Around the World

* President Clinton Signs Fiscal Year 1998
Foreign Aid Bill as Approved by Congress
– $87.5 Million Earmarked Aid for Armenia
– $12.5 Million Approved for Direct
Humanitarian Aid to Nagorno-Karabagh

* Armenia Fund, Inc.
(Hayastan Pan-Armenian fund)
Holds Successful  National Giving Telethoní97 on Thanksgiving Day
– The Goal is to Rebuild and Strengthen  Artsakh (Karabagh)
– 14,000 people donate more than $2,500,000(Donations are still being accepted)

* United Armenian Fund – $200 Million In Aid to Armenia Over Past Eight Years
– 95 airlifts, 289 sea containers
$21 million of heating fuel

* Armenian Nuclear Reactor is Reopened
November 24 after Four Month Break

* British Airways Starts London-Yerevan
Flights December 1

* Turkish Government Attempts to Establish Chair of Ottoman and Turkish History at UCLA- See Opinion on Page 8