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Henry, a thickset man of 68, has been head of the state chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People since the civil rights movement was at its peak. Mississippi's Delta was one of its deadliest battlegrounds, a crescent of tormented land between Memphis and Vicksburg, hemmed by the Mississippi and Yazoo rivers, the poorest and blackest part of this country. A generation ago, some of the most oppressed blacks in the most harshly segregated state in the U.S. rose to claim their share of America's dream, and some whites did their violent worst...
Children are faring the worst. According to the Iraqi Red Crescent, 80% of all deaths since the cease-fire have been youngsters. A Harvard medical team that visited Iraq in late April estimated that 170,000 children will die of gastrointestinal disease complicated by malnutrition as a result of the war. Allied bombing of power stations caused the breakdown of the water- purification system...
...intact before relief workers could distribute them fairly. Last week fresh supplies arrived by boat. Still, allowing just 9 oz. of rice and a packet of crackers for each person, the ! supplies are enough for only half the families. "I am going mad," says Jasimuddin Chowdhury, the local Red Crescent representative...
...well is to walk there, and that can take two hours. Relief workers are providing single women and babies with water, but have told those families with male members to fetch it themselves. Contaminated water has already sickened more than 300 children with diarrhea. A Red Crescent doctor treated the youngsters for three days. Then he ran out of medicine and left...
...stop Washington from dispatching planeloads of humanitarian aid to the borders. The U.S. surely had stockpiles of food, tents and medicine at hand in southern Iraq, not to mention plenty of transport. In January it gave a drop-in-the-ocean $1 million to the Red Cross and Red Crescent to study setting up refugee camps in southern Iraq when U.S. forces leave. That was about...