Daily Dispatches

11:55p EST Thursday, December 2, 1999

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Our old friend Reginald H. Howe, the Harvard-trained
lawyer and former mining company executive, sounds more
like GATA than GATA itself in another brilliant essay
he has posted at his web site, www.goldensextant.com. I
think that Reg may get closer to anyone else to what is
really happening behind government doors on both sides

12:05p EST Sunday, December 5, 1999

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Here's Friday's bad news, from Reuters.

CHRIS POWELL, Secretary
Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc.

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Gold Tumbles to 10-Week Low

Friday, December 3, 1999

By Marius Bosch

LONDON (Reuters) -- Gold prices tumbled on Friday to
2-1/2-month lows, dipping below $280 a troy ounce as
investment funds sold out of long positions, before

2:30p EST Thursday, December 2, 1999

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Here's an important story from today's Financial
Times examining the Ashanti Gold disaster and
particularly the role played by its banker, Goldman
Sachs, which helped put Ashanti in the soup and then
made a bundle bailing the company out, minus a good
deal of its innards. Note the interest ascribed to
the Bank of England and to all parties involved --

11:10p EST Thursday, December 2, 1999

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Here's a special quot;Midasquot; commentary by GATA
Chairman Bill Murphy at www.LeMetropoleCafe.com,
wherein he says that the gold shorts are still
very much in trouble and appeals for support
for GATA's forthcoming advertising campaign to
ask the crucial questions about manipulation
of the gold market.

Please post this as seems useful.