Sunday 5/10/98 3:49 PM J Orlin Grabbe John Young Orlin, u 5/10/98 Albuquerque Journal What Does ‘Crash’ Mean? Hang Around William Pfaff Syndicated Columnist PARIS - A friend said to me the other day that the word “crash” no longer is part of the American vocabulary. We only know stock market “correction,” and corrections have just be waited out. He explained to me that the stock market only goes up, because immense popular and political interests, as well as corporate interests are today committed to its only going up. His implied argument was that the American government has no choice but to make it go up. It struck me, as he was peaking, that this might have been what Jay Gatsby was saying to his friends during the luxurious summer of 1929, a few months before Gatsby disappeared off the end of that dock in West Egg, on Long Island Sound, or went back to the Middle West - if it was the Middle West - which, for Gatsby, would have been worse. But I am a child of the Depression. ... Pfaff concludes I would stick with an older American assumption, that if something seems too good to be true, it probably is. Accompanying picture by NANCY OHANIAN/ LOS ANGLES TIMES SYNDICATE has a bull pictured precariously perched atop a pinnacle ... with rocks falling around its feet. John I just saw Payne-Morales v. NSA: Motion to Amend Order May 9, 1998 and Froomkin on Payne-Morales Motion to Amend Order May 9, 1998 at http://www.jya.com/crypto.htm But I will not read them until Monday. Let’s all hope someone sees the importance of posting the requested documents on Internet. Then settling this unfortunate mess. Later bill