A Chain-Letter Reaction

"34 million friends" drive raises $2-million in overseas aid

At 3 o'clock in the morning, Jane Roberts had an idea. It was July 2002, and just a few days earlier, the Bush administration had announced that it would not release $34-million appropriated by Congress to sponsor the United Nations Population Fund, an agency of the United Nations that provides reproductive-health programs in more than 140 countries.

Although the agency does not provide abortions, its family-planning

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