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Dredging at Real Del Castillo, Baja
October 2008 by Walter L. Hunt

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September 1999
The International Monetary Fund is reconsidering selling some of its gold reserves to help finance a Western debt-relief plan for some of the world's most debt-burdened countries, a top IMF official said.
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