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  • Haiti quake - Survivors struggle while awaiting aid

    MIKE MELIA Associated Press Writer PORT-AU-PRINCE Haiti

    The world struggled to rush help to Haiti this morning, fighting bottlenecks to get aid and order to desperate people scrambling to save the trapped and injured on their own, with little help from a government devastated by the earthquake. President Barack Obama announced that "one of the largest relief efforts in our recent history" is moving toward Haiti, with thousands of troops and a broad array of civilian rescue workers flying or sailing in to aid the stricken country — backed by more than $100 million in relief f...

  • Haiti quake - Survivors struggle while awaiting aid

    MIKE MELIA Associated Press Writer PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti

    The world struggled to rush help to Haiti this morning, fighting bottlenecks to get aid and order to desperate people scrambling to save the trapped and injured on their own, with little help from a government devastated by the earthquake. President Barack Obama announced that "one of the largest relief efforts in our recent history" is moving toward Haiti, with thousands of troops and a broad array of civilian rescue workers flying or sailing in to aid the stricken country — backed by more than $100 million in relief f...