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Show DAILY A6 Tsunami " mon in Bangkok. were sftit by Other Australia and New Zealand, and the Indonesian government said two flights from 8 countries had reached Sumatra by Friday But bureaucratic delays, needed. impassable roads and long distances were blocking much An American military cargo of the blankets, bottled water, medicine blankets, jet brought and the first of 80,000 body plastic sheeting and medbines devas-tate- d from reaching the needy. bags to Banda Aceh, the Indonesian city near the Convoys distributed sugar, rice and lentils in Sri Lanka; Inquake epicenter. dia dispatched a ship converted Nine U.S military hospital. transports took off Friday from into a d In the Andaman islands, a ,. Utapao, the Thai base used by remote southern Indian archiU.S. 2 bombers during the Vietnam War, to rush supplies pelago, officials and volunteers to the stricken resorts of southstruggled to deliver tons of ern Thailand, Indonesia and Sri rations, clothes, bedsheets, oil, and other items, hampered by Lanka, said Maj. Larry J. Red- - the emergency, Secretary of State Cohn Powell discussed relief efforts at a U.N. meeting Kofi with Secretary-Genera- l Annan Friday, before leaving for a weekend visit to the region to assess what more is Continued from A 1 "The vast majority of those are in Indonesia," he said Friday, adding that the final death toll would probably never be known. President Bush, his adminis- - tration stung by criticism that its aid pledges were small and slow to materialize, raised the U.S. pledge from $35 million to $350 million. "Our contributions will continueo be revised as the full effects of this terrible tragedy become clearer," he said. France has promised $57 million, Britain $95 million, Sweden $75.5 million. Emphasizing the U.S. role in HERALD lack of transportation. "There is starvation. People haven't had food or water for at least five days. There are carcasses. There will be an epidemic," said Andaman's member of Parliament, Manoranjan -- Bhakta. At popular Phuket resort in Thailand, people pored over photos of the dead and missing. "At this point we hope against hope that they are still alive 0 50-be- " 1, Saturday. January somewhere," said Canadian tourist Dan Kwan, hunting for, his missing parents. He said it was possible they were unconscious or unable to speak. Forensic teams in Thailand packed bodies in dry ice as the government announced its death toll had doubled to more than 4,500 people, almost half of them vacationing foreigners. In Sri Lanka, where more than 4,000 people were unaccounted for, TV channels devoted 10 minutes of every hour to reading the names and details of the missing. A dozen U.S. Navy vessels including the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln headed for the Indonesian and Sri Lankan coasts, some 2,000 miles apart, carrying supplies, medical teams and more than 40 helicopters to distribute them. But the aid was stacking up. In an airport hangar in Medan, 280 miles south of Banda Aceh, thousands of boxes of basics such as drinking water, crackers, blankets had accumulated 2005 since Monday and were going nowhere. "Hundreds of tons, it keeps coming in," said Rizal Nordin, governor of Northern Sumatra province. He blamed the backlog on an initial "lack of coordination" that was slowly improving. The United States, India, Australia, Japan and the United Nations have formed an international coalition to coordinate ' worldwide relief and recon- struction efforts. The Indian navy, which has ; already deployed 32 ships and 1 29 aircraft for tsunami relief and rescue work, was sending two more ships Friday to Indonesia. Bush said disaster response officials are in the region and ,. Uhe United btates nas estab lished a support center in Thailand. More than 20 patrol and cargo aircraft have been made available to assess the disaster and deliver relief supplies, he said. The president said the United States has dispatched the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, a maritime squadron from Guam and an amphibious ship carrying a Marine expeditionary unit. "They will soon be in position to support relief efforts to include the generation of clean water," he said. A congressional delegation headed by Rep. Jim Leach, a former U.S. foreign service officer, is scheduled to visit Thailand and Sri Lanka next week. Senate Majority Leader, Bill Frist, who often travels to blighted areas, said Friday that he will visit Sri Lanka and India next week. The U:S. death toll has risen to 15, with eight dead in Thai- land and seven in Sri Lanka. State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said some 600 Americans who were listed as missing have been found, but several thousand had still not been located. Western health officials, inteam of U.S. cluding a Army, Marine Corps, Air Force and Navy personnel, headed to devastated areas across Sri Lanka on Friday after officials ' warned about possible disease outbreaks among the 1 million people seeking shelter in crowded camps. "Our biggest battle and fear now is to prevent an .epidemic from breaking out," said Health Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva. "Clean water and sanitation is our main concern." Ade Bachtiar, a volunteer nurse from Jakarta, arrived in Banda Aceh on Wednesday to help at a clinic set up in an abandoned souvenir shop. "Yesterday, we could only stay open for about two hours due to the lack of electricity," he said. Nevertheless, he added, they treated 60 to 80 people, mainly closing and cleaning wounds . "Medicine is running out, especially antiseptics," he said. 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"Certainly it's not a perfect no operation at operation five days is perfect, but things are gathering pace: We're identifying what the problems are," a United said Oliver Lacey-HalNations disaster assistance of- From Pendleton, Emma James and Judith Hart. & Scarves l, ficial in Indonesia. mm ENTIRE STOCK ENTIRE STOCK MEN'S & JUNIORS' ENTIRE STOCK OF OF MEN'S, LADIES' OF LADIES' Selected Famous MEN'S, LADIES' & KIDS' Suits Activewear .From Kasper, Stresa, Tahari and more & KIDS' Denim From Nike, Adidas and more. Fleece Separates Aid was beginning to pile up at the airport in Medan, where a cavernous airplane hangar on the military side of the airfield was quickly filling with a mountain of donated goods, including water, food, disposable gloves and boxes of used clothing destined for Banda Aceh, at the center of the disaster on the northern tip of Sumatra. The supplies were starting to go out on a significant number of aid trucks and into the belHercules cargo jets lies of four or five pallets at a time, but there were complaints about the "funnel effect," in which deliveries always go into the relief pipeline faster than they come said. out, Lacey-HaThe process of deliverinf aid was hampered by the devastation caused by the tsunami. Lt. Col. Andrew Wilcox, part of the U.S. Marines' assessment team that came to Indonesia from its base in Okinawa, had two men on the ground in the north with a Singaporean mil- 3? itary team and discovered that clearing roads isn't half the problem of getting truck deliveries going. "You have mudflats that weren't there before," Wilcox said. "It's not clearing the roads it's rebuilding them." He predicted it would take weeks, or months, to what even before the tsunami was a poor highway system. ENTIRE STOCK OF Luggage Excludes Hartmann. . ll lITLUS, AVt5 Tronn In Provp, it Provo Towne j ) VU J VI V i? 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