Word: reliefs
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...delivery mission to the Irrawaddy Delta, which was devastated last month by a cyclone that left 134,000 people dead or missing. Before the police took him away, Maung Thura told foreign media outlets that many of the places he visited in the delta had not received any relief supplies from the country's governing junta. He also poked fun at an article in the government mouthpiece, the New Light of Myanmar, which criticized the international community for sending unneeded chocolate bars to victims of Cyclone Nargis. The comedian's outspokenness did not amuse the junta, which dispatched 10 security...
Burma's military leaders have deemed the relief and rehabilitation stage of the post-Nargis clean-up "successfully carried out." But the United Nations estimates that roughly half of the storm's victims have still not seen any form of aid more than four weeks after the cyclone. A pledge last month by junta leader Than Shwe to U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon that the government would no longer impede foreign relief work has still not been fully met. After nearly a month vainly awaiting permission from the junta to deliver relief supplies, four U.S. Navy ships on June...
Incensed by government inaction, many Burmese have personally delivered bags of rice and drinking water to Nargis refugees. The country's top brass have not taken kindly to such private largesse, setting up roadblocks to deter relief convoys and hassling some monks who hand out mosquito nets or scoops of rice. An aid effort spearheaded by a comedian who made government misrule his fodder was bound to irk the junta...
...nation struggles to cope with $4-a-gal. gas, what are we to make of Rainwater's decision? Is it a sign that the near doubling of oil prices over the past eight months is about to reverse itself? Does it mean we can all breathe big sighs of relief and go back to gassing up our Hummers with abandon...
...about eons. "Generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment ... when the rise of the oceans began to slow, and our planet began to heal," he said. When he was done, voters on all sides could sigh in relief, if only because at least the first heat of this amazing race is finally over...