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By VICTOR L. SIMPSON, Associated Press Writer

VATICAN CITY - Presidents, prime ministers and kings joined pilgrims and prelates in St. Peter's Square on Friday to bid an emotional farewell to Pope John Paul II at a funeral service that drew millions to Rome for the largest gathering of the powerful and the humble in modern times.

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Applause rang out in the wind-whipped square as John Paul's plain cypress coffin, adorned with a cross and an "M" for the Virgin Mary, was brought out from St. Peter's Basilica and placed on a carpet in front of the altar. The book of the Gospel was placed on the coffin and the breeze fluttered its pages.

After the Mass ended, bells tolled and 12 pallbearers with white gloves, white ties and tails presented the coffin to the crowd one last time, and then carried it on their shoulders back inside the basilica for burial — again to sustained applause from the hundreds of thousands in the square, including dignitaries from 138 countries.

Chants of "Santo! Santo!" — urging John Paul to be elevated to sainthood immediately — echoed in the square.

The first non-Italian pope in 455 years was buried at 2:20 p.m. (8:20 a.m. EDT) in the grotto under the basilica, attended by prelates and members of the papal household, the Vatican said.

Nearly 4 million people jammed into Rome since the pope died Saturday, doubling the city's population. There has been no major violence despite the crowds and the many dignitaries, including heads of state, although an apparent miscommunication after the funeral prompted Italian air force jets to intercept a plane flying in to pick up an official delegation.

The 2 1/2-hour Mass began with the Vatican's Sistine Choir singing the Gregorian chant, "Grant Him Eternal Rest, O Lord." Cardinals wearing white miters walked onto the square, their red vestments blowing in the breeze.

Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, dean of the College of Cardinals, a close confidant of John Paul and a possible successor, presided at the Mass and referred to him as our "late beloved pope" in a homily that traced the pontiff's life from his days as a factory worker in Nazi-occupied Poland to his final days as the head of the world's 1 billion Catholics.

Interrupted by applause at least 10 times, the usually unflappable German-born Ratzinger choked up as he recalled one of John Paul's last public appearances — when he blessed the faithful from his studio window on Easter.

"We can be sure that our beloved pope is standing today at the window of the father's house, that he sees us and blesses us," he said to applause, even among the prelates, as he pointed up to the third-floor window above the square.

"Today we bury his remains in the earth as a seed of immortality — our hearts are full of sadness, yet at the same time of joyful hope and profound gratitude," Ratzinger said in heavily accented Italian.

He said John Paul was a "priest to the last" and said he had offered his life for God and his flock "especially amid the sufferings of his final months."

Ratzinger was interrupted again toward the end of the Mass by several minutes of cheers, rhythmic applause and shouts of "Giovanni Paolo Santo" or "Saint John Paul," from the crowd. The eruption of cheers came right before the Litany of Saints chant, in which the names of the saints are read.

The Mass ended with everyone standing and singing together: "May the angels accompany you into heaven, may the martyrs welcome you when you arrive, and lead you to Holy Jerusalem."

John Paul requested in his last will and testament to be interred "in the bare earth," and he was laid to rest among the pontiffs from centuries past near the tomb traditionally believed to be of the apostle Peter, the first pope.

The coffin was definitively closed with red bands and both papal and Vatican seals, and nested inside a second casket of zinc and then within a third of walnut. The outside casket bears the name of the pope, his cross and his papal coat of arms.

The casket was then lowered into the ground in a plot inside a small chapel, between the tombs of two women: Queen Christina of Sweden and Queen Carlotta of Cyprus, said a senior Vatican official who attended the ceremony.

 

Closed to the public, the service was witnessed by top Vatican prelates and performed by the camerlengo, or chamberlain, Cardinal Eduardo Martinez Somalo. He concluded with the words: "Lord, grant him eternal rest, and may perpetual light shine upon him."

