Powell connects with youth at camp challenge
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Date Added: 24-10-2007
Colin Powell visits with children at a summer camp for low-resource middle school students in Raleigh-Durham, NC area. Read the excerpt below.
University of North Carolina The Daily Tar Heel - Chapel Hill,NC,USA
By: Harrison Jobe
10/12/07
Former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell visited with children from Camp Challenge, a summer camp for low-resource middle school students, Thursday at the Raleigh-Durham International Airport.
Powell spoke to the children during a brief stop at the airport's private terminal and then allowed several to ask questions.
A few of the questions were politically charged. One girl asked whether a Palestinian state was necessary for peace in the Middle East. A boy asked why Osama bin Laden hadn't yet been captured, prompting laughter from the audience.
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