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Wealthy bitten by gold fever bug LONDON (AP) -Arab oil sheels, cautious beaches, Penhencs, shrewd Chinese mercantile traders and speculators are all competitors in the worldwide gold rush that has added almost 10% to the global demand. Wealthy Japanese are turning their attention from platinum to gold, dealers say. Their high prices reflect huge quantities of the yellow metal, which for them has semi-roligous as well as vitreous qualities. guessed, since spot gold trading figures are kept secret by all. "The wealthy individual is the key to it—the oil sheik, the financial operating out of Hong Kong, the wealthy middle class in France," says metalls analyst David Fitz-Clarke of the London branch of the brokerage firm Citigroup, the role of national banks and other big institutions in this week's record run-up to more than $750 an ounce. THE ACTUAL numbers of buyers and the volume of their purchases can only be One index of the rush is that London's "Big Five" gold dealing houses recently have been taking many minutes longer to finish than for afternoon benchmark "fixing", prices. Although it is possible in many countries to anamass a gold fortune in paper certificates alone, dealers say real ingots and coins are solders to buyers, often in different lands. Why do they buy? Gold, for all its beauty, has the habits of a buzzard. It thrives on furlings of currency, cheevers economic crabs and garnet fat on inflation. Wary investors know that when everything else starves, the buzzard starves last. income from oil sales has actually increased their worries a about holding currency; THE INTERNATIONAL currency exchange firm Deak-Perera explained in its newsletter that the Arabs' massive rise in "The Arabs' real fear is that the next big flight from the U.S. dollar will precipitate an exchange freeware for greenbacks that would wipe out one OPEC price gains, undermine their massive holdings of U.S. Treasury securities and disrupt their export markets. So gold is getting all the action they need; the currencies would otherwise enjoy." Many of the buyers like their gold in hand—to display on their wives, wrists or to put in secret hiding places. The French, who tradition says keep their currency unchanged, estimated to have 6.000 tons of gold, worth more than $7 billion at current prices, stashed away by the Indians 3.000 tons worth more than $2 billion. 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