Photos made available to the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano showed workers welding the zinc coffin shut inside the walnut casket, then fastening its wooden lid with a drill. The casket was then lowered into a crypt with chains and straps on a pulley.

John Paul's tomb will be covered with a flat stone bearing his name and the dates of his birth and death.

Papal spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls said the Vatican would announce in a few days when the grotto would be reopened to the public.

At least 300,000 people filled St. Peter's Square and spilled out onto the wide Via della Conciliazione leading toward the Tiber River, but millions of others watched on giant video screens set up across Rome. Banners read "Santo Subito," or "Sainthood Immediately." Many millions more watched around the world.

Funerals in the last century for Mohandas Gandhi of India, Mao Zedong of China and Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini of Iran drew millions, too, but they lacked the presence of leaders from so many nations that came to mourn the pope.

St. Peter's Square and the boulevard leading to it were a sea of red and white flags waved by pilgrims from John Paul's native Poland, many in traditional dress shouting "Polska! Polska!" Pilgrims from other countries raised their national flags in the crowd — American, Lebanese, Spanish, Croatian — and prayers were read out during the Mass in a host of languages — French, Swahili, Portuguese, among others.

"We just wanted to say goodbye to our father for the last time," said Joanna Zmijewsla, 24, who traveled for 30 hours with her brother from a town near Kielce, Poland, arriving at St. Peter's at 1 a.m. Friday.

American Archbishop James Harvey, head of papal protocol, greeted dignitaries and religious leaders as they emerged onto the steps of the basilica.

Turbans, fezzes, yarmulkes, black lace veils, or mantillas, joined the "zucchettos," or skull caps, of Catholic prelates on the steps of St. Peter's in an extraordinary mix of religious and government leaders from around the world.

"I'm here because I'm a believer but also to live a moment in history," said Stephan Aubert, wearing a French flag draped over his shoulders.

Vatican ushers seated dignitaries who were given a chance to view John Paul's body before it was carried out of the basilica — where it has lain in state since Monday — and into the square.

Bells tolled as the final leaders took their places on red-cushioned wooden seats. Ten minutes before the start of the funeral, the U.S. delegation arrived, headed by President Bush, and including his father, former President George H.W. Bush, and former President Bill Clinton.

President Bush sat on the aisle in the second row, next to his wife, Laura. Beside them were French President Jacques Chirac and his wife, Bernadette. The two presidents shook hands.

When Bush's face appeared on giant screen TVs showing the ceremony, many in the crowds outside St. Peter's Square booed and whistled.

Jewish and Muslim leaders were among the dignitaries, including the presidents of Syria and Iran, and the king of Jordan.

Others in crowd included U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, former Polish President Lech Walesa, and Britain's Prince Charles, who delayed his wedding one day so he could attend.

Rome itself was at a standstill as extraordinary security measures were put in place. Just after midnight Thursday, a ban on vehicle traffic in the city center took effect. Airspace was closed, and anti-aircraft batteries outside the city were on alert. Naval ships patrolled both the Mediterranean coast and the Tiber near Vatican City, the tiny sovereign city-state encompassed by the Italian capital.

Elite Carabinieri paramilitary police armed with automatic rifles were stationed at virtually every major intersection in Rome.

Combat jets from Italy's air force, joined by an AWACS surveillance plane deployed by NATO, guarded against any strike from above. Italian security agencies posted snipers on rooftops.

Three hours after the funeral, an Italian F-16 jet fighter intercepted a suspicious plane heading to Rome's Ciampino airport and escorted it to a local military airfield, Italian news agencies reported. The ANSA agency quoted air force chief Leonardo Tricarico as saying intelligence indicated there might be a bomb on the plane, but none was found.

Officials in Belgrade said the plane had been sent to fly home the official delegation from Serbia-Montenegro, but it was not immediately clear if this was the same plane.

The pope's death on Saturday at age 84 elicited a remarkable outpouring of affection worldwide.

