Subject: 2532 Clinton Uses E-Mail to Respond to Swedish Prime Minister Feb 18 Clinton Uses E-Mail to Respond to Swedish Prime Minister Feb 18 SUPERHIGHWAY REPORT HPCwire ============================================================================= Washington, D.C. -- President Clinton exchanged the first-ever electronic message with another head of government on February 4. According to reports from the Associated Press, the White House said the computer messages, commonly called E-mail, started with a "Dear Bill" electronic letter from Swedish Prime Minister Carl Bildt. Clinton responded the next day with a "Dear Carl" E-Mail. In his message, AP reports, Bildt said he was testing the global Internet system. He congratulated Clinton on ending the trade embargo on Vietnam and said he will take up the issue of Americans taken prisoner or missing in action in that country when he visits Hanoi in April. "Sweden is -- as you know -- one of the leading countries in the world in the field of telecommunications, and it is only appropriate that we should be among the first to use the Internet also for political contacts and communications around the globe, Yours, Carl." Bildt concluded. Clinton's reply -- "Dear Carl: "I appreciate your support for my decision to end the trade embargo on Vietnam and thank you for all that Sweden has done on the question of the POW-MIAS. I share your enthusiasm for the potential of emerging communications technologies. This demonstration of electronic communications is an important step toward building a global information superhighway. Sincerely, Bill." ***************************************************************************** H P C W I R E S P O N S O R S Product specifications and company information in this section are available to both subscribers and non-subscribers. 901) ANS 902) IBM Corp. 904) Intel SSD 905) Maximum Strategy 906) nCUBE 907) Digital Equipment 909) Fujitsu America 912) Avalon Computer 914) Applied Parallel Res. 915) Genias Software 916) MasPar Computer 919) Transtech Parallel 921) Cray Research Inc. ***************************************************************************** Copyright 1993 HPCwire. To receive the weekly HPC Select News Bulletin at no charge, send e-mail to "trial@hpcwire.ans.net". ----- End Included Message -----