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The New York Times > International > International Special > Relief: Even at Charity Used to Aiding, It's a Scramble: "Even at Charity Used to Aiding, It's a Scramble
By ERIC LIPTON

Published: December 31, 2004


ALTIMORE, Dec. 30 - At the headquarters of Catholic Relief Services here, the situation reports keep coming in: shelters housing 125,000 people have opened in India. Sri Lanka is getting $1 million worth of cooking kits, fuel cans and soap. In Indonesia, the first supplies should reach the battered coast by the weekend"