In Krakow, Poland, where John Paul studied for the priesthood, about 800,000 people watched the funeral on three TV screens set up in a field. Many had spent the night around bonfires after a Thursday night Mass drew a million people.

Sirens wailed in Warsaw for three minutes to announce the start of the funeral to the Polish capital. Some 25,000 people packed Pilsudski Square where the pope celebrated Mass during his first visit to his homeland as pope.

The faithful also gathered across Africa, Asia and in the Americas to watch the service on television or to pray for John Paul.

Before the Mass, there was an intimate ceremony inside the basilica, attended only by high-ranking prelates, who placed a pouch of silver and bronze medals and a scrolled account of his life in his coffin.

The scroll said John Paul's "love for the young" inspired him to begin World Youth Days. The account traces his life from his birth through his election as pope and mentions highlights of his papacy, including his efforts to reach out to Jews and other non-Catholics and his travels with a "tireless missionary spirit."

His longtime private secretary, Archbishop Stanislaw Dziwisz, and the master of the liturgical ceremonies, Archbishop Piero Marini, placed a white silk veil over the pope's face before the coffin was closed.

Dziwisz was seen weeping at several occasions during the Mass.

In his will, released by the Vatican on the eve of the funeral, John Paul gave instructions for his burial and also told Dziwisz to burn his personal notes upon his death. He also suggested he considered resigning in 2000, when his infirmities were already apparent. Revising his will just three days before a historic pilgrimage to the Holy Land, John Paul prayed that God would "help me to recognize up to what point I must continue this service."

On Thursday, the huge bronze doors of St. Peter's were closed to the public in preparation for the Mass. In four days, some estimates say nearly 2 million pilgrims passed by his bier to pay their last respects.

The College of Cardinals will meet beginning April 18 in its conclave to elect a successor.

Rome groaned under the weight of visitors. Side streets were clogged in a permanent pedestrian rush hour, mostly by kids with backpacks. Tent camps sprang up at the Circus Maximus and elsewhere around the city to take the spillover from hotels. Hawkers jacked up prices of everything from bottled water to papal trinkets.

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Associated Press reporters Nicole Winfield and Daniela Petroff contributed to this report.


