>> robert zoellick wrote a piece for -- as you know, a newspaper, "the financial times" and in it, heitely, almost coughing into his sleeve, mentioned perhaps that we might think about gold as a monetary unit. this was the fifth point of five points. the first four which we don't remember but we do remember that he had the temerity, the audacity to mention gold. robert zoellick is an establishmentarrian. >> charlie: deputy secretary of state. >> he certainly should be -- >> charlie: worked with jim baker. >> yet he mentioned this, so the mention of it by a man of his caliber, or his station in the establishment, is extraordinary. "the financial times" published this essay one day, the next day it devoted most of the paper to trashing it. >> charlie: where do you stand on that? >> i am with the fifth point in zoellick's essay. >> charlie: you're with him? >> yeah. >> i would agree with that. >> charlie: he's right, and you agree? >> to come from a man with that background is an interesting shift in the establishment view. that was a leak in the dike, let's say, of the otherwise impervi

in paris, bank president robert zoellick said he'd spoken to the president of mali, and urged african banks to take similar steps. there are also fears of renewed violence in the streets. opposition supporters protested after the election. >> ( translated ): because he is destroying our country we do not care about him. we like... we need alassane ouattara. >> woodruff: today's u.n. report said at least 173 people have already been killed in post- election violence. it also cited hundreds of arrests and dozens of cases of torture. the u.n. top human rights official in ivory coast called for a peaceful resolution. >> we are not going to solve the current political crisis by extra-judicial killings, by looting and burning, by illegal arrests and detention, by enforced disappearances. >> woodruff: if conflict erupts, it may involve the 10,000 u.n. peacekeepers in ivory coast. over the weekend, president gbagbo ordered them to leave. they refused, and on monday, the top u.n. envoy in the country, said government supporters had threatened his troops. >> ( translated ): president gbagbo cam