Bono meets with Lantos
By Josh Richman
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007 at 4:01 pm in Tom Lantos, U.S. House.
U2 frontman and international activist Bono met today with House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Lantos, D-San Mateo, to discuss debt relief, fighting poverty and the spread of HIV/AIDS in Africa. Bono, co-founder and a director of DATA (Debt AIDS Trade Africa) handed Lantos a book, “The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It,” by Paul Collier.
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