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University of Michigan Regent Andrea Fischer Newman told the Daily that Bollinger is Columbia-bound...
...performing the world's first human heart transplant; in Cyprus. His patient died 18 days later, but Barnard's second transplant recipient survived for 19 months. His operations also pioneered the use of organs from brain-dead victims (see Eulogy). DIED. CARMINE NIGRO, 91, first chess teacher of Bobby Fischer, the former world champion; in Peachtree City, Georgia. In 1951, Nigro, then president of the Brooklyn Chess and Checkers Club, befriended the eight-year-old Fischer at a chess exhibition. He taught the boy for three years, but Fischer found a new tutor when his skills surpassed Nigro's. Fischer...
...Jews in Germany - a country that has maintained close ties with Israel since its founding - have also pushed their government to intervene more forcefully in the conflict, with results: since his Middle East visit last month, Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer has taken the lead in trying to broker peace talks between Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres. And although Europe's leaders are often more sympathetic to criticisms of Israel than their American counterparts - last week European representatives remained at the U.N. conference on racism after U.S. and Israeli delegates walked out - Jewish activists say they...
...That kind of sensitivity about coverage of Israel is standard in Germany, whose close relationship with Israel is determined by what Fischer has called his country's "special historic obligation" to Israel. Recent developments in the Middle East have also prompted reaction from Germany's Jewish community, which usually limits its political activism to fighting anti-Semitism and racism within the country. Last month Paul Spiegel, President of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, took the unusual step of publishing a statement that reflected the organization's growing willingness to speak out on behalf of the Israeli cause. Writing...
...part of a delicate peace initiative to end seven months of hostilities along with the adoption of political reforms. Rival sides differed on the number of weapons to be collected, but reports said 3,000 had been agreed on. ISRAEL German Peace Bid An offer by Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer to hold cease-fire talks in Berlin was welcomed by Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. But proposals for a zone-by-zone truce seemed far from events on the ground, where at least 15 people died in continuing violence. IRAN Jailed for "Insults" A prominent...