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...demonstrators got moral support from unexpected sources. After having his tour of the Kalandia camp cut short by rock throwing, Republican Senator John Chafee of Rhode Island faulted Israel's management of the crisis. Another visitor, British Foreign Office Junior Minister David Mellor, infuriated Israelis when he emerged from the Jabalia refugee camp in Gaza and called conditions in such camps an "affront to civilized values." He also sharply upbraided an Israeli army colonel for arresting a 14-year-old boy accused of throwing stones. "I saw no stones being thrown," Mellor told the stunned officer...
...stories and four novels), as well as some 12,000 books about the sacred writings. The familiar lean figure with Inverness cape, deerstalker and underslung pipe regularly appears in the headlines. Speculating two weeks ago on who laid the mines plaguing U.S. convoys in the Persian Gulf, David Mellor, a British Foreign Office official mused, "Sherlock Holmes wouldn't take too long to resolve that...
Fortunately, nobody has baskets like the Peabody has baskets. Some of the items are more than 200 years old, and all are very valuable, Mellor said...
...Indian baskets are becoming quite fashionable works of art to own," said Mellor. "Sotheby's started auctioning them recently, and that's the stamp of chic. Now everybody's interested," he added...
...museum has not always taken such good care of the collection, Mellor said. Some of the baskets had been crushed to fit into small boxes, and others have holes in them where they were tacked to the wall...