
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, August 19, 1993                   TAG: 9309120236
SECTION: EDITORIAL                    PAGE: A14   EDITION: METRO 
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HELP FROM AN UNLIKELY SOURCE

IN SAMUEL C. Palmer's July 27 letter to the editor (``And no relief in sight''), he wrote about the lack of foreign aid for the victims of the flooding in our Midwest. Actually, there is one nation that has furnished help to those suffering Americans.

That country is not an oil-rich Arab state, not even one of those we fought for in the Gulf War. Nor is it an industrial giant such as Germany or Japan, which we rebuilt from their world-war defeats.

No, the only country to provide aid to our flood victims is rather one of the most impoverished and overpopulated nations on the face of the planet. Bangladesh is donating sand bags and tea.

It may not sound like much, but it's more than any other country has given. And it's all it can afford to give.

KEN DUNN

ROANOKE

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