U.S. Plane Arrives With Typhoon Aid
A U.S. Air Force transport plane landed in Ho Chi Minh City, formerly Saigon, with more than $460,000 in food, medicine and other aid for typhoon victims. The supplies were part of more than $600,000 in aid to the nation--the first major U.S. donation to its former enemy since the Vietnam War ended in 1975. Tens of thousands of families remain homeless since Typhoon Linda slammed the southernmost Ca Mau and Kien Giang provinces earlier this month. The typhoon killed at least 435 people, and several thousand others are missing. The storm caused more than $450 million in damage.
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