101.   The two women were arrested after officials from the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence arrested two Indians who had bought the gold from them.

102.   The Swedish government on Thursday appointed a commission to probe whether the central bank bought gold stolen by the Nazis in World War II, the foreign ministry said.

103.   Jewish groups also blame the Swiss National Bank for buying gold from the Nazis it knew had been pillaged from occupied countries.

104.   Japanese investors were also benefiting from the strength of the yen against the dollar to buy gold, he said.

105.   Jewish groups have accused Swiss financial institutions of profiteering from their role as middlemen for the German Reichsbank from whom they bought gold pillaged from occupied countries.

106.   Lower inflation reduces the incentive for traders to escape the effect of rising retail prices by buying gold.

107.   Many lower and middle class people buy gold as a way of building up long term savings.

108.   Some nervous investors were encouraged to buy gold after Russian President Boris Yeltsin sacked his security adviser Alexander Lebed, the GNI trading house said.

109.   Swiss banks bought gold from the German Reichsbank which was traded for foreign currency that went to fund its war machine.

110.   Switzerland is accused of blatantly profiteering from the war by buying gold from the Germans it knew had been stolen from occupied countries.