[lit-ideas] Ingratitude? Never A Bad Time To Show It
- From: "M.A. Camp" <macampesq@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 15:35:21 -0500
West's response condemned as slow and inadequate
Independent Online
^<http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/article318644.ece>|
10-11-05 | Elizabeth Davies and Jan McGirk
Excerpt:
Western governments rushed to step up their pledges for the earthquake
relief effort after their initial response to the disaster was condemned as
slow-moving and financially inadequate.
The United States, which was under pressure to increase a pledge of $500,000
(£280,000) considered almost derisory by many Pakistanis when it was made
over the weekend, announced it intended to give $50m in emergency aid.
The gesture, intended to make up for the resentment caused by an initial
pledge which, along with the British offering of £100,000, was labelled as
"peanuts" by Qazi Hussain, the leader of the Pakistani opposition party
Jamat Islami, was greeted as a major boost to the struggling relief effort.
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Cheers,
M.A. Camp, Esq.
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