Daily Dispatches

9:08p ET Thursday, April 4, 2002

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

A remarkable financial market commentary that
centered on GATA's work was distributed
yesterday by the Knight-Ridder/Tribune news
service and published at the CNN and London
Evening Standard Internet sites.

While we don't know at this hour how extensively
the commentary has been published in the United
States, the Knight-Ridder/Tribune news service is

Having read this far through the ruling, it
was becoming clear that the judge was
stretching to justify his conclusions. But
the most egregious statement was yet to come
in the tortured reasoning offered in the
following conclusion: quot;The 17 directors of
the BIS voted unanimously to adopt the
mandatory share redemption plan. Only two of
the directors, Greenspan and McDonough, are
defendants in this case. Given the votes of

10:26p ET Monday, April 1, 2002

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

TheMiningWeb.com's Tim Wood has an essay about
the dismissal of Reg Howe's federal lawsuit against
the U.S. government, the Bank for International
Settlements, and the bullion banks. You can find it
here:

a href=http://m1.mny.co.za/MGGold.nsf/Current/4225685F0043D1B285256B8E0083959ht...

By James Turk
The Freemarket Gold amp; Money Report

The long-awaited ruling from Judge Lindsay
has arrived. All claims against the Bank for
International Settlements and the other
defendants in Reg Howe's lawsuit have been
dismissed.

When I received this news, my initial
reactions were dismay and disappointment, but
I was also surprised. The wrongdoing by the
Defendants appears so clear-cut, and the