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Schweitzer, who collaborated with McConnell on the book, stumbled into being an intelligence operative. From his librarian's job he moved to the U.N., serving as a relief official in Indochina until 1983, when he organized a nonprofit charity to aid Vietnamese boat people. Six years later, during a trip to Hanoi to arrange a hospital visit, he asked his Vietnamese hosts on a whim if he could tour the Central Military Museum, which housed the Defense Ministry's war artifacts. The Vietnamese agreed, permitting him to browse through displays of uniforms and equipment taken from members...
...Nonprofit Centers for Learning in L.A. and New York; books like A Return to Love...
...conservative sponsors like the Coors Brewing Co. and advertisers who run the gamut from Magnavox to a firm that sells Rush Limbaugh commemorative beer steins. In addition, most organizations sponsor their own shows. The weekly Gingrich hour, which costs $125,000 a year, is paid for by his nonprofit Progress & Freedom Foundation...
...women in Europe have used mifepristone (known there by its brand name, RU 486), the threat of consumer boycotts by antiabortion organizations discouraged Roussel Uclaf, the drug's European manufacturer, from marketing the pills in America. Instead, the company eventually agreed to let the Population Council, a nonprofit group, sponsor clinical trials of mifepristone in the U.S. Last month tests began at some of the 12 sites around the country, five of them Planned Parenthood clinics. Based on the results of these trials -- which will involve 2,100 volunteers nationwide -- the Food and Drug Administration will decide whether to approve...
...other conference organizers received primary funding for the conference from Student Pugwash USA, a national nonprofit organization aimed at training students to solve global problems with science and technology...