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It came as something of a surprise when Diana, Princess of Wales, made a trip to Angola in 1997, to support the Red Cross's campaign for a total ban on all anti-personnel landmines. Within hours of arriving in Angola, television screens around the world were filled with images of her comforting victims injured in explosions caused by landmines. "I knew the statistics,"she said. "But putting a face to those figures brought the reality home to me; like when I met Sandra, a 13- year-old girl who had lost her leg, and people like her. "

The Princess concluded with a simple message. "We must stop landmines." And she used every opportunity during her visit to repeat this message.

But, back in London, her views were not shared by some members of the British government, which refused to support a ban on these weapons. Angry politicians launched an attack on the Princess in the press. They described her as very "ill-informed"and " a loose cannon ."

The Princess responded by brushing aside the criticisms," This is a distraction we do not need. All I'm trying to do is help."

Opposition parties, the media and the public immediately voiced their support for the Princess. To make matters worse for the government, it soon emerged that the Princess's trip had been approved by the Foreign Office, and that she was in fact very well-informed about both the situation in Angola and the British government's policy regarding landmines. The result was a severe embarrassment for the government.

To try and limit the damage, the Foreign Secretary, Malcolm Rifkidnd, claimed that the Princess's views on landmines were not very different from government policy, and that it was working towards a worldwide ban. The Defence Secretary, Michael Portillo, claimed the matter was a misinterpretation or misunderstanding.

For the Princess, the trip to this war-torn country was an excellent opportunity to use her popularity to show the world how much destruction and suffering landmines can cause. She said that the experience had also given her the chance to get closer to people and their problems.

1. What device was causing injury to people?
2. who was trying to shed light on this issue?
3. What other organization was a part of this effort?
4. what country did she go to?
5. in what year?
6. was this trip a secret and kept out of the press?
7. what was filling the tv screens?
8. what was her concise message?
9. did it seem like her home political body support her trip?
10. of what were they unsupportive?
11. what weapon did they compare her too?
12. did she allow this to concern her?
13. did her government know about this trip before she took it?
14. did anyone give their approval for her to take the trip?
15. who?
16. did this cause a few red faces?
17. who tried to mitigate the damages?
18. what is his title?
19. did they seem to have a more compatible opinion with her now?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. landmines
2. Diana, Princess of Wales
3. Red Cross
4. Angola
5. 1997
6. no
7. images of her comforting victims
8. We must stop landmines.
9. not by some
10. they refused to support a ban on these weapons
11. a loose cannon
12. no
13. It came as a surprise
14. yes
15. by the Foreign Office
16. yes
17. Malcolm Rifkidnd,
18. the Foreign Secretary
19. yes

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Chapter Twenty-One

The Wizard Finds an Enchantment

After Kaliko had failed in his attempts to destroy his guests, as has been related, the Nome King did nothing more to injure them but treated them in a friendly manner. He refused, however, to permit Inga to see or to speak with his father and mother, or even to know in what part of the underground caverns they were confined.

"You are able to protect your lives and persons, I freely admit," said Kaliko; "but I firmly believe you have no power, either of magic or otherwise, to take from me the captives I have agreed to keep for King Gos."

Inga would not agree to this. He determined not to leave the caverns until he had liberated his father and mother, although he did not then know how that could be accomplished. As for Rinkitink, the jolly King was well fed and had a good bed to sleep upon, so he was not worrying about anything and seemed in no hurry to go away.

Kaliko and Rinkitink were engaged in pitching a game with solid gold quoits, on the floor of the royal chamber, and Inga and Bilbil were watching them, when Klik came running in, his hair standing on end with excitement, and cried out that the Wizard of Oz and Dorothy were approaching.

Kaliko turned pale on hearing this unwelcome news and, abandoning his game, went to sit in his ivory throne and try to think what had brought these fearful visitors to his domain.

1. Who was kind to someone?
2. Who was he kind to?
3. Had they been harmed?
4. Had someone tried to do so?
5. Who?
6. Is Kaliko also known as the Nome King?
7. Was anyone being detained?
8. Where?
9. Who were they being held for?
10. Was Inga able to see his family?
11. Did he know where they were?
12. Who was there with Inga?
13. Was he hungry?
14. Did he play a game with Inga?
15. Who did he play one with?
16. What kind?
17. Did everyone ignore them?
18. Why did the game end?
19. Who brought it?
20. What was it?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. the Nome King
2. Kaliko's guests
3. no
4. yes
5. Kaliko
6. yes
7. yes
8. part of the underground caverns
9. King Gos
10. no
11. no
12. Rinkitink
13. no
14. no
15. Kaliko
16. a game with solid gold quoits
17. no
18. because of unwelcome news
19. Klik
20. the Wizard of Oz and Dorothy were approaching

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(CNN) -- Two former presidents reflected on their greatest regrets in office Monday, each looking back to issues that continue to plague the nation years later.

Former presidents and political rivals Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush now share philanthropic efforts.

Former Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton appeared together at a question-and-answer forum before the National Automobile Dealers Association in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Asked his biggest regret after leaving office, Bush said he now wonders whether he should have tried to get Saddam Hussein to leave office at the end of the first Gulf War in 1991.

He told the gathering, "I've thought a lot about it, but at the end of Desert Storm, the question was should we have kind of kept going on that road to death and all this slaughter until Saddam Hussein showed up and laid his sword on the table, surrendered. And the common wisdom was he wouldn't do that."

But he said a conversation with an FBI agent who interrogated Saddam after he was captured has made him reconsider.

Bush recalled their talk, "I said, 'What if we just say he has to come to surrender, would he have done it?' And this guy said, 'I'm absolutely convinced he would have.' My experts tell me he wouldn't have."

Bush said, "We ended it the way we said we would" as a military success, but noted a cleaner ending "would have been perfect."

He added, "If we had tried to get Saddam Hussein to come and literally surrender and put his sword on the table, I think it might have been avoided some of the problems that we did have in the future from him."

1. How many presidents are working together?
2. Who?
3. Where did they appear?
4. For what organization?
5. When?
6. When was the first Gulf War?
7. What does Bush regret?
8. Has he thought about it much?
9. What was the war's nickname?
10. Who said Saddam would surrender?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. Two
2. Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush
3. New Orleans, Louisiana
4. National Automobile Dealers Association
5. Monday
6. 1991
7. he should have tried to get Saddam Hussein to leave office
8. Yes
9. Desert Storm
10. this guy