl,ter le dispositif
puisque le monopole de Windows est maintenu intact. Le cas du d,mantSlement
vertical occupe une position interm,diaire. Il appelle simplement des mesures
r,glementaires transitoires, comme l'interdiction faite au personnel r,parti
au d,part dans les trois soci,t,s de changer imm,diatement de Baby Bill (de
rejoindre par exemple celle qui resterait dirig,e par Bill Gates).

L'objectif poursuivi par les autorit,s de la concurrence est de servir
l'int,rt du consommateur. La solution qui devrait tre choisie par la
division antitrust am,ricaine est donc celle qui maximise l',cart entre le
b,n,fice apport, par une plus grande concurrence et le co-t induit par la
perte en ,conomies d'int,gration verticale et de compatibilit,. La
comparaison entre le d,mantSlement horizontal et le d,mantSlement combin, est
ici difficile. Dans le premier cas, il faut soustraire un faible co-t d'un
faible b,n,fice tandis que dans le second, il faut retirer un co-t ,lev, d'un
b,n,fice ,lev,.

On peut en revanche ,liminer facilement la solution du d,mantSlement
vertical. En effet, en compl,tant le d,coupage vertical par un d,coupage
horizontal, l'intensit, de la concurrence augmente fortement et donc le
b,n,fice pour le consommateur tandis que ce dernier subit un faible surco-t.
Restent donc deux solutions possibles que seules des ,valuations chiffr,es
permettraient de d,partager. Les autorit,s de la concurrence am,ricaines
s'apprtent . demander un d,mantSlement horizontal, ce qui reflSte sans doute?que la solution combin,e est moins favorable au consommateur.??Si l'objectif poursuivi est l'int,rt g,n,ral - un objectif que l'on peut
prter aux juges - le choix de d,mantSlement doit aussi tenir compte des?co-ts des mesures de contr"le pour l'administration. La solution . retenir?n'est alors plus forc,ment la mme puisqu'il s'agit maintenant de maximiser
le gain pour le consommateur net du co-t administratif. Si les ,conomies pour
l'administration que permet de r,aliser le d,mantSlement horizontal et
vertical l'emportent sur la r,duction du gain pour le consommateur (due en
particulier . la fragmentation des standards), la cr,ation de trois Baby
Windows et d'un Baby Applications est une meilleure solution. Rien ne dit
donc que le juge Thomas Penfield Jackson retiendra l'option de d,mantSlement
en deux morceaux propos,e aujourd'hui par les plaignants.

Fran?ois L,vque  est professeur d',conomie . l'Ecole nationale sup,rieure?des mines de Paris. par Fran?ois L,vque

Le Monde dat, du samedi 29 avril 2000


Thanks.  I have a contact.  When can you be in Sao Paolo next?

Best,
Jeff


Here is the latest version of the management presentation.  We are contining
to update and fill in the holes.  Please give myself or Don a call if you
have any questions.  Thanks
Ben


Sara,

Just for the record, I think we tax folks had a couple comments to your
initial draft of the Grizzly-Timberwolf swap confirmation, but all of these
issues became moot as a result of the changes made in today's Raptor II
meeting.   We'll look forward to receiving your revised draft of the swap.
Thanks.

 AnnMarie

---------------------- Forwarded by Mary Kimball/NA/Enron on 09/27/2000 09:45
AM ---------------------------
From: Sara Shackleton@ECT on 09/26/2000 05:44 PM
To: Scott Sefton/HOU/ECT@ECT, Ryan Siurek/Corp/Enron@ENRON, Gordon
McKillop/NA/Enron@ENRON, Bob Butts/GPGFIN/Enron@ENRON, Gregory
Adams/Corp/Enron@ENRON, Mary Kimball/NA/Enron@Enron, Frank
Stabler/ENRON_DEVELOPMENT@ENRON_DEVELOPMENT, Randy Young/NA/Enron@Enron
cc:

Subject: swap on Ponderosa shares of Enron International Brazil 2000 Ltd.

Attached is a first draft of the swap for the Raptor 2 structure.  Please
consider the following questions and I will amend the confirmation
accordingly:

1.  I have bracketed the concept of multiple notices for purposes of multiple
partial terminations and therefore multiple Valuation Dates.  Before we
eliminate this concept, I just want to make certain that everyone is in
agreement as to how this swap will terminate.  [Do we want partial
terminations based upon partial asset sales?]

2.  Assuming that termination occurs upon sale of 100% of the assets, I need
to be sure that the word "sale" is sufficient.  Should we use "financial
close" or some other term of art?  I have concerns that a sale may be
contingent or subject to some waiting period.


