NAMES IN THE NEWS : Audrey Hepburn in Bangladesh
Audrey Hepburn, in Bangladesh as good-will ambassador for UNICEF, today began a tour of dusty, poor and crowded northern Bangladesh to tell mothers ways to combat disease among children.
Hepburn, who won an Oscar for her role in “Roman Holiday,” arrived Thursday for a six-day visit as special representative of the U.N. Children’s Fund.
“In our part of the world we know much about you by just floods and tragedies that struck Bangladesh. But there is also a lot about your people, your poetry and beauty of your country,” said Hepburn, who was appointed UNICEF’s good-will ambassador in 1981.
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