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You have been sent this message from terrible@hungry.com as a courtesy of w= ashingtonpost.com=20 =20 Personal Message: U.S. Begins Aid Delivery in Sumatra Japan Becomes Top Donor With 0 Million Pledge By Edward Cody Washington Post Foreign Service Sunday, January 2, 2005; 11:28 AM BANDA ACEH, Indonesia, Jan. 1 -- The first U.S. Navy helicopters fluttered = in from an offshore carrier group Saturday and ferried aid to flattened tow= ns along the western coast of Sumatra island largely cut off from help sinc= e a tsunami six days ago inflicted one of history's great disasters on Indo= nesia. A day after the United States increased its contribution to the tsunami rec= onstruction effort to 0 million, Japan raised its pledge from millio= n to 0 million. With Japan's donation, the largest from any government, = about billion has been promised for emergency aid for an estimated 5 mil= lion people in South Asia and parts of Africa. __ Tsunami in South Asia __ Casualty Map Track the path of destruction in an animated map and view updated casualty = reports. =95 How to Help Victims=20 _____ On the Scene_____ Photo Gallery As the death toll continues to grow, survivors wait in lines for relief ite= ms and mourn the dead. Satellite Images Banda Aceh's destruction is detailed. 'Like a Scene From the Bible' The Post's Michael Dobbs describes his personal experience in Sri Lanka whe= n the tsunami hit. =95 Audio: Dobbs in Sri Lanka More Audio and Video =95 Video: President Bush | Text=20 =95 Video: Indonesian Embassy=20 =95 Video: Survivors Tell Their Stories=20 =95 More Coverage=20 _____Free E-mail Newsletters_____ =95=A0Today's Headlines & Columnists See a Sample=A0 | =A0Sign Up Now =95=A0Breaking News Alerts See a Sample=A0 | =A0Sign Up Now "It's the biggest outpouring of relief in such a short period of time," sai= d Jan Egeland, the U.N. emergency relief coordinator. "International compas= sion has never been like this." An Indonesian official said Sunday the authorities were preparing to call o= ff the search for survivors, the Associated Press reported. "There is very little chance of finding survivors after seven days," Lamsar= Sipahutar, the head of Indonesia's search team, said. "We are about to sto= p the search-and-rescue operations. If you survived the earthquake, you pro= bably were killed by tsunami." Also on Sunday, Secretary of State Colin Powell defended the Bush administr= ation's response to the tsunami against criticism from U.N. officials and m= embers of Congress who said the United States was slow to respond with fina= ncial aid. "The American response has been appropriate. It has been scaled up as the s= cale of the disaster became more widely known," Powell said on NBC's "Meet = the Press." "It's been seven days and in seven days, we have launched a carrier battle = group. We have launched an amphibious battle group. We have contributed = 0 million. We have assessment teams all over. We have energized the private= sector. We have put together a core group that has assisted these nations.= The nations involved are very pleased," he said. Powell was scheduled to depart later Sunday for a trip to the tsunami-struc= k region. He was to be accompanied by Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R), the presid= ent's brother. Aftershocks shook the region Saturday, including a 6.5-magnitude tremor 215= miles west of this hard-hit provincial capital, according to the U.S. Geol= ogical Survey. Smaller quakes were felt in northern Sumatra island and the = remote Indian island groups of Nicobar and Andaman to the north. Tropical rains poured down in intervals throughout the day, adding to the m= isery of tens of thousands of refugees living in tents or without shelter. = Heavy rains also fell in Sri Lanka, creating flash floods that sent village= rs running for high ground, according to news agency reports from Colombo, = the capital. Navy relief deliveries, carried out by a dozen specially fitted SH-60 Bravo= helicopters from the USS Abraham Lincoln, marked the start of a large-scal= e international relief operation that residents of devastated Aceh province= have been awaiting for nearly a week. Relief officials said the deliveries= of food, water and medicine were particularly welcome along the shore sout= h of Banda Aceh, where the wall of water destroyed a series of bridges and = left the main road impossible to navigate. "We are basically here to do whatever is needed," said Capt. Larry Burt of = Lamore, Calif., who commanded the Navy's first group to arrive at Sultan Is= kandar Muda Airport in Banda Aceh. "I hope to get more stuff in here and start delivering it," said Cmdr. Fran= k Michael of Dallas, Pa., who piloted one of the craft. The dull-gray Navy helicopters, usually deployed to hunt submarines, flew i= n from the Lincoln carrier group, which was steaming a few miles east of Ba= nda Aceh in the now-tranquil Indian Ocean. With help from Australian and In= donesian military personnel, U.S. forces loaded supplies for immediate deli= very southward. According to civilian relief officials who flew over the disaster zone, sig= nificant relief is needed in coastal areas. Indonesian navy ships have deli= vered supplies to Meulaboh, a destroyed port 110 miles south of here, they = said, but thousands of homeless and hungry victims have lined the main road= north and south of the town, looking in vain