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---------------------- Forwarded by Darron C Giron/HOU/ECT on 11/14/2000
08:22 AM ---------------------------

"Sean Mayers" <smmayers@earthlink.net> on 11/14/2000 06:54:56 AM
To: "Smetana, Scott" <scottsmetana@yahoo.com>, "Richter, Mike"
<mrichter@us.ibm.com>, "O'Connor, Kelly" <kdocon@aol.com>, "Moon, Chad"
<moonlaunch@aol.com>, "Hiatt, Drew" <jhiatt@kumc.edu>, "Giron, Darron"
<dgiron@enron.com>, "Daughtery, Brian" <birddogbsd@aol.com>
cc:
Subject: Fw: different Florida election Ballot

----- Original Message -----
From: <Kim.Mayers@mail.sprint.com>
To: <crichter@amfm.com>; <darron.c.giron@enron.com>;
<jcmayers@earthlink.net>; <smmayers@earthlink.net>
Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 2:54 PM
Subject: FW: different Florida election Ballot

> I thought this was a little humorous!
>
> Kim Mayers
> Product Manager
> Sprint Broadband Wireless Group
> Phone: (913) 315-9132
> PCS: (913) 269-8197
> Fax: (913) 315-0760
> kim.mayers@mail.sprint.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Trainer, Brian
> Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 3:47 PM
> To: berve; Brady, James S.; Broom, Gerald; Broom, Janis; Byrd, Brenda
> W.; Byrd, Brian J.; Franz, Kevin J.; Gampper, James J. PCS.; Garris,
> Kathy P.; Garris, Lee J.; Gobea, Paul A.; Jamaleddin, Joe N.; Joyce,
> Sean R.; Kierl, Maurine M.; Mayers, Kim L.; McAbee, Karen N.; Miller,
> David G. PCS.; Nelson, Gregory G.; pentrain; Peterson, Jim H.; Peterson,
> Keri; stevenkari; Trainer, Christa L.; tres
> Subject: FW: different Florida election Ballot
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Attached are the weekly cost reports for the week ending 4/7/00.  If you have
any questions please call.  Thanks Amy 3-7805


looks like she is going to play
---------------------- Forwarded by Matthew Lenhart/HOU/ECT on 10/16/2000
04:57 PM ---------------------------

Roy_Dealy@veritasdgc.com on 10/16/2000 03:48:54 PM
To: Kendra.Dromgoole@enron.com
cc: lisa.gillette@enron.com, matthew.lenhart@enron.com

Subject: Re: Tomorrow's Games

I'm sure Matt or Lisa can provide guidance for you.  If not, here is a
map....

(See attached file: Sportsplex Map.gif)(See attached file: Sportsplex
Map-overview.gif)

See you out there,
Roy

Veritas will have a new office location effective October 16th:
10300 Town Park, Houston, TX 77072
Tel - 832-351-8515
Fax - 832-351-8744

                    Kendra.Dromgoole
                    @enron.com              To:     Roy Dealy/NASA/VDGC@VES
                                            cc:
                    10/16/2000 04:38        Subject:     Re: Tomorrow's Games
                    PM

I will most likely play if I can find someone I can follow after work.

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Please join us at an all-employee meeting at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 9, in
the Hyatt Regency's Imperial Ballroom. We will review our second quarter
financial and operating highlights and discuss in more detail the strategy
behind Enron Net Works.  The meeting will be streamed live on IP-TV to
employees in Houston, Omaha, Portland, New York, Calgary, London, Stockholm,
Frankfurt and Amsterdam.

As always, we welcome your questions.  You may send them to Mary Clark by
e-mail, fax (713-853-6790) or interoffice mail (EB4704C).  The deadline for
advance questions is Friday, Aug. 4.

We look forward to seeing you there.


