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* 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