[Mb-civic] BBC E-mail: Multiple failures caused relief crisis

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They continued with an inadequate evacuation plan and culminated in a relief effort hampered by lack of planning, supplies and manpower, and a breakdown in communications of the most basic sort. 

On top of all this, there is the question of whether an earlier intervention by President Bush could have a made a big difference. 



** Multiple failures caused relief crisis **
The breakdown of the relief operation in New Orleans was the result of multiple failures by city, state and federal authorities, says Paul Reynolds
< http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/americas/4216508.stm >


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