-----Original Message-----
From:   Monley, John M
Sent:   Tuesday, October 30, 2001 11:04 AM
To:     Immer, Ingrid
Subject:        Enron III
October 28, 2001
Once-Mighty Enron Strains Under Scrutiny
By ALEX BERENSON and RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr.
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S time running out for Enron (news/quote </redirect/marketwatch/redirect.ctx?MW=http://custom.marketwatch.com/custom/nyt-com/html-companyprofile.asp&symb=ENE >)?
At the beginning of this year, the Enron Corporation, the world's dominant energy trader, appeared unstoppable. The company's decade-long effort to persuade lawmakers to deregulate electricity markets had succeeded from California to New York. Its ties to the Bush administration assured that its views would be heard in Washington. Its sales, profits and stock were soaring.
And under the leadership of Jeffrey K. Skilling, its chief executive, Enron's arrogance had grown even more quickly.
The company, based in Houston, dripped contempt for the regulators and consumer groups that stood between it and fully deregulated markets - for electricity, water and everything else. Everyone would win under deregulation, Enron said - especially its shareholders, whose stock would soar as the company profited from creating new markets.
"We are on the side of angels," Mr. Skilling said in March, dismissing those who saw the company as a profiteer in California's energy crisis. "People want to have open, competitive markets. They want fair competition. It's the American way."
But less than a year later, everybody seems to have lost, especially Enron's investors. Enron's stock is plunging, and questions about its finances are mounting.
Some experts in the energy industry worry that if the crisis at the company worsens, trading in natural gas and electricity could be seriously disrupted and energy prices could grow more volatile. In a worst-case outlook, Enron could become the 2001 version of Long-Term Capital Management, the huge hedge fund whose collapse roiled financial markets during the fall of 1998. Enron's shares have fallen more than 80 percent this year, erasing $50 billion in shareholder value.
Enron closed on Friday at $15.40, down 95 cents, after hitting a 52-week low of $15.04 earlier in the day.
The future of electricity deregulation is in doubt, thanks to blackouts and soaring power prices in California earlier this year - a crisis that ended only when that state contradicted deregulation's basic tenets by intervening deeply in the power market. Enron's efforts to become a profit-making water supplier and to create a new market in broadband communications capacity have been expensive failures. In August, Mr. Skilling quit, forcing Kenneth L. Lay, his predecessor as chief executive and still Enron's chairman, to resume day-to-day control of the company.
The company declined to make senior executives, including Mr. Lay, available for comment, and asked that questions be submitted in writing. Mr. Skilling could not be reached.
Enron's problems boiled over earlier this month, when it disclosed that its shareholders' equity, a measure of the company's value, dropped by $1.2 billion in the last quarter because of a deal disclosed only very hazily in Enron's regular financial statements. The Securities and Exchange Commission is looking into the company's financial reporting, and some investors question whether Enron has overstated profits at its primary business of trading electricity and natural gas.
THE slump in the company's shares accelerated after Enron revealed the fall in its shareholders' equity. On Wednesday, the company forced out its chief financial officer, Andrew S. Fastow, who is at the center of the controversy over Enron's confusing finances. The company, which six months ago seemed to be reaping billions of dollars from California's energy crisis, today faces a potential cash crunch.
The surprise about shareholder equity inflamed investors' smoldering concern about Enron's opaque financial statements. Now, with Wall Street analysts and bond-rating agencies demanding more information about the complex transactions that have fueled the company's profits, Enron has been reduced to issuing news releases assuring investors that it has adequate access to cash.
Enron does not appear to be in immediate danger of running out of cash. On Thursday, the company drew down a $3.3 billion credit line it had previously arranged with a group of banks led by Citigroup (news/quote </redirect/marketwatch/redirect.ctx?MW=http://custom.marketwatch.com/custom/nyt-com/html-companyprofile.asp&symb=C >) and J. P. Morgan Chase, which have each extended at least $400 million. But because of Enron's importance in the natural gas and electricity markets, industry experts say that any problem at the company could disrupt energy trading nationwide.
The supply of natural gas and electricity would probably not be affected even if the company failed, because Enron is mainly a trader, rather than a producer, of energy. But a crisis at the company might increase the volatility of energy prices, which have swung wildly in the last year.
Philip K. Verleger Jr., an energy- markets economist, emphasized that he thought Enron would survive this crisis. But he said it was not clear what would happen if Enron ran out of cash or if traders that use the company's EnronOnline Internet trading marketplace defaulted on their obligations.
"You suddenly have all these positions they have taken on there - are they good? Are the firm's hedges good? What's the situation?" Mr. Verleger said. "It's got everyone scared."
In the short run, Enron's credit rating may be its biggest problem. If the company's rating falls below investment grade, Enron could be forced to issue tens of millions of shares of stock to cover loans that it has guaranteed. But creating new shares would make the shares that already exist less valuable, because those shares would no longer represent full ownership of the company.
A drop in the company's credit rating could also prompt other energy traders and producers to back away from doing business with Enron, hurting the company's sales and profits.
Enron's credit rating stands several notches above the critical point. But its bonds, which are publicly traded, have fallen so low that they are now offering interest rates of almost 10 percent, comparable with many junk bonds. Two of the three major credit-rating agencies, Moody's Investors Service and Fitch Investors Service, have put Enron's bonds on review for possible downgrades.
