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...million has been set aside to educate the 165 children who were financially dependent on someone who died in the bombing. The foundation has also paid off mortgages, retired car loans, hired nurses and paid the caseworkers who help families regroup, relocate or apply for such benefits as workmen's compensation. But it has also turned down requests, and that has engendered some bitterness. "It is hard to have $20,000 in credit-card bills," says Anthony, "but that is completely unrelated to the tragedy...
...BASEMENT OFFICE suites in suburban Murray Hill, New Jersey, are being expanded almost 50%, and in a big rush. Workmen are knocking down walls and hammering nails into temporary partitions to get cubicles ready as early as next week for the people who will be surging...
...were subjectedto endless bureaucratic wrangling. Examples: foreign doctors were rebuffed at first because they did not have Japanese licenses; Swiss sniffer dogs were threatened with quarantine by the Agriculture Ministry. Conditions in the stricken port city, however, are improving, with 18,600 emergency housing units under way, thousands of workmen busily laying new telephone and electric cables and, most cheering of all, the reopening of Kobe's schools. Middle East: Another Bombing A Palestinian suicide bombing in the heart of Israel took the lives of 21 Israelis and wounded 64 others, sending waves of shock and fury through the country...
...workmen scrambled last week to apply a glistening coat of white paint to the outside of police headquarters in downtown Port-au-Prince, a tax official standing on a nearby street corner summed up the skepticism that hangs over Haiti like a noxious bouquet. "It will take more than white paint to change this country," he said. "It's all just dressing on the cake...
After 12 relaxing days on Martha's Vineyard, the First Family returned to Washington -- but not to their customary quarters. As workmen rushed to complete repairs on the White House's antiquated heating and ventilation systems -- including some "minimum asbestos removal" -- President and Mrs. Clinton settled into Blair House, the government guesthouse across the street...