for shelter and food since th= e tsunami washed away their villages. As Burt and Michael spoke on the tarmac, C-130 Hercules transport planes fr= om the Australian, U.S. and Indonesian militaries whined onto the runways w= ith deliveries of more relief supplies. Singaporean Super Puma military hel= icopters joined Indonesian air force craft churning up the air, while truck= s drove in and out picking up cargo. After days during which foreign govern= ments seemed slow to respond to Indonesia's massive tragedy, there was a se= nse of sudden acceleration in the international relief operation. Alwi Shihab, coordinating minister for social welfare, defended his efforts= against complaints from many victims and Indonesian rescue volunteers that= Indonesian and international officials were slow in getting started. "It's= not that we are doing nothing," he said at a news conference here. For the first time since the tsunami struck, heavy equipment such as front-= end loaders was seen pushing away debris and mud from Aceh's destroyed city= center. But soldiers continued to pick up bodies from the streets and most= of the city remained without utilities and a working government. Because many local officials were killed, Shihab said, the Interior Ministr= y will fly in more than 300 officials from Jakarta, the capital, to staff p= rovincial and municipal administrations across Aceh province. Seeking to gi= ve an idea of the scope of the difficulty he faces, Shihab said 150,000 peo= ple made homeless by the disaster have crowded into 20 different refugee ca= mps in Banda Aceh, without counting the thousands who have found refuge wit= h relatives or are still wandering flattened villages along the western coa= st. U.N. officials said the up-tempo in relief flights created a traffic jam in= the skies over Indonesia and Sri Lanka, the two hardest-hit countries in a= disaster whose confirmed death toll exceeded 123,000. Egeland estimated th= at the toll actually is about 150,000, when the missing are counted -- and = may never be known with precision. Indonesia, with at least 80,000 dead and possibly as many as 100,000, by fa= r had the largest number of victims among the countries bordering the India= n Ocean that were hit by the tsunami. Sri Lanka, with 28,700 dead, came nex= t. India had 9,000 dead and Thailand had 4,800 confirmed dead. Across the r= egion, thousands of people remained missing and were presumed dead. U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan said in an interview being aired Sunday o= n the ABC News program "This Week" that the reconstruction process could ta= ke years. "It will differ from country to country," he said, "but my own se= nse is that you probably have five to 10 years." In Thailand, the government brought in elephants to help clear debris along= southern beaches. "Elephants could work better in pulling out the remains = of collapsed buildings and houses, especially in areas flooded with mud or = hilly areas," said Siriphong Leeprasit, a local official in Phangnga provin= ce quoted by the Associated Press. Paul Shumack, a Brisbane physician who heads an Australian medical rescue t= eam, said the international aid effort was particularly slow to get up to s= peed in Aceh because news of the extent of the death and destruction here t= rickled out slowly, leading to tardy decisions by world leaders. In additio= n, he pointed out, the earthquake and tidal wave caused such vast destructi= on that much of Sumatra island's infrastructure and officialdom was shatter= ed, slowing Indonesia's official response. "It's a disaster of huge magnitude, a magnitude that is almost beyond conce= iving," he said. "It took a hell of a long time to realize the magnitude of= what happened, and then, given the logistics, to react." Relief officials also complained that Indonesian military and civilian offi= cials have slowed the process with bureaucratic requirements and lack of co= ordination. Until the U.S. military operation began Saturday, the aid organ= izations that seemed most effective were self-contained operations with the= ir own vehicles and supplies, freeing them from reliance on Indonesian auth= orities. Australian medical teams, for instance, have been at work for several days = in Banda Aceh and surrounding towns. Shumack said his team brought enough f= ood to feed its members for 20 days and enough equipment and medicine to tr= eat 500 people a day for 10 days. Many of the patients the Australians have treated suffered from gangrene co= ntracted after infection of deep cuts and tears received while being tumble= d along with the debris during the tsunami. The injuries went without treat= ment for nearly a week, allowing the gangrene to take hold. As a result, do= ctors have resorted to amputation on several occasions. Japan, which has already dispatched two naval destroyers and a supply ship = to waters off Thailand, is also in the midst of deploying additional troops= to aid in rescue operations, officials said in Tokyo. Despite the quickening flow of international aid, supplies were still slow = in reaching the millions of people who need them, officials acknowledged. P= iles of boxes were stacked up at the airport in Aceh, for example, and Riza= l Nordin, governor of Northern Sumatra province south of here, said hundred= s of tons were piling up at a staging area in Medan. "The scale of the disaster is just too big," Andi Mallarangeng, a spokesman= for Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, told reporters. "We can= bring in the aid, food, but we need manpower to distribute them." Tsoeng Hasanudin, a coordinator for the International Tzu Chi Buddhist Foun= dation at Aceh airport, said his Taiwan-based group had hundreds of boxes o= f relief supplies waiting to be distributed but could not find the trucks t= o get them moving. "We need more trucks," he complained. Correspondent Anthony Faiola in Tokyo and special correspondent Noor Huda I= smail contributed to this report. 