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DeepModem Mom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-10-05 06:26 PM
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NYT/AP: Cheney Visits Austin, TX, Hurricane Evacuee Sites
Cheney Visits Hurricane Evacuee Sites
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: September 10, 2005
Filed at 5:21 p.m. ET

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- Vice President Dick Cheney toured Hurricane Katrina shelter operations in Texas' capital Saturday, praising the state's efforts to assist evacuees from the Gulf Coast.

While he was at the Austin Convention Center shelter, about two dozen protesters gathered outside chanting, ''Cheney, Cheney, you can't hide, we charge you with genocide.''

Cheney also visited the Texas State Operations Center, where state officials did the planning for receiving more than 240,000 people in Texas after flood waters rose in New Orleans.

At the convention center, where 1,500 evacuees remained, Cheney met briefly with 23-year-old Telisha Diaz, who told him she spent four days at the New Orleans convention center before being brought to Austin a week ago.

''It's overwhelming that the state of Texas is giving so much, just giving us everything -- jobs, food,'' Diaz told the vice president, who was surrounded by local officials and congressmen....


http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Katrina-Cheney.html
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