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...salves. That mood may not last. In the 1950s and '60s, the Federal Civil Defense Administration--remember duck and cover?--distributed 400 million pieces of literature to Americans. But civil defense never really caught on. By 1963, only 1 person in 50 had access to even a rudimentary shelter...
Among those leading the way in speed and creativity is the Red Cross. Besides providing food and shelter, the group has earmarked $100 million in cash grants for victims' families to cover living expenses for three months. The grants were suggested by bond-trading firm Cantor Fitzgerald, which lost some 730 employees when the Twin Towers collapsed. By Friday the Red Cross had given nearly $4 million to an initial group of 214 families, who got as much as $30,000 each. Families submit a one-page application, and the Red Cross checks employment and travel records to confirm that...
...spartan camps just inside the frontier. Providing for them will be a formidable challenge. Already, officials from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) are scouting out locations within the tribal belt bordering Afghanistan. Pakistan's government estimates a need for about 100 new camps, each able to shelter 10,000 people. "Water is scarce," says UNHCR's spokesman Rupert Colville in Quetta, "There has been a drought for three years." Relief officials say as many as 10,000 Afghans may have already slipped into Pakistan in recent days and are being sheltered by fellow clansmen, invisible inside...
Governments, unlike terrorists, respond to incentives and balk at threats. Henry A. Kissinger ’50 wrote on Sept. 12 that “any government that shelters groups capable of this kind of attack, whether or not they can be shown to have been involved in this attack, must pay an exorbitant price.” It is very simple. Every regime has a vested interest in its own survival. When America and her allies demonstrate that the Taliban’s tolerance for terror is incompatible with self-preservation, people like Osama bin Laden will become international...
...passengers were Israeli. The crew of a nearby Armenian Airlines plane reported seeing an explosion aboard the doomed plane, before it spun down into the sea. And Russian and Ukrainian media have been reporting for some time that ethnic Tatar villages in the Crimea had been giving shelter to rebel fighters from Chechnya, and that some Tatar Islamists had even volunteered to fight in Chechnya. Russia's President Vladimir Putin immediately expressed suspicions of terrorism...