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...still darkness outside the compound, a handful of women and children shelter for the night beneath a stunted shade tree. They will be the first in line tomorrow. Others have made their way back to roofless, unkempt huts, abandoned during the fighting here, to wait out the long hours until another feeding day begins. Says UNICEF's Dr. Yeron: "I have been in the refugee camps during the Ethiopian famine, and I have never seen such a catastrophe as we have in Somalia." Still, he says, since dry rations became available here two weeks ago, the situation has improved. "Last...
Volunteers are directing traffic. Singer Gloria Estefan hosted a benefit concert. Victims of hurricane Hugo, which hit South Carolina in 1989, were among the first to bring supplies. The Red Cross and the army have built tent cities to provide shelter and food for all those left homeless. Everyone is pitching in. Everyone is trying to survive...
Animals need old growth forests for shelter and protection. They need the ground cover that has been there for decades, able to nurture the small plants and animals that support the fragile ecosystem. Animals need a continuous stand of older growth, as survival among smaller trees with limited forage is unsustainable...
...everyone is thrilled with the Army's increasing involvement. "There are legitimate worries about military intervention in domestic affairs," says Ralph Lewis, disaster-response expert at Florida International University. At one shelter in predominantly black Richmond Heights, the soldiers seemed more interested in raising the flag while exhausted Red Cross volunteers struggled to feed 6,000 people a day. "I'm trying to use the military as much, but they like to do things their own way," sighed music teacher Thomas Moore, 29, the Red Cross volunteer in charge of the shelter. "It's true the Red Cross is disorganized...
...homeless persons who are expected to occupy five tent cities, possibly until Christmas and beyond. "No drinking, no drugs and no profanity," new arrivals were told. With area residents reluctant to leave their gutted homes, only a few hundred had taken up the Army's offer of shelter by week...