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Iraq humanitarian crisis verging on catastrophe
Sun Foreign StaffKUWAIT CITY -- With Iraqi hospitals full of wounded and water shortages made evident by people in southern Iraq drinking from drainage ditches, humanitarian aid workers are warning that the worst for civilians could be yet to come. Hundreds of...Tags: Disasters and Accidents, Non Government Organizations, Iraq, United Nations, Charity
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U.S. plans millions in Afghan aid
Sun National StaffWASHINGTON - President Bush committed the United States yesterday to spending $320 million on food and medicine for impoverished civilians in Afghanistan, who are bracing for a harsh winter and possible military strikes in their country. In his...Tags: Disasters and Accidents, United Nations, Unemployment, Religious Conflicts, Charity
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Pakistani leader urges calm
Sun Foreign StaffISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Quoting from the Quran and dressed in his military uniform, Pakistan's ruler, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, assured his nation in a television address last night that his decision to help the United States search for Osama bin Laden would...Tags: Disasters and Accidents, United Nations, Religious Conflicts, New York, Afghanistan
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The good sport
Sun StaffLike all politicians, Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. has them: those authorized tales from youth that - though twisted or embellished over the years - help define the person he is today. There is the humble-beginnings-in-a-rowhouse-in-Arbutus legend. There is the...Tags: Disasters and Accidents, Family, Clubs and Associations, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Dining and Drinking
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Rivalries and Lawlessness Thwart Efforts to Deliver Aid to Afghans
Times Staff WriterAs millions of hungry and sick Afghans wait for help, rival warlords and bandits have made large parts of the country so lawless that local and foreign aid workers can't deliver desperately needed supplies, relief officials say. The possibly catastrophic...Tags: Disasters and Accidents, Social Issues, International Relations, Charity, Afghanistan
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'Black Hawk Down'
Times Film Critic"Black Hawk Down" is more than simply, as the opening title says, "Based on an Actual Event." As much as a movie ever has, it puts you completely inside that event, brilliantly taking you where most people, even those who were actually there, wouldn't...Tags: Disasters and Accidents, Wars and Interventions, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Somalia, U.S. Military
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Trading tomorrow to eat today
Times Staff WriterFINCHAWA, Ethiopia -- Machete in hand, Batire Baramo steps out of her mud hut before dinnertime and begins whacking at the base of a struggling young tree. A cornfield lies nearby, every stalk stunted and barren. A coffee bush wilts in a patch of earth...Tags: Disasters and Accidents, Africa, Family, United Nations, Charity
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One Man's Hero
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday September 24, 1999 "One Man's Hero" is a deeply felt and engrossing period epic that not only presents the Mexican War of 1846-1848, in which Mexico lost more than half its territory to the U.S., from the losers' point of view, but also...Tags: Disasters and Accidents, Tom Berenger, Mark Moses, Movies, Joaquim de Almeida
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Obstacles slow relief to Afghans
New York Times News ServiceWhen allied forces routed the Taliban from Kabul and most of northern Afghanistan, international aid organizations predicted the roads would soon be filled with truck convoys bearing food and supplies to the millions thought to be at risk of starvation....Tags: Disasters and Accidents, Relief and Aid Organizations, Afghanistan, Foreign Aid, The New York Times
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Young laborers toil in Pakistan to help families
Tribune foreign correspondentBehind the high walls and padlocked iron gates of the AsiaTic carpet-weaving factory live 800 Afghan children whose miserable existence as bonded laborers is a piece of Afghanistan's present plight. Inside the compound skinny, round-eyed boys tie...Tags: Building Material, Disasters and Accidents, Family, Unemployment, Afghanistan
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Kim Jong Il profile
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterSEOUL -- The birth of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il was heralded by a double rainbow, a bright star and a swallow predicting that the newborn would become a great general and rule the world, according to his official biography. With a fairy-tale resume...Tags: Cults and Sects, Disasters and Accidents, CNN (tv network), Kidnapping, Crime, Law and Justice
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Retracing a tragic course
Tribune arts criticGerald McDonald barely slept the night before he went to Poland for the first and probably last time. He already was weak and sick from his journey to Prague, where he had gone to see the artworks that belonged to his great-great-uncle, Emil Freund,...Tags: Disasters and Accidents, Religious Conflicts, Prague (Czech Republic), Tuberculosis, Diseases and Illnesses
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