Congress has budgeted $100 million to house a peace institute on the National Mall, to be designed by a renowned Israeli architect. The United States Institute of Peace, a federally funded, nonpartisan body established 20 years ago, will be permanently headquartered on a two-and-a-half-acre site overlooking the Lincoln Memorial. Moshe Safdie, who has designed whole Israeli towns, was commissioned to design the building. The budget for the institute’s headquarters was part of the omnibus spending package President Bush signed Wednesday.
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