Us Doubles Aid After 'Stingy' West Is Attacked

Evening Standard - London › December 29, 2004

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A ROW over the "stingy" response of rich nations to the tsunami disaster broke out today as the United States was forced to double its aid effort.

Tory MPs described Britain's Pounds 1million pledge as "peanuts", and US secretary of state Colin Powell hit back after a United Nations chief attacked "stingy" rich countries.

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Us Doubles Aid After 'Stingy' West Is Attacked

Jan Egeland, the UN's aid co-ordinator, sai...

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