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...campaign charter to Jerusalem, where he is scheduled to meet Wednesday morning with Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Likud Party chairman Benjamin Netanyahu. Obama will visit the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum and Memorial, then meet with President Shimon Peres. From there, he departs for Ramallah in the West Bank, where meetings are scheduled with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Salam Fayyad in the President's office. Dinner Wednesday night will be with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert at the Prime Minister's residence in Jerusalem...
...week Foreign Minister Jean-Baptiste Hilaire met with U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz in Washington and was promised an increase in U.S. aid from $50 million to $70 million for 1986. Even so, many Haitians blame their economic problems on Finance Minister Leslie Delatour, 34, a former World Bank official. Because of his advocacy of a belt-tightening austerity program in a time of staggering unemployment, Delatour is ridiculed by some of his countrymen as a toutou, or puppy, of the Americans. After a fortnight of unrest, the country appeared to be settling down last week...
...improved system is set up to identify donors of organs.'' At present, they charged, ''it almost seems like publicity is the only method that's working.'' In fact, Congress has already taken action to improve the organ distribution system. In 1984 it passed legislation creating a national computer bank to match organ donors to recipients. But the Reagan Administration has resisted spending the $2 million allocated for the network. Last week Senator Albert Gore, a sponsor of the legislation, blasted the Administration for dragging its feet. ''What do we tell families,'' he asked, ''that they have...
...donated to the contras by the U.S. last year never got to them. Of $3.3 million given to one broker for the contras, only $150,000 was actually sent to Central America. Most of the money went to American companies and individuals, and $380,000 was funneled into offshore bank accounts on Grand Cayman Island or in the Bahamas. Alluding to President Reagan's controversial comparison of the contras to America's founders, Democratic Congressman Gerry Studds quipped, ''Our Founding Fathers did not maintain bank accounts in the Cayman Islands.'' The GAO investigation also found that some...
...Bush Pilot Dale Clark spotted something glinting in the water of Carroll Inlet. He pointed. ''Down there, see?'' His passenger, a sightseer from the Lower 48, saw nothing but salt water. Clark, a burly, bearded man, threw his float-equipped Cessna into a tight, 80 degrees bank, and a few moments later landed in the light chop near a sizable school of big black-and- white orcas, the clownish and sociable five-ton mammals called killer whales. Pointed black fins and huge wet backs surrounded the plane in a companionable way. A mother whale and her calf bobbed...