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Anglo-American bids for DeBeers

Section: Daily Dispatches

2:30p ET Thursday, February 1, 2001

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

I just talked with GATA Chairman Bill Murphy in
Johannesburg. He reports the following:

* He spent more than two hours at dinner last night
with the king of the Zulus, who was sympathetic and
helpful.

* He was interviewed for three minutes this morning
on a national television news program that was seen
throughout the country. Later in the day he visited a

Who sent those bank wires?

Section: Daily Dispatches

10p ET Tuesday, January 30, 2001

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

If you're having trouble running the URL
for the Mining Web profile of GATA Chairman
Bill Murphy, go to the following address,
scroll down to the quot;Analysisquot; section, and
you'll see the headline to click on:

a href=http://www.theminingweb.com/http://www.theminingweb.com//a

CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer

South Africa receives GATA chairman with interest

Section: Daily Dispatches

9p ET Monday, January 29, 2001

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

I.M. Vronsky, proprietor of www.Gold-Eagle.com,
documents in a new essay why gold is the favored
investment during deflation and credit collapse.
You can find it here:

a href=http://www.gold-eagle.com/editorials_98/vronsky060698.htmlhttp://www.gol...

CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer

Mining Web profiles GATA''s Murphy as S. Africa tour begins

Section: Daily Dispatches

5:30p ET Tuesday, January 30, 2001

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

GATA Chairman Bill Murphy is hard at work in South
Africa, having arrived there Sunday.

I spoke with him today from Durban, on the Indian
Ocean, and he was thrilled with the reception he has
been getting.

He already has had a long meeting with Gold Fields
CEO Chris Thompson, and has meetings scheduled with
other mining company executives.

Link to Mining Web profile of GATA Chairman Murphy

Section: Daily Dispatches

9:09p ET Tuesday, January 30, 2001

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

David McKay of the South Africa-based Internet
site, www.theminingweb.com. has done a great
profile of GATA Chairman Bill Murphy, based on
an interview done soon after Murphy's arrival
in that country last weekend.

It's headlined: quot;GATA's Bill Murphy: Fringe lunatic
or golden messiah?quot;

(I really don't know why we can't have both!)

Gold is the place to be in deflation and credit collapse

Section: Daily Dispatches

6:15 ET Sunday, January 28, 2001

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Gold-Eagle has posted an important essay by Jay
Taylor about the money supply, the stock market,
gold, and GATA. You can find it here:

a href=http://www.gold-eagle.com/gold_digest_01/taylor012901.htmlhttp://www.gol...

CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer

Important essay by Jay Taylor at Gold-Eagle

Section: Daily Dispatches

By BILL MURPHY, Chairman
Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee
Friday, January 26, 2001

Before dawn I will leave Dallas on behalf of the Gold
Anti-Trust Action Committee for South Africa to meet
with the press, mining union officials, business and
political leaders, and most all of the major gold
producers in that mineral-rich country.

The mission is simple. GATA and Reg Howe are bringing
that country and much of southern Africa a way to

South African paper raises gold price issue

Section: Daily Dispatches

French firm takes BIS buyout battle to court

By Brian Love

PARIS, Jan. 18 (Reuters) -- A French firm contesting the terms of a
compulsory buyout of private shareholders in the Bank for
International Settlements said on Thursday it had started court
action against BIS advisers J.P. Morgan and Arthur Andersen.

Deminor, a corporate governance consultancy company, said it was
taking U.S. investment bank J.P. Morgan and the audit firm Arthur

Calandra says it''s when with gold, not if

Section: Daily Dispatches

12:15p ET Friday, January 26, 2001

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

The following is an English translation of two articles
published last weekend in Rapport, an Afrikaans-
language newspaper, in Johannesburg, South Africa. They
show that South Africa is taking notice of the imminent
visit there by GATA Chairman Bill Murphy and Reginald
H. Howe, our litigant against the gold cabal.

CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer

Off to South Africa in a few hours

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Thom Calandra
FT MarketWatch.com
January 26, 2001

LONDON (FTMW) -- Gold fund managers are lining up behind gold, with
some suggesting the besieged metal might make a comeback.

The Bank of England's 25-ton gold auction this week, one of a series
of gold sales by central banks worldwide, was 4.8 times
oversubscribed, pointing to a widening gap between physical supplies
and consumer demand.

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