"The issue that's in the front of everybody's mind right now is credit," said Mark Gurley, senior vice president and general manager for trading at Aquila Inc. (news/quote </redirect/marketwatch/redirect.ctx?MW=http://custom.marketwatch.com/custom/nyt-com/html-companyprofile.asp&symb=ILA >), one of the nation's largest energy traders. Aquila is based in Kansas City, Mo.
For now, Aquila and other major energy traders and producers, including Reliant Energy (news/quote </redirect/marketwatch/redirect.ctx?MW=http://custom.marketwatch.com/custom/nyt-com/html-companyprofile.asp&symb=REI >), the El Paso Corporation (news/quote </redirect/marketwatch/redirect.ctx?MW=http://custom.marketwatch.com/custom/nyt-com/html-companyprofile.asp&symb=EPG >) and Dynegy (news/quote </redirect/marketwatch/redirect.ctx?MW=http://custom.marketwatch.com/custom/nyt-com/html-companyprofile.asp&symb=DYN >), are continuing to do business with Enron. And Mr. Gurley said that Enron's own trading in the electricity and natural gas markets did not suggest the sort of frenzied selling reminiscent of the collapse of Long-Term Capital Management in 1998.
"They haven't done anything trading-wise that gives me any indication they are closing their books down," he said.
Still, some executives at other companies said they were looking more carefully at transactions with Enron, especially long-term contracts. They also said risk-management and credit officers were calling each other regularly to discuss the situation.
Mark Palmer, an Enron spokesman, said on Friday that no energy- trading company had stopped doing business with Enron. He declined to say whether any of the company's trading partners had suspended or altered credit terms. He said the company was continuing to see normal volumes of business.
But the crisis that Enron will face if its credit rating is downgraded is just a symptom of the bigger problem the company must confront. For years, the details of Enron's finances have been a mystery even to the Wall Street analysts whose job it is to follow the company, and to the investors who own its stock and bonds. When Enron's profits were soaring and it was creating lucrative new markets, shareholders did not seem to care about the impenetrability of its financial statements.
Now they do. Yet the company seems incapable of offering straight answers to the questions investors ask.
To others in the industry, the opaqueness of the company's financial statements parallels Enron's efforts to keep its energy-trading business lightly regulated and free of disclosure requirements. Though they do not expect Enron to crumble like Long-Term Capital Management, they say that, like the giant hedge fund, Enron uses a lot of debt, regulatory oversight is limited and outsiders have a difficult time figuring out its finances.
The most pressing concerns are a series of partnerships and trusts Enron created to move some of its assets and debt off its balance sheet. With names like Marlin and Osprey, the partnerships have at least $3.3 billion in bonds outstanding, backed by assets like a stake in Azurix (news/quote </redirect/marketwatch/redirect.ctx?MW=http://custom.marketwatch.com/custom/nyt-com/html-companyprofile.asp&symb=AZX >), Enron's water company subsidiary. Enron has promised that if the partnerships' debts exceed the value of their assets, Enron will issue enough new shares to make up the difference.
DEALS with partnerships formed by Mr. Fastow, who was chief financial officer when they were organized, led to the $1.2 billion write-off in shareholders' equity that Enron announced last week. The company has offered only skimpy details of its transactions with those partnerships.
Enron ended its relationships with those partnerships in the last quarter, after being criticized by shareholders. In the process, it wrote off a promissory note that it had carried on its books, reducing its shareholders' equity by $1.2 billion. But, because of complex accounting rules, the transaction was not apparent in Enron's quarterly earnings report.
The transaction disturbs investors because it suggests that Enron may have found a way to hide losses, throwing the accuracy of its financial statements into question. When Enron released third-quarter earnings on Oct. 16, it reported a loss from $1 billion in write-offs on failed investments. The earnings statement did not mention the additional $1.2 billion equity write-down. But the company said its core business had been solidly profitable, and its shares rose.
In a conference call with analysts after the announcement, Mr. Lay, Enron's chairman, also disclosed the reduction in shareholder equity. The reference was a brief one, however, and some listeners did not catch it. Those analysts were angered when they found out the next day what Enron had done, and many were confused by the accounting procedure. Enron's stock began to slide, and investors clamored for more information about the write-off. But so far, the company's efforts to clear up the situation have further unnerved investors.
Mr. Lay has met with investors during the last two weeks to try to explain the deals, but some on Wall Street say they have come away with doubts about Mr. Lay's grasp of the situation. They say that the two people at Enron who appear to have been most knowledgeable about the deals - Mr. Skilling and Mr. Fastow - have both left the company.
In an interview in late August, Mr. Lay said he did not know some details about the deals involving Mr. Fastow. In response to one question about them, he said, "You're getting way over my head."
Mr. Palmer of Enron disputed any suggestion that Mr. Lay did not have a grasp of the investments at issue, saying Mr. Lay was handicapped in talking about them because of the S.E.C. investigation. "There is not a whole lot we can say, or should say, about them," Mr. Palmer said. He also said the company expected to generate about $3 billion in cash through asset sales by the end of next year.
In a conference call on Tuesday, analysts pressed Mr. Lay and other top Enron executives to reveal more information about the LJM write- down and its other partnerships. Instead, they offered only vague explanations of the deal, leaving Wall Street worried that more write-offs might be coming.
David Fleischer, a Goldman, Sachs analyst and a longtime supporter of the company, was among those who came away concerned. "If Enron is unable to clarify its off- balance-sheet transactions and restore confidence in the very near term by assuring investors that no more surprises are forthcoming that would affect the balance sheet or liquidity position, then the company will likely lose access to the capital markets," he wrote in a research note after the call.
