If he should die before reaching thirty, the fortune goes to various American charities.

Japanese officials have told the nation's leading executives that their companies will be able to take heavy tax deductions for contributions to American charities.

Several American charities have established special funds and sent disaster teams to the Midwest.

The plot, he adds cryptically, "had to do with American charities."

By the end of the 1980's, Japanese companies doing business in the United States had contributed $200 million to American charities.

The children were often cared for in centers supported by American charities.

But American charities, at their very best, can build a bridge only a short part of the way across the chasm.

He has been a board member of the American charity for the homeless, Comic Relief.

He remembered the head of a major American charity who had come to see him several times to ask for money.

What they have done to shape those times provides a textbook in the new realities of American charity.