This is news on the hour, Ed Wilson reporting. The President and First Lady will visit Africa on a good will tour in May. They plan to visit eight African countries.
Reports from China say the Chinese want closer ties between China and the U. S. and Western Europe. A group of top Chinese scientists will start its ten-nation tour next month.
Here in Miami, the mayor is still meeting with the leaders of the teachers’ union to try to find a way to end the strike. City schools are still closed after two weeks.