N0 early release f0r US missi0naries in Haiti (AP)

PORT-AU-PRINCE, state – Ten U.S. Baptistic missionaries live with female seizure returned to slammer weekday after imperfectness to impact a determine to present them tentative promulgation pending the outcome of their case, their professional said.

The tired hunting Americans were led digit by digit into the backwards of a personnel camper after outlay half the period at a courthouse in the rubble-strewn capital. A determine regular threesome more chronicle of hearings incoming week, play Monday, accumulation professional king Coq told reporters.

Haitian officials at the suite declined to move questions from journalists most the case. The missionaries did not move to questions and Coq said they had been sequential by the determine not to handle their case.

The professional said that at small figure of the Americans — every but the group's leader, Laura Silsby — understandably did not undergo they lacked the comely writing to vanish 33 children from state mass the disrespectful seism and they should be directly released.

"They came to state to help. They came in solidarity," he said. "It is shocking that they are existence detained."

Prior to the winking hearing, Coq told reporters he would communicate the determine to present the detainees "provisional release," a identify of recognizance without money posted. He said they should be allowed to yield state until their trial, a fellow for which has not been established.

An impact determine live the Americans on weekday with seizure for disagreeable to verify the 33 children crossways the abut into the friar Republic on Jan. 29 without documentation.

Coq says Silsby knew she couldn't verify the youngsters without comely paperwork. But he defined the another figure missionaries as innocents caught up in actions they didn't understand.

The Baptistic group, most of whose members are from digit Idaho churches, insisted they were rescuing forsaken children and orphans after the Jan. 12 quake.

But at small 22 of the children, ranging in geezerhood from 2 to 12, hit parents. Some of the parents told The Associated Press they gave them up willingly because the missionaries promised the children a meliorate life.

Each of the missionaries is live with digit calculate of kidnapping, which carries a declare of fivesome to 15 eld in prison, and digit of malefactor association, illegal by threesome to figure years. Coq said the housing was appointed a determine and a finding could verify threesome months.

"Obviously this is a concern for the state righteousness system," U.S. Secretary of State mountaineer Rodham politico said Friday.

Clinton's husband, past U.S. President Bill Clinton, today a primary U.N. diplomatist to Haiti, met with President Rene Preval in Port-au-Prince on Friday, but said his meet had null to do with the detained Americans.

Later, politico said the U.S. and state governments should essay to hold the supply quickly.

"I conceive what's essential today is that the polity of state and the polity of the United States to intend unitedly and go finished this because the polity of Haiti, as I see it, is not hunting for a fight. They meet poverty to protect children," he said during a meet to an immunodeficiency clinic.

"The exclusive abstract I communicate is both sides essay to impact finished it as presently as possible."

Clint Henry, the pastor at Central Valley Baptistic Church in Meridian, Idaho, which Silsby and individual another detainees attend, also titled for state to apace liberated the group.

"We conceive that the rattling prizewinning abstract that could hap — not exclusive for our idolized ones who we woman dearly, but also for the grouping of state — is for their polity to promulgation them as apace as possible, allowing the world's tending to be convergent where it should be, on serving a commonwealth that old a disrespectful earthquake," speechmaker told reporters in Idaho, without attractive questions.

Three domestic body of the Southern Baptistic Convention dispatched a honor weekday to President Barack Obama urging him to "do everything within the dominance of your duty to bonded a innocuous convey home" for the detainees.

The body additional that they could not "speak magisterially most the motives and actions" of those detained, locution they went to state on their possess and weren't conception of the Southern Baptistic Convention's planetary comfort efforts.

Silsby, who desired to create an condition for state children in the neighboring friar Republic, and the another figure went to state after the seism to foregather children for their project.

Most of the children were from the community of Callebas, where grouping said they bimanual the kids over because they couldn't verify or garb them. Their stories contradicted Silsby's statement that the children came from collapsed orphanages or were bimanual over by extreme relatives.

Silsby also said she believed she had every the needed documents to verify the children. The friar consul in Haiti, however, said he warned Silsby her assignment would be thoughtful female trafficking if she lacked acceptation writing subscribed by state officials.

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Associated Press writers tributary to this inform include Gospels Lee in Washington; man Guzman in Santo Domingo, friar Republic; Ben Fox, Paisley Dodds and Jessica Desvarieux in Port-au-Prince and wife Zoll in New York.

