Before attending a prayer breakfast in Washington, President Clinton held a brief meeting with the father of an American student killed in a 1995 terror attack in the Gaza Strip. Clinton promised Stephen Flatow that he would look into charges that the State Department is blocking Flatow’s attempts to collect damages from Iran, which a U.S. court ruled had financed the attack that killed his daughter Alisa.
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