To try to reassure investors, Enron said late Thursday that EnronOnline, its Internet-based trading exchange, executed more than 8,400 trades that day, a higher-than-normal volume.
"We know we have our work cut out for us if we are to rebuild our credibility with the investment community - and we're working on that," Mr. Lay said in a statement. "But in the meantime, the best evidence of our strength is the willingness of customers to bring their business to Enron."
But those reassurances apparently are no longer enough for Wall Street. Enron's stock tumbled almost 6 percent Friday, to its lowest levels in six years.
Now analysts are scrambling to figure out the extent of Enron's off- balance-sheet debt and to assess the risk that the company will have to issue new shares to make good on its partnership guarantees.
Carol Coale, an analyst at Prudential Securities in Houston, calculates that Enron may have close to $9 billion in off-balance-sheet debt. She said that Enron had for two years been trying to sell about $6 billion in foreign assets - including properties in Latin America and a power plant in India embroiled in a dispute with the state government - and she worries about those prospects for sale in light of Enron's problems and the souring economy.
"As Enron is forced to sell assets to keep the ratings agencies off their backs, they may have to write those assets down," Ms. Coale said. On Wednesday, she downgraded her rating on Enron to "sell" from "neutral."
"The bottom line is, it's really difficult to recommend an investment when management does not disclose the facts," Ms. Coale said.
Short-sellers, who attacked Enron's accounting even before the company disclosed the write-off, say the company's problems may run even deeper than analysts fear. Enron may have used the partnerships not just to finance money-losing investments but to hide losses in its core trading business, they say.
"The company still isn't disclosing enough to know whether the core business, the trading business, is profitable," said Mark Roberts, director of research at Off Wall Street, which recommended shorting Enron's stock on May 7, when it stood at $59.43. "The issue remains: why are they doing these transactions? Our theory has been that the core operations aren't that profitable."
James Chanos, a leading short- seller who has bet that Enron's stock will fall, said, "Is Enron booking gains when it has real profits, but hiding the losses when deals go against it?" Mr. Palmer of Enron said the company stood by its reported energy-trading profits.
Even traders at other energy companies say they do not have a clear picture of Enron's positions. Enron maintains that it is in no danger of being wiped out by a sharp move in electricity or gas prices because it keeps its trading book balanced - meaning the energy it has agreed to sell is offset, in roughly equivalent amounts, by energy it has agreed to buy.
"With these guys, they tell us - and all you've got is their word - that they're hedged," said Mr. Verleger, the economist.
IN fact, Enron has lobbied forcefully over the years to limit regulation and disclosure of its trading operations. Last year, the company successfully lobbied Congress to effectively ensure that its Internet- trading platform would be exempted from regulation by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
Enron and other power traders do file limited information in reports to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the agency that oversees wholesale electricity and natural gas markets. But the commission does not keep track of specific transactions and prices.
Large-scale energy trading has existed for only about a half-dozen years. Enron pioneered the business, and now dominates it, accounting for about one-quarter of all trading in the United States.
Before Congress and federal regulators opened up the market for wholesale electricity, a process that began in earnest a decade ago, the power business was a simpler affair. Utilities were given areas of monopoly service, and their rates - and ability to deliver enough electricity - were overseen by state regulators. But with the move to deregulate the business, independent and unregulated generators and traders have flourished, providing an ever-growing portion of the nation's power.
Beginning in the 1980's, the sale and transportation of natural gas was also deregulated, spurring Enron, which used to be primarily a gas-pipeline company, to move into the trading business.
The company's shift to trading gas and electricity accelerated in the mid-1990's, with the ascension of Mr. Skilling, who became chief executive in February, just six months before his unexpected resignation. Underscoring the change in direction, in securities filings this year Enron described its principal business as "security brokers, dealers and flotation." Before, it had said it was in the business of "wholesale-petroleum and petroleum products."
For most of its ascent, Enron reported outstanding profit figures and Wall Street accepted them with pleasure. A year ago, when it disclosed the first transactions with partnerships led by Mr. Fastow, the company's former chief financial officer, analysts who asked questions were told that the deals were routine and were being disclosed only because of Mr. Fastow's involvement.
Enron does not appear to face an immediate cash crunch. But the bank credit lines that it drew on last week to pay off its short-term debt will have to be renegotiated next spring. The controversial partnerships do not have to pay their debts until the following year - unless Enron loses its investment-grade credit rating before that.
ENRON will also need to maintain its large trading positions, which could suffer if participants in those markets grow more nervous about Enron's credit. When Long-Term Capital was stumbling in 1998, some Wall Street rivals sold the securities they thought Long-Term owned, trying to force Long-Term to sell its positions quickly and at a loss. Something similar in energy markets might be possible. If so, Enron might find, as Long-Term did, that positions that should offset each other do not.
Enron's new chief financial officer may yet persuade investors that in fact the company's profits are real, and that its condition is better than the short-sellers believe. As questions are answered, confidence, and the share price, could rebound.
But for now, investors are skittish, and some competitors are eager to take advantage of Enron's plight.