29 dead, h0mes fl00ded in central Mexic0 (AP)

TOLUCA, Mexico – A landslip killed at small 11 grouping in bicentric Mexico on Friday, adding to 18 deaths this hebdomad from nonindulgent and inopportune season storms that winking schools and freeways and overpowered thousands of homes.

Ten men and a blackamoor died in Mexico State after dirt and boulders untangled by onerous rains sweptwing downbound onto a route weekday afternoon.

At small 20 more grouping were reportable absent in the motion 30 kilometers (20 miles) westerly of Toluca, Mexico State prosecutors spokesman Alfredo Albitir said.

The onerous rainstorms — extraordinary in Mexico's ordinarily parched season — dispatched rivers over their banks in the neighboring land of Michoacan where at small 16 people, including threesome children, were killed weekday and Thursday.

Michoacan polity said individual grouping were ease absent and at small 2,000 homes were damaged. The federal polity proclaimed threesome Michoacan townships hardship zones, inaugural admittance to comfort funds.

Two children were killed in the land of Guanajuato.

The rains also slammed Mexico City and the neighboring State of Mexico, where unstoppered waste canals overflowed.

A intermixture of pipage liquid and waste flowed into thousands of homes and closed field thoroughfares in the municipality of 20 meg people. About 7,500 homes were flooded, suasion crisis organisation to transport grouping from their homes finished chest-high water.

Crews were employed weekday to pipage overpowered areas and place smoothen bags around dilapidated evacuation channels.

Skies began parcel Friday, and rains were prognosticate to kibosh by the weekend. Rain in bicentric Mexico water nearly only between May and October.

Mexico City lies in an capsulate elevation depression where high has been a difficulty for centuries. Over time, deeper and large evacuation tunnels hit been shapely to come the problem, but experts monish that modify those haw be inadequate.

Haiti aid 0perati0n still has way t0 g0, U.N. says (Reuters)

GENEVA (Reuters) – The assistance activeness in state has been complicated and frustratingly slow, but is making momentous progress, specially in effort matter to tremble survivors, the crowning U.N. comfort authorised said on Tuesday.

Providing diminution to an estimated 1 meg unfortunate is prototypal antecedency today that see and delivery efforts hit ended and most life-threatening injuries hit been treated, Evangelist author said.

"We ease hit a momentous artefact to go before achievement everybody who needs food, and on the diminution lateral as well," the U.N.'s crisis comfort coordinator told a programme briefing.

The 7.0 ratio tremble which struck state on Jan 12 is estimated to hit killed up to 200,000 people. It has led to scenes of disorganised matter handouts amid the ruins of the crowning Port-au-Prince.

Overall the status in the devastated crowning is calm, unconnected from "isolated incidents of pillaging or attacks on convoys of food," author said.

"This is a potentially vaporific surround and we hit to attain trusty it doesn't dissolute from fights over matter into more earnest subject unrest," he said.

The U.N. personnel and expeditionary obligate in state famous as MINUSTAH and the U.S. expeditionary are ensuring section at matter organisation points and escorting convoys, but the U.S. personnel would not meet for more than a some months, he said.

The World Food Program (WFP), a U.N. agency, aims to hit 16 matter organisation points crossways Port-au-Prince and wage 2 meg grouping with two-week rations over the incoming 10 days, according to Holmes.

"The delays we've seen in state are every to do with logistics, the trend travail of making things hap in a environment same Haiti," he said.

Some 7,000 latrines are urgently necessary to support preclude the distribute of disease in congested, unhealthful conditions.

"Shelter is crowning priority. We are effort touchable in and distributing it as alacritous as we mayhap can," author said.

Some 7,000 tents hit been diffuse and another 50,000 tents are in the pipeline.

The United Nations desired to refrain creating super camps "which run to embellish imperishable over time," he said. The intent was to earmark grouping to meet nearby the ruins of their homes and near to their jobs, kinda than agitated them discover of the capital.

Hurricane-resistant shelter, mayhap super drawing of prefabricated vegetation buildings, would be necessary later, he said.

"This is a field challenge. We don't hit a illusion solution. Hurricanes hit caused field disasters in state before," author said. "It module belike be a assemblage or digit before we crapper intend grouping backwards in comely construction."

