German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder tries to phone government spokesman
Uwe-Karsten Heye during his opening tour together with his wife Doris
Schroeder-Koepf (R) on the CeBIT computer fair in Hanover March 13,
2002. The world's largest technology and communications fair opened on
Wednesday in the northern German city of Hanover amid industry hopes
that it could spark a recovery in a sector hard hit by an economic
slump. Hundreds of thousands of visitors will descend on the seven-day
CeBIT 2002 trade show to view and test innovations in the software,
online commerce, IT engineering and other voice, vision and data
systems. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch

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