Revised GTC


The ones to Hobby are American, and the others are Continental.  On American,
the one's I sent are the about the only ones.  Continental has many available
flights for about $35 more.

Mat


There have been growing concerns regarding the copying and distribution of
licensed and copyrighted materials among various groups within Enron.  For
example, if you are a subscriber to Petroleum Argus, Intelligence Press,
Energy Intelligence, Opis, or any other information source, it is unlawful to
copy and distribute that information among others if only one
license/subscription is ordered.

Such activity exposes Enron to legal ramifications and reflects poorly on our
reputation as a professional and ethical company.

If you have copyrighted material that you would like distributed, please
contact either Bruce Ferrell at 853-4815, or Julie Pechersky at 853-9225 in
Market Data, to address the issue.

Thank you for your cooperation in this matter.


----- Forwarded by David M Gagliardi/TTG/HouInd on 07/10/01 08:41 AM -----

                    "Gagliardi,
                    Michael"             To:     "'dgagliardi@reliantenergy.com'" <dgagliardi@reliantenergy.com>,
                    <mgagliardi@u        "'tony.a.rogers@fritolay.com'" <tony.a.rogers@fritolay.com>
                    nocal.com>           cc:
                                         Subject:     FW: True Orange E-Mail/Fax #64
                    07/10/01
                    07:29 AM

> -----Original Message-----
> From:         TruOrange@aol.com [SMTP:TruOrange@aol.com]
> Sent:         Monday, July 09, 2001 8:05 PM
> To:           TruOrange@aol.com
> Subject:           True Orange E-Mail/Fax #64
>
> True Orange E-Mail/Fax Service
> Volume 9, E-Mail/Fax #64, Monday, July 9, 2001
> Jerry Scarbrough's True Orange, P. O. Box 26530, Austin, Texas 78755 -
> Phone
> 512-795-8536
>
> Splendora Linebacker Brian Robison Commits to UT on Unofficial Visit
>
>  LB Brian Robison, 6-3, 245, 4.6, of Splendora, committed to Texas Monday

> after taking an unofficial visit to the school with his mother and
meeting
>
> with Longhorn assistant coaches Hardee McCrary and Darryl Drake.
> He called me with the news at about 6:45 p.m. Monday and said his next
> call
> was going to head coach Mack Brown, who is on vacation in North Carolina.

> "They gave me his number and I'm going to call him right now," Robison
> said.
> I'm sure he would have called Brown before he called me, but he said the
> UT
> coaches told him Brown should be available at the number they gave him by
> 7
> p.m.
> He said he met Brown and several other UT coaches and players after
> competing
> in the State Track Meet in May.
> Asked what caused him to pick Texas, he said, "Coach Brown was just
> totally h
> onest with me and answered all my questions without hesitation. The
> players
> at Texas all told me he's a straight shooter."
> Robison, who plays middle linebacker at Splendora, said the Texas coaches

> recruited him as a middle backer. He also had offers from LSU and
Houston,
>
> and said coaches from Arkansas, Penn State, Oklahoma and Texas A&M had
> told
> him they would offer if he would visit their schools.
> He had 116 tackles, 6 sacks, 6 passes broken up, 2 fumble recoveries and
a
>
> pass interception last season. He is No. 17 on my list of the state's top
> 25
> "difference makers."
> He is one of the nation's top prep track stars, with a  200-04 3/4 discus

