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...Enemy / Almost two decades after the war ended, President Clinton will finally and fully lift the U.S. trade embargo with Vietnam in the next few weeks, say those familiar with his plans. Meanwhile, Ross Perot hopes to fight to keep the embargo in place, and recently held a strategy summit to plan his campaign. In attendance were the leaders of two major groups of MIA/POW relatives, as well as Republican Senator Bob Smith of New Hampshire...
...tougher. In the wake of the first African summit on HIV/AIDS, which took place in Nigeria in late 2000, Nigeria's President, Olusegun Obasanjo, held photo ops in which he hugged HIV-positive people, one of whom was Ishaya. Weeks later, she was horrified when posters, newspaper ads and giant billboards appeared all over the country, showing her embracing the President. A rumor began circulating that he had given her half a million dollars--not entirely preposterous, given the corruption in Nigeria's government. Beggars besieged her, and relatives, among them those who had shunned her, began demanding help, even...
When we closed the magazine on Saturday night, however, our work was only beginning. Following up on the themes set by the issue, TIME is convening an extraordinary three-day Global Health Summit in New York City this week. With major support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, we have invited more than 400 people from all walks of life--policymakers; religious, civic and business leaders; thinkers and doers; scientists; entertainers; journalists; and public-health officials--to help devise practical solutions to the health crisis in the developing world. The conference is organized around 10 "big questions," from...
This issue and the summit are centerpieces of a week-long multimedia effort to move public health closer to the top of the national agenda. ABC News and Charlie Rose are scheduled to devote segments of their shows to the conference, while PBS, starting on Nov. 1 at 9 p.m. E.T., will begin running a six-hour series titled Rx for Survival--A Global Health Challenge. Finally, Alicia Keys will hold a concert in New York City benefiting Keep a Child Alive on Nov. 3 with such guests as Usher, Paul Simon and the Agape Children's Choir from Durban...
DIED. MICHAEL WARD, 80, British surgeon and mountain climber whose expertise in both areas made possible the historic first ascent of Mount Everest in 1953; in West Sussex, England. Although medical duties kept Ward from the summit, Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay conquered it using Ward's expertise in high-altitude medicine and, more important, the route he devised to the summit using an archival map he had unearthed in Nepal...