Several Thousand Still Stranded In New Orleans... "They Just Left Us Here To Die"...
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An influx of National Guard troops speeded evacuation efforts and brought a relative calm to this devastated city Saturday, but authorities continued to struggle to evacuate thousands, to quell sporadic fires and looting, and to cope with a diaspora of the dispossessed fanning out across the nation.
President Bush ordered 7,200 Army and Marine reinforcements to join a National Guard force expected to swell to 40,000 regionally in coming days. The military helped clear the squalid Superdome shelter and vastly reduced the encampment at the city's convention center, nearly a week after massive flooding unleashed by Hurricane Katrina.
The Los Angeles Times | Lianne Hart, David Zucchino, and James Rainey | September 4, 2005 08:40 AM