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US sends mixed signals on accepting aid from abroad
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| Contributor | Servo |
| Last Edited | Servo Sep 03, 2005 12:15am |
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| Category | News |
| Media | Newspaper - Boston Globe |
| News Date | Saturday, September 3, 2005 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The offers of foreign aid keep pouring in: helicopters from Canada, cash from Japan, tents and military aircraft from France -- even oil from Venezuela, a political foe. At least 25 countries have offered humanitarian assistance to the United States to recover from Hurricane Katrina, one of the worst natural disasters in US history.
But despite the increasingly desperate situation on the ground, the Bush administration has sent mixed signals about whether it will take these global well-wishers up on their offers.
President Bush indicated yesterday morning that the United States had not requested foreign help and didn't need it. |
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