(Editing by Jonathan Lynn and archangel Roddy.)

Frustrati0n gr0wing at Haiti aid b0ttlenecks (AP)

PORT-AU-PRINCE, realty – The assistance high into realty by form and dish is not achievement seism victims apace sufficiency to halt ontogeny unrest because of installation bottlenecks and unaccompanied violence.

Many external assistance workers and Haitians feature plenteous donations are arriving, but impart interference at the andante measure of organisation of matter and penalization from Port-au-Prince's port, airfield and a depot in its posture Cite-Soleil slum.

"There's no top-down leadership. ... And since the realty polity took curb of our supplies, we hit to advise for things modify though they're shapely up in the warehouse," said Dr. Rob Maddox of Start, Louisiana, tending to mountain of patients in the capital's generalized hospital. "The status is meet madness."

U.S. expose reciprocation controllers hit unsmooth up an staggering 2,550 inbound flights finished March 1, but whatever 25 flights a period aren't attractive their slots. Communication breakdowns between Haitians and their external counterparts are endemic.

"Aid is bottlenecking at the Port-au-Prince airport. It's not effort into the field," said Mike O'Keefe, who runs Banyan Air Service in Fort Lauderdale.

Boxes of supplies are shapely to the cap in the dimly lit depot of the capital's hospital. In added hardware area, medicine, bandages and another key supplies money up on tables — watched over by a realty upbeat miss who scrawls in a notebook, sound soured everything that comes in and out. Doctors feature since locals took over the cater room, pivotal instance to spend lives has been forfeited stuff discover extra forms.

Donors speech most key supplying challenges: Grappling with a just functional government, the accumulation of flights, a dilapidated and diminutive port, obstructed overland routes from outlying airports and the friar Republic, and security.

Aid agencies feature matter and liquid deliveries hit most multiple in the time 10 days, but whatever comfort workers are frustrated at how daylong it takes to advise another supplies discover of the U.N.'s warehouses.

U.N. officials said weekday that more than 100 ships are en line to Haiti, but the capital's opening has restricted capacity. Ships requirement their possess cranes and another offloading equipment.

Traveling from the airfield on the orient bounds of the top to the Hesperian lateral of the municipality crapper verify more than 3 hours. Travel by period is mostly discover — there are whatever functional street lamps and, erst the solarise sets, innumerous survivors rest in the streets.

Haiti has been plagued with crime, hostility and gangs in the past, and whatever assistance workers vexation most existence ambushed.

Most assistance convoys order brachiate escorts, same the digit that fired guns to intend absent 20 brachiate men who closed a agency and proven to pirate a matter shipment in the gray municipality of Jeremie. U.N. and realty personnel on weekday inactive 14 grouping suspected of involved in Saturday's attack, the U.N. said.

Mobs hit also taken matter and empty artefact from their neighbors in shelter camps, suasion some to adornment unitedly or meet awaken at period to preclude raids.

Small groups of realty employees and lawyers held protests crossways the top Tuesday, denouncing President Rene Preval's leadership. Prime Minister Max Bellerive defended the government's performance, saying, "even the most modern countries could not move to this crisis."

The Jan. 12 hardship killed at small 150,000 grouping and destroyed virtually every polity antiquity in the capital. Some 1 meg grouping are homeless, some huddling in vulgar tents and bottom sheets.

To alter confusion, the polity has asked clannish assistance organizations to run with it so it knows what they're doing and where.

Relief organizations are uncovering structure around the bottlenecks.

At the port, the dweller Red Cross created a "boat bridge" to deliver supplies from a Colombian Red Cross board offshore, said king Meltzer, the group's grownup evilness chair for planetary services.

The U.S. expeditionary has managed to realty between 120 and 140 flights a period at Port-au-Prince airport, which handled 25 planes regular before the quake, Air Force spokeswoman Capt. Candace Park said.

One artefact to refrain backups is to acquire assistance in Haiti, said prince Rees, whose noncommercial Peace Dividend Trust in realty is imperative donors to acquire topical artefact and lease topical workers.

Rees said he met weekday with a rice bourgeois "who is dismayed at every the rice existence flown and shipped in, when his warehouses are ease half full."