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Websites =20 U.S. Begins Aid Delivery in Sumatra =20 By Edward Cody =20 =20 BANDA ACEH, Indonesia, Jan. 1 -- The first U.S. Navy helicopters flutt= ered in from an offshore carrier group Saturday and ferried aid to flattene= d towns along the western coast of Sumatra island largely cut off from help= since a tsunami six days ago inflicted one of history's great disasters on= Indonesia. =20 A day after the United States increased its contribution to the tsunami r= econstruction effort to 0 million, Japan raised its pledge from mill= ion to 0 million. With Japan's donation, the largest from any government= , about billion has been promised for emergency aid for an estimated 5 m= illion people in South Asia and parts of Africa. =20 "It's the biggest outpouring of relief in such a short period of time," sa= id Jan Egeland, the U.N. emergency relief coordinator. "International compa= ssion has never been like this." =20 An Indonesian official said Sunday the authorities were preparing to call = off the search for survivors, the Associated Press reported.=20 =20 "There is very little chance of finding survivors after seven days," Lamsa= r Sipahutar, the head of Indonesia's search team, said. "We are about to st= op the search-and-rescue operations. If you survived the earthquake, you pr= obably were killed by tsunami." =20 Also on Sunday, Secretary of State Colin Powell defended the Bush administ= ration's response to the tsunami against criticism from U.N. officials and = members of Congress who said the United States was slow to respond with fin= ancial aid. =20 "The American response has been appropriate. It has been scaled up as the= scale of the disaster became more widely known," Powell said on NBC's "Mee= t the Press."=20 =20 "It's been seven days and in seven days, we have launched a carrier battl= e group. We have launched an amphibious battle group. We have contributed $= 350 million. We have assessment teams all over. We have energized the priva= te sector. We have put together a core group that has assisted these nation= s. The nations involved are very pleased," he said. =20 Powell was scheduled to depart later Sunday for a trip to the tsunami-stru= ck region. He was to be accompanied by Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R), the presi= dent's brother. =20 Aftershocks shook the region Saturday, including a 6.5-magnitude tremor 21= 5 miles west of this hard-hit provincial capital, according to the U.S. Geo= logical Survey. Smaller quakes were felt in northern Sumatra island and the= remote Indian island groups of Nicobar and Andaman to the north. =20 Tropical rains poured down in intervals throughout the day, adding to the= misery of tens of thousands of refugees living in tents or without shelter= . Heavy rains also fell in Sri Lanka, creating flash floods that sent villa= gers running for high ground, according to news agency reports from Colombo= , the capital. =20 Navy relief deliveries, carried out by a dozen specially fitted SH-60 Brav= o helicopters from the USS Abraham Lincoln, marked the start of a large-sca= le international relief operation that residents of devastated Aceh provinc= e have been awaiting for nearly a week. Relief officials said the deliverie= s of food, water and medicine were particularly welcome along the shore sou= th of Banda Aceh, where the wall of water destroyed a series of bridges and= left the main road impossible to navigate. =20 "We are basically here to do whatever is needed," said Capt. Larry Burt o= f Lamore, Calif., who commanded the Navy's first group to arrive at Sultan = Iskandar Muda Airport in Banda Aceh.=20 =20 "I hope to get more stuff in here and start delivering it," said Cmdr. Fra= nk Michael of Dallas, Pa., who piloted one of the craft. =20 The dull-gray Navy helicopters, usually deployed to hunt submarines, flew= in from the Lincoln carrier group, which was steaming a few miles east of = Banda Aceh in the now-tranquil Indian Ocean. With help from Australian and = Indonesian military personnel, U.S. forces loaded supplies for immediate de= livery southward. =20 According to civilian relief officials who flew over the disaster zone, s= ignificant relief is needed in coastal areas. Indonesian navy ships have de= livered supplies to Meulaboh, a destroyed port 110 miles south of here, the= y said, but thousands of homeless and hungry victims have lined the main ro= ad north and south of the town, looking in vain for shelter and food since = the tsunami washed away their villages. =20 As Burt and Michael spoke on the tarmac, C-130 Hercules transport planes = from the Australian, U.S. and Indonesian militaries whined onto the runways= with deliveries of more relief supplies. Singaporean Super Puma military h= elicopters joined Indonesian air force craft churning up the air, while tru= cks drove in and out picking up cargo. After days during which foreign gove= rnments seemed slow to respond to Indonesia's massive tragedy, there was a = sense of sudden acceleration in the international relief operation. =20 Alwi Shihab, coordinating minister for social welfare, defended his effor= ts against complaints from many victims and Indonesian rescue volunteers th= at Indonesian and international officials were slow in getting started. "It= 's not that we are doing nothing," he said at a news conference here. =20 For the first time since the tsunami struck, heavy equipment such as fron= t-end loaders was seen pushing away debris and mud from Aceh's destroyed ci= ty center. But soldiers continued to pick up bodies from the streets and mo= st of the city remained without utilities and a working government.