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Show Aid Continued from Al a day. A delegation of American congressmen visited Banda Aceh on Saturday. They arrived on a U.S. military helicopter so as not to take up a landing strip slot. Tim Gerhardson, a spokesman for the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta, said PoweU's plane took off again after dropping him off Wednesday so it wouldn't be in the way. The secretary of state toured the area by helicopter and Gerhardson said aid ship what's important." A diplomat from an Asian country with a military relief mission in Aceh called it "a difficult situation." "VIPs come in and see the destruction for themselves and then aid follows," said the diplomat, who asked that he and his country not be identified. Pierre King, of the International Organization of Migration aid group, said there was no way around the problem. "It's horrible, but what can we do?" he asked, noting that the airport closures had not affected his group, an organization of 104 countries helping to team of military doctors and civilian engineers was scheduled to arrive Dec. 31 but had to be rerouted to the east Sumatran city of Medan . because the Banda Aceh airstrip was unavailable. From Medan, they hired trucks to make the drive, but as they neared the provincial capital the Indonesian army refused to let them through and they returned to Medan. "In Medan we were hearing that Colin Powell was there and that's why we couldn't get here," said Khan, drinking tea near the airport's tarmac. "At least we're here now, that's ments continued to flow during that time. "I did not notice any stoppage," he said. Michael Elmquist, the U.N. official in charge of operations in Sumatra, did not answer a call seeking comment on Annan's visit Friday.. Maj. Gea Bambang Indonesia's military commander for Aceh, said there was "no policy" on closing the airport completely but standard security procedures required that flights be "reorganized" around the visits of dignitaries. Pakistan's aid mission was one of several delayed. The er Dar-mon- o, deliver food and treat the injured. "I had my stock already, thank God, so I didn't stop working." The International Organization of Migration said it was organizing the first truck convoy to carry supplies to the stricken region from Jakarta 930 on Monday bemiles away cause the airport is so busy . Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi have also been among the visitors to Aceh, on the western tip of the island of Sumatra. On Friday Singapore flew a mobile airtraffic " control tower to the airport to replace damaged equipment. The mobile unit, delivered by a military transport plane, reportedly came with an independent power generator, hydraulic lifts to raise it 15 feet, and a cabin that can hold six people. Not all dignitaries have' disrupted deliveries. Britain's chief of international development, Hilary Benn, said he flew into Aceh on a cargo plane carrying aid. While much of Banda Aceh looks like a huge scrap pile and still reeks of rotting flesh, there were some signs of normal life on Saturday. Women haggled over the price of bananas, chickens and goats at a bustling ! - 4 Tk mui iiei. Diu uci s sci and old men sipped coffee in . outdoor cafes. Meanwhile, rescue workers pulled thousands more rotting corpses from the mud and debris of flattened towns along the Sumatran coast Saturday, two weeks after surging walls of water caused unprecedented destruction on the shores of the Indian Ocean. The death toll in 11 countries passed 150,000. Hungry people with haunted expressions were still emerging from isolated villages on Sumatra island. Staggered by the scale of the disaster, aid officials announced plans to feed as many as 2 million survivors each day for the next six months, focusing particularly on young children, pregnant women and nursing mothers. World Food Program Executive Director James Morris said at a Jakarta news conference that the operation likely would cost $180 million. "Many of the places where we work are remote, detached and their infrastructure has been dramatically mised," Morris said, a day after he visited Aceh with U.N. Secre- we ivon Annan, ttlTf. will be attributing food ... by trucks, by barges, by ships, by helicopters, by big planes." He said the agency has now dispatched enough food in Sri Lanka to help feed 750,000 people there for 15 days. WFP counJeff Taft-Dictry director in Sri Lanka, said that was a critical milestone "because there is now enough food around the country to feed everyone who needs it." Morris said the agency was reeaing iou.uwu people in Indonesia and expected that to crease to 400,000 within a week and possibly reach as high as a million eventually. A c fvun Tnrinnacisin nnw am. Vhibious vessels zoomed ashore in Calang, hundreds of refugees lined up amid the wreckage of boats to unload supplies. Eighty percent of Calang residents were killed in the giant waves. The Indonesian military set up two field hospitals, one with 50 beds, the other with 20. "The tragedy was terrible, but considering this, the survivors here now are in pretty good shape," said Dr. Steve . Wignall, an American who works for Family Health International and was making an assessment with several other aid workers. In other areas, victims were more vulnerable, though health officials said there were no signs yet of feared epidemics of disease. President Bush, in his weekly radio address, said the United oicuea was iiuuuiig iuuu, uicui- cine, and other vital supplies to the region. We are focusing ef- forts on helping the women and children who need special attention, including protection from the evil of human trafficking." Indonesia, which has a reputation as a base for child trafficking gangs, said Saturday it was monitoring its borders to prevent such smuggling. As aid poured into a region long irouDiea oy separatist violence, Indonesian soldiers resumed patrols in Aceh province to search for rebels. International aid groups worried that renewed conflict could hamper their work. 1 r srt- ' jmJ - 1 1 TT-- A xary-oener- lIsIS I I. k, lytpr ni f 0nly ft" I AudiovoxCDM-891- 0 I K II New fj Shipping charges may apply. agreement required. SS" 'fiSTTnCl ;: 7 VRpSt t" New Samsung agreement required. 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