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...entries came in from Maine and Montana, Bangladesh and Britain, Italy and Iran, South Africa and Saudi Arabia and Yugoslavia. There were big planes folded from 3-ft. sheets of heavy poster paper and little ones from bits of waxy British toilet tissue. One anxious aeronautics engineer flew in from Kansas to hand-deliver his delicate creations, while another tucked his into a cereal box insulated by stale flakes of Corn Total. A third, with touching trust in the U.S. Postal Service, simply scrawled the contest address across the wings of his plane and plastered a stamp onto its nose...
...government was reportedly able to mobilize only five naval vessels to carry food, water and clothes to the stranded. By the time the ships had reached their destinations, having plowed through rain and still heavy seas, many more of the afflicted had died. A few air force helicopters -- Bangladesh has all of 15 -- dropped off water and food. But demand far exceeded supply...
...full scope of the tragedy sank in, the people of Bangladesh rallied to recover. In the commercial areas of Dhaka and in other towns and cities spared by the storm, students energetically collected money for the homeless, while devout citizens offered gaibana janaza, or prayers for the unburied dead. Government employees contributed a day's pay to help the destitute, and banks and private companies pitched in with relief efforts of their...
Last week revived West's scene. Suddenly, there were two freakish disasters overseas, connected at first only by the fact that death was involved in each: thousands killed in a cyclone in Bangladesh, 38 by a flood of Liverpool fans at a soccer match in Belgium. It was not the casualty count alone that was stunning nor even, in the case of the soccer match, the display of what amounted to mass murder in the context of a game. What the world saw in Bangladesh and Belgium was nature out of control -- external nature in one place, human nature...
...said Bacon, "and yet revive upon the occasion or temptation." Evidently, though, nature is more palatable to the conscience in the form of a cyclone than dressed as human savagery. Better to suffer the weather than to be the weather. Yet the mystery is the same. The people of Bangladesh will puzzle over a universe that periodically marks them for annihilation, but perhaps they will puzzle no less than the fellow from Liverpool who, sober, asks simply, "What got into me?" The abiding fear for everyone is that nothing got in that was not already there, that people are brimming...