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BROTHER’S KEEPER: The World Affairs Council of...

By John Needham, Helene Elliott and Zan Dubin
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BROTHER’S KEEPER: The World Affairs Council of Orange County has gone after big names on both sides of the Middle East controversy and has finally landed one. Council President Sir Eldon Griffith says the group has “invited virtually every member of the Israeli Cabinet” to speak, so far with no luck. . . . But its Feb. 17 dinner at the Anaheim Marriott features a prince of a speaker: Crown Prince Hassan of Jordan, heir to the crown of his older brother, King Hussein.

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Helene Elliott

Helene Elliott was with the Los Angeles Times’ Sports department from 1989 to 2024, first as a staff writer and then, starting in 2006, as a columnist. She became the first female journalist to be honored with a plaque in the Hall of Fame of a major professional sport as the 2005 winner of the Hockey Hall of Fame’s Elmer Ferguson Award, awarded to writers “who have brought honor to journalism and to hockey.” A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, she has covered 18 Olympics.

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