> throw Friday at an AAU track meet in San Antonio that broke the AAU age
> group
> national record, a 62-7 shot put and a 172-10  javelin throw. He has
> qualified for the national AAU Junior Olympic finals in Virginia in late
> July
> in all three events.
> "I knew I wanted to come to Texas," he said, "and I wanted to get it done
> now
> so I could concentrate on doing well in the Junior Olympics.
> Robison is a fine student, with a 3.9 GPA on a 4.0 scale and a
qualifying
>
> SAT score.
> * * * *
> Robison is the Longhorns' 11th commitment this summer, joining OL Neale
> Tweedie, 6-5, 260, 4.9, of Allen; LB Marcus Myers, 6-3, 220, 4.5, of
> Pflugerville Connally; TE-LB David Thomas, 6-3, 210, 4.6, of Wolfforth
> Frenship;  WR Dustin Miksch, 6-0, 165, 4.4, of Round Rock Westwood;  QB
> Billy
> Don Malone, 6-2 1/2, 185, 4.7, of  Paris North Lamar;  RB/Athlete Clint
> Haney, 5-11, 190, 4.27 of Smithson Valley; OL Brett Valdez, 6-4, 310,
5.1,
> of
>  Brownwood, and DTs Sonny Davis, 6-1, 320, 5.0, of Gulf Coast JC in
> Mississippi, Earl Anderson, 6-4, 270, 4.8, of San Marcos and Lyle
> Sendlein,
> 6-4,  260, 4.8, of Scottsdale Chaparral, the two-time defending Class 4A
> champion in Arizona.
> I won't predict how soon it will happen, but I think the Longhorns are in

> very strong position with fine LB Garnett Smith of Arlington Lamar and
> super
> DT Rodrique Wright of Alief Hastings and I will be very surprised if both

> don't eventually commit to Texas.
> TOMMIE HARRIS NOTE: Don't get too excited about the quotes by super DT
> Tommie
> Harris of Killeen  Ellison stating that he already is disenchanted with
> Oklahoma and might try to get out of his letter of intent with the
> Sooners.
> The No. 1 problem is that it is almost impossible to get out of a letter
> of
> intent unless an athlete can prove the school misrepresented something
> major.
> The No. 2 problem is that transfering within the Big 12 is a no-no,
> punishable by the loss of an extra year of eligibility, after the
> mandatory
> one-year period of ineligibility to establish residency. Don't hold your
> breath until you see TH in burnt orange.
> * * * *
> TEXAS BEATS CALIFORNIA: Super Longhorn LB signee Derrick Johnson of Waco
> ran
> an intercepted screen pass back 52 yards for the only Texas touchdown and
> it
> was enough to lead his All-Star team to a 10-7 victory over the
California
>
> All-Stars. It was a sweet victory for the Texas All-Stars, who had lost
> the
> first six games in the series to California. California DT Kaelen Jakes,
> another Longhorn signee, had a sack for the losers, and he told me Mike
> Garcia, the Galena Park offensive lineman who also signed with UT, "is by
> far
> the best offensive lineman I've ever played again, and I played against
> some
> guys in California who were supposed to be among the best in the
country."
> OL
> Will Allen of Cypress Falls, another UT signee who played in the game,
> told
> me he helped block Jakes "and he's every bit as good as Shaun Cody."
Cody,
> a
> heralded California DL who signed with USC, also played in the game. The
> stout Texas defense held California to minus 13 yards rushing.
> * * * *
> My next e-mail/fax will be whenever events warrant.
> * * * *
> The True Orange E-Mail/Fax Service includes  at  least  99 fax/e-mails  a

> year and costs $99 ($79 by E-Mail). The True Orange Newsletter includes
> 26
> newsletters and is published weekly during football season and twice
> monthly
> during most of the other months. It costs $45. Save by subscribing to
both
>
> for $130 (or $110 if you take the faxes via E-Mail  or $99 if you take
the
>
> faxes and newsletter  via E-Mail). Send check  to address at the top of
> page.
> I also  update my 900 number - 1-900-288-8839 - frequently with
recruiting
>
> news. My E-Mail address is: truorange@aol.com.


Yes

	"Pfister, Christian W." <CWPfister@cps-satx.com>
	01/30/2001 09:33 AM

		 To: "'Dan.J.Hyvl@enron.com'" <Dan.J.Hyvl@enron.com>
		 cc:
		 Subject: RE: Enfolio Contract with CPS

As far as providing the purchase order number, should we send that to P. O.
Box 4428, Attn:  Client Services since it won't be on the contract?

