Posted AT 11:47 AM EDT on 07/09/05
Washington slow to accept aid offers
Sydney, Australia — Many of the nations offering aid to the United States after hurricane Katrina – including India, South Korea, Japan and Germany – said Wednesday that they are still waiting to hear back from Washington on whether their donations had been accepted.
India, which regularly suffers flooding unleashed by monsoon rains, has a planeload of supplies waiting but nowhere to send it.
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