Rescues Beat Dimming Odds in Haiti
source: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/19/world/americas/19haiti.html?hp
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — As new waves of American troops prepared to land in this battered nation on Monday, rescue workers and military teams already on the ground worked to quicken the delivery of aid to hundreds of thousands of Haitians growing increasingly desperate for food and clean water.
The United Nations World Food Program said it planned to distribute 200 tons of food aid on Monday to 95,000 people at eight locations and appealed anew for public donations to the relief effort. The calls for more help came even as aid workers, mobile clinics and other supplies continued to arrive at the airport and overland from the Dominican Republic.
Former President Bill Clinton, the United Nations special envoy to Haiti, was also expected to arrive later in the day.
More United Nations peacekeepers were visible on the streets of the capital Monday morning after reports of a rash of lootings and shootings a day earlier. Buses packed with refugees continued to stream out of the city as people gambled that they had a better chance of finding food and shelter in the countryside.
As scavengers looked for metal in the rubble, rescue teams continued their search for survivors despite dwindling odds and rising tallies of the dead. The Haitian prime minister, Jean-Max Bellerive, told ABC News that 70,000 bodies had been found, and a top American commander in Haiti said Sunday that “we are going to have to be prepared for the worst.”
In an interview with ABC’s “This Week,” Lt. Gen. P. K. Keen was asked about estimates numbering the dead at 150,000 to 200,000. He called those figures a “start point,” but said there were still no exact casualty counts.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/19/world/americas/19haiti.html?hp
The United Nations World Food Program said it planned to distribute 200 tons of food aid on Monday to 95,000 people at eight locations and appealed anew for public donations to the relief effort. The calls for more help came even as aid workers, mobile clinics and other supplies continued to arrive at the airport and overland from the Dominican Republic.
Former President Bill Clinton, the United Nations special envoy to Haiti, was also expected to arrive later in the day.
More United Nations peacekeepers were visible on the streets of the capital Monday morning after reports of a rash of lootings and shootings a day earlier. Buses packed with refugees continued to stream out of the city as people gambled that they had a better chance of finding food and shelter in the countryside.
As scavengers looked for metal in the rubble, rescue teams continued their search for survivors despite dwindling odds and rising tallies of the dead. The Haitian prime minister, Jean-Max Bellerive, told ABC News that 70,000 bodies had been found, and a top American commander in Haiti said Sunday that “we are going to have to be prepared for the worst.”
In an interview with ABC’s “This Week,” Lt. Gen. P. K. Keen was asked about estimates numbering the dead at 150,000 to 200,000. He called those figures a “start point,” but said there were still no exact casualty counts.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/19/world/americas/19haiti.html?hp
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