-----Original Message-----
From: Dan.J.Hyvl@enron.com [mailto:Dan.J.Hyvl@enron.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 9:17 AM
To: CWPfister@cps-satx.com
Cc: Janet.H.Wallis@enron.com
Subject: RE: Enfolio Contract with CPS

Christian,
     Please forward the contracts to me.  My address is P. O. Box 1188,
Houston, Texas 77251-1188.  My physical address is Suite 3878, 1400 Smith
Street, Houston, Texas 77002.

                    "Pfister,

                    Christian W."         To:     "'Dan.J.Hyvl@enron.com'"

                    <CWPfister@cps        <Dan.J.Hyvl@enron.com>

                    -satx.com>            cc:

                                          Subject:     RE: Enfolio Contract
with CPS
                    01/30/2001

                    09:08 AM

Is Janet Wallis' address P. O. Box 4428, Houston, TX 77210-4428?  Could you
also provide her physical address in the event we send the agreements by
courier?  Thanks!

-----Original Message-----
From: Dan.J.Hyvl@enron.com [mailto:Dan.J.Hyvl@enron.com]
Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 9:47 AM
To: CWPfister@cps-satx.com
Subject: Enfolio Contract with CPS

Christian,
     I spoke with Janet Wallis this morning and she said she was fine with
the redlined changes.  Accordingly, please print 2 originals of the
contract, have it signed and forward both signed contracts to Janet Wallis
for ENA's signature.
----- Forwarded by Dan J Hyvl/HOU/ECT on 01/12/2001 09:45 AM -----

                    Dan J Hyvl

                                         To:     "Pfister, Christian W."

                    01/09/2001           <CWPfister@cps-satx.com>@ENRON

                    11:11 AM             cc:     Janet H
Wallis/HOU/ECT@ECT,
James I
                                         Ducote/HOU/ECT@ECT

                                         Subject:     Enfolio Contract with
CPS(Document
                                         link: Dan J Hyvl)

Christian,
     The below documents has been modified in the manner that you
suggested.  Please make sure that the Purchase Order Number is communicated
to all parties in writing prior to the end of the month if it is to be
used.  The red line should reflect  the changes that you have  been
requesting.  By copy I am requesting Janet Wallis to review the suggested
changes and to communicate directly with you if she approves such changes.
If she notifies you that the changes are okay, then you may print 2
originals of the clean document and have it signed by CPS and forward to
Janet for signature by ENA.  Do not hesitate to call if you have any
questions.   My phone number is (713) 853-6895.

(See attached file: 2001-001ctr.doc)(See attached file: CPS red line 2.doc)


The report named: NG - PROPT P/L <http://trv.corp.enron.com/linkFromExcel.asp?report_cd=11&report_name=NG+-+PROPT+P/L&category_cd=5&category_name=FINANCIAL&toc_hide=1&sTV1=5&TV1Exp=Y&current_efct_date=11/21/2001>, published as of 11/21/2001 is now available for viewing on the website.


Sorry for the delay (I had major e-mail problems).  The memo looks good;
let's get it out.

From: Sandra Lighthill/ENRON@enronXgate on 06/21/2001 05:43 PM
To: Steven J Kean/NA/Enron@Enron
cc: Rick Johnson/ENRON@enronXgate

Subject: FW: EEO Letter

Steve,
As you know, we have developed a memo to be signed by Ken Lay and Jeff
Skilling reaffirming our EEO, Harassment Prevention and Fair Treatment
policies for 2001.  The final version is attached for your review, and if
acceptable, to obtain the needed signatures.

The memo has been reviewed by Cindy, the Legal Department and the OLER
group.  Once signatures have been obtained, return the signed memo to me so
that our group can begin the distribution and posting of the memo to all US
employees.

Please call me at x37921 if you have any questions.  The signed memo can be
sent to me at EB1669c.  Thank you for your assistance in this matter.

Regards,
Sandra


Hey:
That sounds good.  How does Thursday work?
Ben


Start Date: 4/20/01; HourAhead hour: 6;  No ancillary schedules awarded.
Variances detected.
Variances detected in Load schedule.

    LOG MESSAGES:

PARSING FILE -->> O:\Portland\WestDesk\California Scheduling\ISO Final
Schedules\2001042006.txt

---- Load Schedule ----
$$$ Variance found in table tblLoads.
     Details: (Hour: 6 / Preferred:  44.21 / Final:  44.18)
  TRANS_TYPE: FINAL
  LOAD_ID: PGE3
  MKT_TYPE: 2
  TRANS_DATE: 4/20/01
  SC_ID: EPMI


Doing much, much better, thanks.  See ya at zoo's front gates around 1000
(glad you're coming)