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...affected areas, such as Oxfam or ActionAid, then send your donation to them directly. Since you'll already be on their database, this will cut down on their administrative costs. Alternatively, you could give to an umbrella group such as the Disasters Emergency Committee in Britain (www.dec.org.uk) or Aktion Deutschland Hilft (www.aktion-deutschland-hilft.de) in Germany. These groups coordinate donations for several national charities and ensure that money goes to organizations best placed to help those in need. If there is a specific charity you admire, you might want to consider giving an unrestricted donation, which allows the charity to allocate...
...otherwise happy holiday. For three weeks Christina Onassis, 32, had frolicked on the beaches of Skorpios, made side trips to other Greek islands and nibbled-well, all right, feasted-on the local cuisine. But when the heiress boarded her personal Learjet to fly home to Nice, France, from Aktion military airport last week, an official took her passport and forbade her to leave the country. Reason: a pending court case in which the Greek government claims that Christina owes $33 million worth of inheritance taxes on her father's property. That was when Christina began throwing her weight around...
...program is a sort of penance corps organized by Lothar Kreyssig, a prominent layman of the German Evangelical Church, who has sent two teams of volunteer German youths to work in the harsh surroundings of Israeli kibbutzim (collective farms). Financed entirely by Germans, Dr. Kreyssig's Aktion Suhnezeichen (roughly, Operation Penitence) asks nothing of Israel but the right to work without pay on Israeli projects. Says a spokesman of the organization: "Only by sharing the life of the Jewish people and helping overcome the feeling against us can we combat anti-Semitism...
Since then, every student at the school has been involved in Aktion Kartoffel-schale (Operation Potato Pee1). Each night they collected peels from their homes and from restaurants; each morning they lugged them to school to be weighed. For every 5.5 Ibs., a student would get one point, and one student earned as many as 250 points in the course of six months. Finally, the students had enough in the kitty (11,000 DM) to make a down payment on a new playground...
Perfectly consistent but highly embittered, Comrade Trotsky, who was ousted for his "Left heresy" (TIME, Oct. 10, 1927), has written a new book, The Permanent Revolution, published in German last week by Die Aktion, Berlin. In this fat volume he flays Stalin because the Dictator concentrates his efforts primarily in Russia...
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