From today's Sanger's Review of Y2K News Reports.

United Nations hosts conference for national Y2K coordinators from 173 nations ... OMB "cannot determine if additional funding is needed because most federal agencies did not submit their contingency plans with cost estimates on time." Defense Department is "considering unplugging itself from the Internet to defend against a simultaneous cyber assault" ... National Science Foundation to make a senior research psychologist "available to broadcast and print media" to "provide expert commentary on people's behavioral decisions based on their Y2K-related fears and concerns" ... Vietnam Airlines canceled flights during the rollover ... Dutch government says 91% of "operations are protected" against Y2K problems ... Dell, Cisco, Motorola, Sun, and others join in "High Tech Consortium" ... ASX finishes analyzing test results ... Queensland Department of Main Roads "is expected to complete the first phase in its year 2000 project next week" ... TAB? "the number of doomsday predictions in year 2000 reports has dropped noticeably."

-- pshannon (pshannon@sangersreview.com), June 22, 1999

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The number of doomesday predictions in official reports will decrease steadily as we approach 2000 (whatever the underlying truth), they don't want the public to panic before 2000, however we will be faced with the reality soon enough

-- dick of the dale (rdale@coynet.com), June 23, 1999.