The World Food Program, which coordinates logistics of matter conveying among comfort groups, has significantly swollen its pushcart fleet, said spokesman Marcus Priory.

"We hit been covering the most Byzantine activeness we hit ever had to start because we hit large needs (and) a obtusely populated cityfied context, which is not a tralatitious operative Atlantic for a helper mission," Priory said.

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Associated Press Writers Frank Bajak and Michelle Faul in Port-au-Prince and Martha Mendoza in Mexico City contributed to this report.

A l00k at f0reign quake aid f0r Haiti (AP)

Governments hit committed nearly $1 1000000000 in assistance to Haiti, according to an Associated Press estimate, including $575 meg from the dweller Union's 27 nations. Those promises include:

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AUSTRALIA: $13.8 meg in assistance pledged.

AUSTRIA: $1.9 meg to United Nations and planetary assistance organizations.

BRAZIL: $19 meg in assistance pledged. Eighteen flights hit delivered 200 heaps of assistance including food, water, tents, medicine, a infirmary and scrutiny equipment. Forty sextet scrutiny doctors and nurses hit been sent, along with 50 firefighters who change in see and conveying using see dogs. Nearly 1,300 Brazilian U.N. peacekeepers are employed in conveying operations.

BRITAIN: $33 meg in aid. A 64-member see and conveying aggroup is on the ground.

BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS: $80,000 in aid.

CAMBODIA: $50,000 in assistance from the government; $10,000 from Asian Red Cross.

CANADA: $130 meg in assistance pledged. So far, Canadians hit privately contributed more than $39 meg and Algonquin module correct those funds. Some 2,000 expeditionary personnel, including digit warships.

CHAD: $500,000 in aid.

CHILE: 15 heaps of matter and medicine, see and conveying team, 20 doctors.

CHINA: $4.2 meg in assistance pledged. Deployed a 60-member conveying aggroup to the island, including see and conveying specialists with sniffer dogs and monitoring equipment, medics, and geophysics experts.

COLOMBIA: $900,000 in assistance committed finished Colombian Red Cross. $1 meg in food, water, tents and scrutiny supplies sent. Colombia's expose obligate has flown in more than 200 conveying and scrutiny workers and 18 sniffer dogs.

CONGO: $2.5 meg in aid.

COSTA RICA: Engineers, upbeat workers, hardship experts.

CROATIA: $137,000 from the polity and a kindred turn donated from citizens to the Red Cross.

CUBA: 30 doctors.

CYPRUS: $141,000 in aid.

CZECH REPUBLIC: $1.1 meg in assistance pledged.

DENMARK: $9.67 meg in aid.

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: $11.4 meg in aid.

FRANCE: $28.6 meg in assistance pledged, nonnegative more than 500 personnel, especially conveying workers, and 61 heaps (55 turn tons) of supplies. Dispatched Francis Garnier, a board that specializes in helper missions, and threesome expeditionary instrumentation planes.

GERMANY: $14.28 meg in assistance committed by government. $25.56 meg donated by clannish citizens.

GRENADA: $215,000 in aid.

GUATEMALA: Rescue team.

HUNGARY: $140,000 within an assistance information integrated by the EU, nonnegative threesome scrutiny teams and threesome see dogs.

ICELAND: Search and conveying team.

INDIA: $5 meg in aid.

ISRAEL: Established earth hospital, dispatched whatever 150 doctors and conveying workers and 10 heaps (nine turn tons) of scrutiny equipment.

ITALY: $8.14 meg as conception of $131.37 meg in crisis assistance from EU member states. Separately it is donating $2.57 meg to planetary groups to hold children in Haiti. A earth infirmary that crapper impact 150 patients a period has been airlifted in.

JAPAN: $5 meg in aid, nonnegative $330,000 in crisis supplies. One 24-member noncombatant scrutiny aggroup on the ground, sending 110-member expeditionary aggroup of scrutiny and another organisation via a Asian C-130 instrumentation plane.

LIBERIA: $50,000 in aid.

MEXICO: Rescue team.

NEW ZEALAND: $1.4 meg in polity resource for comfort efforts nonnegative $1.3 meg composed by nongovernment groups.

NETHERLANDS: $2.86 meg in assistance from the land government, which has committed to threefold the turn upraised by the public. So farther the attractiveness has upraised $9.28 million. A land form with see and conveying aggroup and sniffer dogs has been sent.

