TOKYO (AFX) - French President Jacques Chirac called for a tax on airline fuel and tickets by the end of the year to fight epidemics in Africa in what could be a test for a more far-reaching tax on financial transactions. Chirac made his proposal at the end of a three-day visit to Japan.
Posted March 28, 2005
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