21.   A week ago the British Foreign Office suggested Swiss banks may still hold billions of dollars worth of gold the Nazis plundered from their victims.

22.   Japanese hold billions of dollars worth of U.S. treasury bonds.

23.   Jewish groups have long accused Switzerland of holding billions of dollars of unclaimed assets belonging to Jews who perished in the death camps.

24.   Jewish groups estimate the banks still hold billions of dollars in dormant wartime accounts.

25.   Jewish groups, which have estimated the banks still hold billions of dollars in dormant wartime accounts, were outraged.

26.   Oil Ministry experts privately say the desert, extending from Baghdad to the Jordanian, Saudi and Syrian borders, holds billions of barrels of oil in reserves.

27.   The partial freeze has held billions of dollars in Argentine savings into the tottering banking system with restrictions that came soon after panicky depositors yanked billions in cash withdrawals.

28.   The seabed off Sakhalin is believed to hold billions of barrels of oil and huge deposits of natural gas.

29.   International investors hold billions of dollars in Canadian stocks and bonds.

30.   The WJC claims Swiss banks are holding billions of dollars which belong to Holocaust victims or their families.