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This is an archive article published on January 31, 1999

Case of mistaken identity

DAVOS, JAN 30: US Vice-President Al Gore's aides made light of a glitch which described him as, of all people, Dan Quayle, at a weekend s...

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DAVOS, JAN 30: US Vice-President Al Gore’s aides made light of a glitch which described him as, of all people, Dan Quayle, at a weekend summit of the world’s political and business elite.

Red-faced organisers ordered a rapid correction insert after realising that an official guide to participants at the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting gave Quayle’s personal details under Gore’s photo.

“If that’s the worst of our problems, we will be happy,” one US delegation official said, after the discovery of the glitch at the meeting of some 1,000 global business chiefs and over 250 political leaders.

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A spokesman for the summit’s organisers explained that Quayle’s details had been mistakenly inserted after someone typed `US Vice-President’ into the database when they were compiling the participants’ book.

“We only realised once the book had been printed,” said the spokesman, while saying Gore had been “very understanding” about the error. The thick tome gives details, including phone numbers andE-mail addresses, of the top movers and shakers.

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