WORLD : Bush Son to Hand Over Quake Aid
President-elect George Bush’s son and grandson will travel to Soviet Armenia on Christmas Day to help distribute American aid to earthquake victims, Soviet officials said today.
Soviet Foreign Ministry spokesman Gennady I. Gerasimov told Tass press agency that Jeb Bush and his 11-year-old son, George Prescott Bush, “will participate in a ceremony of transferring to Armenia relief aid from the United States.” The aid will include medicine, medical equipment and toys from the Americares charity for children who survived the Dec. 7 quake, which killed at least 55,000 people.
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