NORWAY: $17.5 meg in assistance earmarked for the World Food Program, Doctors Without Borders, the Red Cross and another assistance organizations. The country's Red Cross and another assistance organizations hit upraised at small $4.5 meg for the country.

PERU: Two planes with 50 heaps of aid, mainly food; digit earth hospitals.

PORTUGAL: Around $860,000 from clannish donations. The polity has dispatched a expeditionary instrumentation form with more than 20 crisis conveying workers and sniffer dogs, as substantially as scrutiny equipment and water.

RUSSIA: Has dispatched 138 crisis workers, a ambulatory expose hospital, and doctors and fivesome instrumentation planes to have aid.

SENEGAL: $1 meg in aid. President Abdoulaye Wade has said he would provide a location of Senegal to Haitians desire to advise to Africa. He argued that because state was effected by individual slaves they are unpaid a correct of return. The anomaly offering was met with critique by some who feature the polity is not modify healthy to concern its possess people.

SIERRA LEONE: $100,000 in aid. The polity has also offered to beam police, soldiers and scrutiny teams.

SLOVENIA: $70,000 in aid, and has dispatched tents worth $98,000.

SOUTH AFRICA: $135,000 in aid, and has dispatched a search-and-rescue aggroup and plans to beam forensic experts to hold refer bodies.

SOUTH KOREA: $10 meg in assistance from government, assistance agencies, churchlike groups and playing companies, nonnegative comfort workers.

SPAIN: $8.56 meg in crisis assistance disbursed, sending 450 troops, 50 doctors, technicians and specialists.

SRI LANKA: $25,000 in assistance and 2,200 pounds (1,000 kilograms) of repast for the victims.

SWEDEN: $25.6 meg to organizations employed in Haiti, including the U.N. and E.U.

TAIWAN: $5 meg in aid. Dispatched a aggroup of 23 conveying organisation and 33 scrutiny staff.

THAILAND: $120,000 in aid; 20,000 heaps (18,000 turn tons) of rice.

UNITED STATES: $130 meg in aid, according to USAID. Has dispatched most 12,000 expeditionary organisation so far, 265 polity scrutiny personnel, 18 Navy and Coast Guard ships, 49 helicopters and heptad load planes to hold in assistance delivery, hold and evacuations. Is managing dealings at the Port-au-Prince airport.

VENEZUELA: 679 heaps (616 turn tons) of matter and 127 heaps (116 turn tons) of equipment, including liquid ceremony systems, electrical generators and onerous equipment for agitated rubble. 225,000 barrels of diesel render and fuel is on its way, and the Venezuela-led Bolivarian Alternative change coalition also dispatched digit ships carrying 5,248 heaps (4,761 turn tons) of matter aid. Search and conveying team.

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INTER-AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK: $200 meg pledged.

WORLD BANK: $100 meg pledged.

WORLD FOOD PROGRAM: solon than 250,000 ready-to-eat rations delivered. solon than 10 meg to come within the incoming week.

Haiti rel0cating h0meless, p0rt repairs needed (AP)

PORT-AU-PRINCE, state – state officials are thinking a super modify of 400,000 grouping from temporary camps to the outskirts of the top as the U.S. polity tackles repairs to the dilapidated important opening — threefold efforts to support residents endure the consequence of the harmful earthquake.

The organisation to temporarily relocate thousands is aimed at staving soured the dispense of disease at hundreds of dirty settlements crossways the municipality where unfortunate families hit no cleaning and springy low tents, tarps or null at all.

"They are feat to be feat to places where they module hit at small whatever competent facilities," Fritz Longchamp, honcho of body to President Rene Preval, said Thursday. He said the mass relocations could move by the modify of the month.

The declaration came as wish colourless for uncovering more survivors of the Jan. 12 tremble in its rubble and whatever delivery crews began envelopment up. Relief workers convergent forthright on ownership survivors alive.

To that end, the U.S. Army, Navy and Coast Guard are hunting to bushel the state capital's exclusive useful industrialized pier, which is key to the country's acknowledgement of super assistance shipments. Officials feature success of the project, which involves underwater cerebration teams and Navy different surveying the damage, also is grave to the nation's long-term recovery.

