Tsunami Survivors Mob U.S. Aid Copters
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Desperate, homeless villagers on the tsunami-ravaged island of Sumatra mobbed American helicopters carrying aid Saturday as the U.S. military launched its largest operation in the region since the Vietnam War, ferrying food and other emergency relief to survivors across the disaster zone.
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Aid began trickling through to survivors across the earthquake and tsunami-battered Indian Ocean Friday, but tons of emergency supplies continued to pile up at some overstretched airports.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - A helicopter crash and a  powerful tremor in Indonesia Monday briefly hindered aid  operations for tsunami victims.
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A Virginia-based missionary group said this week that it has airlifted 300 "tsunami orphans" from the Muslim province of Banda Aceh to Jakarta, the Indonesian capital, where it plans to raise them in a Christian children's home.
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Rescue workers raced to get food and water to millions of tsunami survivors on Tuesday, and struggled to clear airport runways to fly aid into regions where giant waves washed roads away as well as people.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Relief workers used  everything from helicopters to elephants to reach survivors and  shift the rubble of wrecked towns eight days after giant waves  struck Asia, triggering one of the biggest aid efforts in  history.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - An army of aid workers  raced on Tuesday to supply food and water to millions of  tsunami victims, and salvage crews unblocked the runway at an  Indonesian airport serving as a key hub for relief shipments.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - U.S. Navy helicopters,  unable to land in flooded, tsunami-ravaged Indonesian villages,  dropped aid on Sunday to desperate crowds clamoring for the  life-saving parcels.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Relief workers flew  helicopters and cajoled elephants to find and feed survivors  and shift the rubble of razed towns Monday, eight days after  tsunamis changed the map of Asia.
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Aid trucks loaded with food, medicines and body bags rolled into tsunami-hit areas across Asia and aircraft dropped supplies to cut-off villages as a $500 million relief operation finally swung into gear on Friday.
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The world has pledged about $220 million to help tsunami survivors, relying on lessons from past disasters to expedite relief. WASHINGTON - Aid workers in airplanes dropped thousands of packets of noodles to Indonesians stranded in cliff-top villages.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia, Jan. 10 -- A U.S. helicopter on a relief operation crashed in a rice paddy near Banda Aceh's airport Monday, injuring at least two of the 10 Navy personnel aboard and causing the military to briefly suspend flights, while strong aftershocks and security concerns provided more challenges for aid workers two weeks after the disaster hit.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - A legion of ships and  planes delivered aid to millions of Asian tsunami survivors on  Saturday as New Year revellers around the world paused to mourn  victims of one of the worst disasters in living memory.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (CP) - As the world scrambled to the rescue, survivors fought over packs of noodles in quake-stricken Indonesian streets Wednesday while relief supplies piled up at the airport for lack of cars, gas or passable roads to move them.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - U.S. helicopter aid  flights in Indonesia's tsunami-hit Aceh province have resumed  after briefly stopping because of the crash of a military  helicopter on Monday, a U.S. navy officer said.
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Aid has begun trickling through to survivors across the earthquake and tsunami-battered Indian Ocean, but tons of emergency supplies continued to pile up at some overstretched airports as the death toll continued its inexorable rise.
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U.S. aid helicopters stepped up missions on Tuesday to Indonesia's tsunami-hit Aceh province, expanding help to millions affected by the giant wave that killed 175,000 around the Indian Ocean.