Aid from around the country continued to move toward the stricken region.

Many doctors and nurses also offered to go to the stricken region.

Aid was sent from all around the country to the stricken region.

To the Editor: Americans did not and will not turn their backs on people in the stricken region.

Cautiously Paul slid his awareness focus closer to the stricken region.

Namibia has also rejected the offer, and other nations in this stricken region are voicing serious reservations, the officials say.

But to the first foreign journalists allowed into the stricken region today, it seemed impossible to find anything that was undamaged, or any life untouched.

The International Red Cross has said 300 people are dead and 4,000 missing in the stricken region.

Some 200,000 tons of wheat were shipped from the United States to the stricken region.

And lawmakers from stricken southern regions are desperately trying to begin the rebuilding process.