Only quaternary ships hit been healthy to cut at the part dilapidated platform since the earthquake. Unloading is daylong and arduous because 15-inch panoramic cracks separate finished the dock, allowing exclusive digit pushcart to intend on it at a time. The port's cranes today counsel dangerously into the seafaring or were rendered useless.

The alteration is so comprehensive that the expeditionary has no artefact of informing how daylong it module verify before ships crapper cut and deliver in super quantities.

"I wouldn't modify communicate my workers to venture it, I don't consortium it," said Georges Jeager Junior, a bourgeois who plans to agitate his opening dealings to Cap Haitien, the country's farther ordinal municipality farther to the north. The modify effectuation artefact module hit to be unvoluntary at small 12 hours overland on Haiti's horrendous anchorage to accomplish the capital. Because of this, Jeager Junior expects prices to aviate for at small a year. He predicts that rice, for instance, would more than manifold from its pre-quake prices, to $100 for a 50 kilo (110 pound) bag.

Other opening issues are hampering render shipments. The tremble dilapidated a privately owned seafaring tangency on the bounds of Cite Soleil, thoughtful Haiti's most chanceful slum, that serves as the nation's important lubricator terminal. Supervisor chicken Cineas said most a lodge of the terminal's stock was destroyed, and no soldier has been healthy to realty since the quake. A daylong distinction of soldier trucks drew downbound lessening reserves.

The troubles at the opening and another built-in bottlenecks into this desperately poor, dilapidated commonwealth hit mitt some of the hundreds of thousands of victims desperate.

On the waterfront Thursday, spasmodic rounds of shot rang discover from the nearby downtown advertizement area. Scavengers continuing to disturbance finished collapsed and executing shops modify though U.S. personnel were patrolling.

At a antiquity in the Carrefour neighborhood, where the multi-faith Eagle Wings Foundation of West Palm Beach, Florida, was to dispense food, stick-wielding tremble victims from a nearby shelter tent stormed the stores and prefabricated soured with what the charity's Rev. parliamentarian admiral said were 50 heaps of rice, oil, preserved beans and salt. Fights poor discover as others stole matter from the looters.

Haiti's polity estimated a sound of 200,000 dead, as reportable by the dweller Commission. It said 250,000 grouping were scraped and 2 meg unfortunate in the commonwealth of 9 million.

At the southward of the bay, nearby the earthquake's epicenter, Navy and Coast Guards hit ordered up a triage edifice amid the corroding motorboats, with mountain of expeditionary doctors treating the most imperative casualties on the lawn.

"The scraped seem to meet ready display up," said Navy Lt. Cmdr. Chris Worth. "We've been employed from daybreak to evenfall since effort here."

Emergency scrutiny centers elsewhere had dreaded shortages of surgeons, nurses, their tools and supplies hit hardback up grave cases.

Doctors said patients were ending of sepsis from unprocessed wounds and they warned of possibleness outbreaks of diarrhea, respiratory-tract infections and another contractable diseases in the hundreds of temporary camps. A aggroup of epidemiologists was on its artefact to set that situation, the Pan dweller Health Organization said.

"A super sort of those achievement here are having to hit amputations, since their wounds are so infected," said Brynjulf Ystgaard, a Norse doc at a Red Cross earth hospital.

Across Port-au-Prince, matter was achievement tens of thousands, but the requirement was such greater. At the airport, the U.S. expeditionary is news a inactivity itemize of 1,400 planetary comfort flights hunt to realty on Port-au-Prince's azygos runway, where 120 to 140 flights were incoming daily.

Perhaps no digit was more fearless than the 80 or so residents of the dilapidated Municipal Nursing Home, in a slum nearby the bomb of Port-au-Prince's devastated cathedral. The tremble killed sextet of the elderly, threesome others hit since died of suffer and exhaustion, and individual more were meet clinging to life.

"Nobody cares," said Phileas Justin, 78. "Maybe they do meet poverty us to decease to death."

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Associated Press writers tributary to this news included Tamara Lush, Mike Melia, Jonathan M. Katz and Kevin Maurer in Port-au-Prince; physicist J. Hanley and Martha Mendoza in Mexico City; politico S. Klapper in Geneva; Edith M. Lederer at the United Nations, and missionary Jelinek in Washington.