>U.S. TELLS WORLD: GET ON THE NET OR GET LOST
>Ira Magaziner, the Clinton Administration's senior advisor for Internet
>policy development, told representatives of 21 nations at a high-tech forum
>in Amsterdam that the Internet is an engine growth for the world economy and
>that the private sector should lead the Net's development: "We want to come
>together with other countries as equal partners, with the private sector
>leading and government playing a supporting role. Our approach is not to
>have a trade negotiation. By 2005, at least 1 billion people will be on the
>Internet. If 40 million Frenchmen aren't there, that's their problem."
>(New York Times 7 Oct 97)
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