U.S. to Double Helicopters in Tsunami Relief to 90
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The U.S. military plans to double to  about 90 the number of helicopters being provided for the  disaster relief effort for Asia's tsunami victims, the head of  U.S. Pacific Command said on Tuesday.
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The American military relief operation picked up steam Monday, with U.S. helicopters dropping off cartons of food aid in Sumatra and warships with 2,200 Marines arriving in the Malacca Straits to ferry supplies to the tsunami-battered Indonesian island.
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U.S. helicopters rescued dozens of desperate and weak tsunami survivors, including a young girl clutching a stuffed Snoopy dog, as the American military relief operation reached out to remote areas of Indonesia with cartons of food and water on Monday.
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With a combined age of 72, the Hercules transport plane and the Seahawk helicopter don't have the sleek, space-age lines of their newer, higher-tech brethren. But these veterans are the stars of the aerial relief operation in Indonesia.
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The United States is set to offer  "all appropriate assistance" to Asian countries hit on Sunday  by a powerful earthquake and the giant waves it generated, a  White House spokesman said.
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The United States will expand its  tsunami warning system in the Pacific Ocean and go beyond to  include the Atlantic, the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico, the  White House said on Friday.
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WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration will seek $950 million in federal aid for the areas affected by the Asian tsunami, nearly tripling a previous commitment of $350 million that was announced when the administration was under fire for what critics called a sluggish response to the crisis.
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The death toll of Americans from the tsunami more than doubled Wednesday, to 36, as the State Department announced 20 other U.S. citizens were presumed dead. Thousands more are missing.
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The United States will help the millions devastated by the Indian Ocean tsunami, but an effort on the scale of the post-World War II Marshall Plan is probably not needed, Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Tuesday.
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WASHINGTON: Private groups and individuals across America continue to make generous contributions to the massive relief effort now underway internationally to help the victims of the deadly tsunami that hit 11 countries, causing widespread devastation
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US President George W Bush seeks to boost US aid to the tsunami-hit nations to a total of $950m (Â£511m).
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The U.S. military plans to double to  about 90 the number of helicopters in the relief effort for  Asia's tsunami victims and offered to send portable field  hospitals to the region, officials said on Tuesday.
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LONDON -- The US government is contributing $35 million of the half-billion dollars that the world's developed nations are donating to the tsunami relief effort, and many Americans believe -- as President Bush put it earlier this week -- that their country is being its typical ''generous, kindhearted" self.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - U.S. helicopters shuttled  injured refugees, many of them children, out of some of the  worst hit parts of tsunami-devastated Aceh province, even as  reports surfaced of trafficking in orphans from the disaster.
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WASHINGTON -- The United States dispatched disaster specialists and pledged an initial $15 million Monday to Asian countries struck by a massive earthquake and tsunamis.
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ABOARD THE USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN -- Helicopters from this US Navy aircraft carrier flew repeated relief missions along the nearby shoreline of Indonesia yesterday, delivering food, water, and medical supplies to thousands of survivors stranded along the western coast of Aceh Province after last week's devastating tsunamis.
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The number of Americans known to  have been killed in last month's tsunami in Asia has more than  doubled to at least 36, a State Department official said on  Wednesday.