Exiles Health

Relenting in the face of pressure at home and abroad, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin agreed Thursday to permit two Red Cross representatives to visit the 415 Palestinians expelled last month to southern Lebanon as members of militant Islamic groups. Rabin said he will allow, on "a one-time basis," the Red Cross to send two representatives by U.N. helicopter across Israel's self-proclaimed "security zone" in southern Lebanon to the deportees' tent camp to check their health and conditions.

The photograph is propped up on a window ledge, dwarfed by a broad, government-issued desk and a metal filing cabinet, but it is his reason for going on, nevertheless. It shows two people with AIDS standing together at the podium of the 1992 Democratic National Convention in New York--Elizabeth Glaser in a smart black suit and pearls, and Bob Hattoy, requiring none of the three baseball caps he packed in case the chemotherapy made his hair fall out.

The photograph is propped up on a window ledge, dwarfed by a broad, government-issued desk and a metal filing cabinet, but it is his reason for going on, nevertheless. It shows two people with AIDS standing together at the podium of the 1992 Democratic National Convention in New York--Elizabeth Glaser in a smart black suit and pearls, and Bob Hattoy, requiring none of the three baseball caps he packed in case the chemotherapy made his hair fall out.

Relenting in the face of pressure at home and abroad, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin agreed Thursday to permit two Red Cross representatives to visit the 415 Palestinians expelled last month to southern Lebanon as members of militant Islamic groups. Rabin said he will allow, on "a one-time basis," the Red Cross to send two representatives by U.N. helicopter across Israel's self-proclaimed "security zone" in southern Lebanon to the deportees' tent camp to check their health and conditions.