Friday, December 31, 2004

'Stingy' U.S. to Donate $350 MILLION to Tsunami Relief Effort

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP) - The United States upped its tsunami relief aid tenfold to $350 million Friday as the world’s ships and planes converged on devastated shores. Bottlenecks of supplies built up, fears of epidemics grew, and in an echo of 9/11’s aftermath, people at a Thai resort scoured a bulletin board of 4,000 photos in search of the dead and missing.

Six days after the earthquake and tsunamis that ravaged 3,000 miles of African and Asian coastline, the death toll passed 121,000, and 5 million people were homeless. Remote Indian islanders were said to be facing starvation.

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