=20 =20 Because many local officials were killed, Shihab said, the Interior Minis= try will fly in more than 300 officials from Jakarta, the capital, to staff= provincial and municipal administrations across Aceh province. Seeking to = give an idea of the scope of the difficulty he faces, Shihab said 150,000 p= eople made homeless by the disaster have crowded into 20 different refugee = camps in Banda Aceh, without counting the thousands who have found refuge w= ith relatives or are still wandering flattened villages along the western c= oast. =20 U.N. officials said the up-tempo in relief flights created a traffic jam = in the skies over Indonesia and Sri Lanka, the two hardest-hit countries in= a disaster whose confirmed death toll exceeded 123,000. Egeland estimated = that the toll actually is about 150,000, when the missing are counted -- an= d may never be known with precision. =20 Indonesia, with at least 80,000 dead and possibly as many as 100,000, by = far had the largest number of victims among the countries bordering the Ind= ian Ocean that were hit by the tsunami. Sri Lanka, with 28,700 dead, came n= ext. India had 9,000 dead and Thailand had 4,800 confirmed dead. Across the= region, thousands of people remained missing and were presumed dead. =20 U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan said in an interview being aired Sunday = on the ABC News program "This Week" that the reconstruction process could t= ake years. "It will differ from country to country," he said, "but my own s= ense is that you probably have five to 10 years."=20 =20 In Thailand, the government brought in elephants to help clear debris alon= g southern beaches. "Elephants could work better in pulling out the remains= of collapsed buildings and houses, especially in areas flooded with mud or= hilly areas," said Siriphong Leeprasit, a local official in Phangnga provi= nce quoted by the Associated Press. =20 Paul Shumack, a Brisbane physician who heads an Australian medical rescue= team, said the international aid effort was particularly slow to get up to= speed in Aceh because news of the extent of the death and destruction here= trickled out slowly, leading to tardy decisions by world leaders. In addit= ion, he pointed out, the earthquake and tidal wave caused such vast destruc= tion that much of Sumatra island's infrastructure and officialdom was shatt= ered, slowing Indonesia's official response. =20 "It's a disaster of huge magnitude, a magnitude that is almost beyond con= ceiving," he said. "It took a hell of a long time to realize the magnitude = of what happened, and then, given the logistics, to react." =20 Relief officials also complained that Indonesian military and civilian of= ficials have slowed the process with bureaucratic requirements and lack of = coordination. Until the U.S. military operation began Saturday, the aid org= anizations that seemed most effective were self-contained operations with t= heir own vehicles and supplies, freeing them from reliance on Indonesian au= thorities. =20 Australian medical teams, for instance, have been at work for several day= s in Banda Aceh and surrounding towns. Shumack said his team brought enough= food to feed its members for 20 days and enough equipment and medicine to = treat 500 people a day for 10 days.=20 =20 Many of the patients the Australians have treated suffered from gangrene = contracted after infection of deep cuts and tears received while being tumb= led along with the debris during the tsunami. The injuries went without tre= atment for nearly a week, allowing the gangrene to take hold. As a result, = doctors have resorted to amputation on several occasions. =20 Japan, which has already dispatched two naval destroyers and a supply ship= to waters off Thailand, is also in the midst of deploying additional troop= s to aid in rescue operations, officials said in Tokyo.=20 =20 Despite the quickening flow of international aid, supplies were still slo= w in reaching the millions of people who need them, officials acknowledged.= Piles of boxes were stacked up at the airport in Aceh, for example, and Ri= zal Nordin, governor of Northern Sumatra province south of here, said hundr= eds of tons were piling up at a staging area in Medan. =20 "The scale of the disaster is just too big," Andi Mallarangeng, a spokesm= an for Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, told reporters. 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Arthur Best bet he would reach the age of 100, which he did on Sunday, and as well as his special congratulatory telegramme from Queen Elizabeth he had his winnings on the 66:1 wager to enjoy.

