Haitians Pray

Cry for Help | theledger.com | The Ledger | Lakeland, FL:

"The Geneva-based aid group Doctors Without Borders put it bluntly: "There is little sign of significant aid distribution."The 'major difficulty,' it said, was the bottleneck at the airport, under U.S. military control. It said a flight carrying its own inflatable hospital was denied landing clearance and was being trucked overland from Santo Domingo, almost 200 miles away in the Dominican Republic, delaying its arrival by 24 hours.

French, Brazilian and other officials had earlier complained about the U.S.-run airport's refusal to allow their supply planes to land. A World Food Program official told The New York Times that the Americans' priorities were out of sync, allowing too many U.S. military flights and too few aid deliveries."

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