His secret? Well, according to his son Edward: "He gave up smoking years ago. Has a drop of Scotch each night but he is not a great drinker."

A birthday party was thrown in his honour in the town of Shrewsbury in eastern England to which the guard of honour of his old regiment with which he served in India and Burma was invited.

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Jan. 10 issue - Years before Clint Eastwood chose Hilary Swank to star in his new film, Million Dollar Baby—years before she won the 2000 Oscar for playing the struggling Brandon Teena in Boys Dont Cry—she was a small-town kid living in a trailer park. Swank wanted to be an actor and took every opportunity to hone her skills. I remember sitting at McDonalds and watching this man eat, says Swank, 30. I counted how many times he chewed his burger, watched the way he sipped his Coke and copied how he dipped his french fries in the ketchup. My mom had to elbow me: Hilary! Stop staring. She repeated that demand a lot throughout my childhood. It was pretty much her mantra.


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In person, Swank is not tough or even the least bit scrappy. She is tall, willowy and delicate. She glides through the lobby of her L.A. hotel, walking and talking with a studied grace (she rarely uses slang or slips like or um between words). Swank is well put together without looking fussed over—a plain but neat sweater, designer jeans and some medium-heeled boots will do just fine. She is pleasant without being too warm; shes friendly with a passing waiter but subtly turns off the charm when he overstays his welcome. Swank is not a touchy-feely Californian. Shes a no-nonsense gal of Midwestern stock who describes her family, her mother in particular, as salt of the earth.




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PITTSBURGH - A 7 1/2-year-old monster buck named Goliath, allegedly stolen in 1999 and then returned to the ranch where he was raised, has died. The massive deer died Dec. 6; tests will determine the cause. The life span of a deer is 10 to 15 years.

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Goliath, believed to be the largest whitetail bred in captivity, vanished from the Millers' ranch in October 1999 when he was about 2, weighed 260 pounds and had 28 points, or antler tips.

In July 2003, members of the Pennsylvania Deer Farmers Association saw a deer they believed was Goliath on a deer farm about 50 miles from the Millers. The deer had grown much larger and its rack had about twice the number of points.

The farm's owner, Jeffrey Spence, is awaiting trial on charges of theft and receiving stolen property. DNA testing on the recovered buck matched a sample from Goliath before he disappeared, according to Ronald Elliott, the Millers' attorney.

Spence's attorney, Troy Harper, has said if the deer was Goliath, Spence acquired it "in the proper manner." Spence was trying to sell the buck for $150,000 at the time it was found. Some massive bucks have sold for more than $500,000.

Diane Miller said Goliath mated this fall.

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