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MANILA, Philippines - MANILA, Philippines (AP) - provides to us military aircraft with relief and a contingent of Marines has left the Philippine capital on the road to the coast this devastated by the typhoon in the country.
Air base of the C-130 left Manila Vilamor Monday loaded with bottled water, generators, wrapped in plastic, a forklift and two trucks.
It was the first US aid flight to the region, where thousands are feared dead and tens of thousands more homeless as a result of the Typhoon on Friday.
The flight was headed for Tacloban, a town badly damaged by the storm and in desperate need of aid.
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It is in the United States, the future of the Western Sahara conflict. Moroccans and Polisariens, are noise in this country to present their arguments and rally the maximum of politicians of their causes. It is in this context that corresponds to the new visit of the leader of the Polisario Front in Washington and New York.
Mohamed Abdelaziz, leader of the POLISARIO accepted a lobby in the United States in operation. Dr. $j("#article_img").attr ("longdesc", "http://i.ycdn.org:443/files/articles/cb2618a5d10577c9a19aba823fd38348.jpeg"); $j("#article_img").attr ("Title", ""); $j("#article_img").fullsize ({shadow: false, IconOffset: 2, destroy: false, ExtraTrigger: '.myClass', ParentSteps: 2});New diplomatic offensive of the Polisario Front in the United States. Since then is yesterday, Mohamed Abdelaziz in the land of Uncle Sam. A stay of several days, while he politician from Washington to the Republican and democratic parties need to meet. There is also a redirect on the side of the seat of the United Nations in New York. Sahara sources believe that that would be the movement of the head of the front in consultation with the President of the Robert Kennedy Center ready.
Mrs Kennedy, succeeded by his resolute support for the defense of the Polisario Front and its strong networks within the Democratic Party, in the background the law firm Foley Hoag, formerly main lobby which descend POLISARIO to Washington. In April full debate at the Security Council on the US draft resolution proposes an extension of the mandate of MINURSO monitoring rights of the people in the Sahara flew meet Kerry Kennedy, emergency, which in Madrid with the head of Spanish diplomacy, José Margallo, to convince, to take him and which add to the Polisario Front. One approach, of course, not successful, but showed, that the Lady no trouble to snatch the venue and in record time by the level of the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs politicians.
A delegation from the U.S. Congress was in Tindouf
This trip is the head of the Polisario Front, Mohamed Abdelaziz, only 24 hours after 12 members of Congress visit began last Tuesday in the camps of Tindouf completed have. Visit were accompanied during the six members of the Algerian Parliament. With the Barack Obama administration the POLISARIO and Kerry Kennedy know very well, that she have a chance to win more support in Washington. She showed up in April. Building on this success, start the second phase of its strategy. The Morocco need to its diplomatic networks to not activate in a difficult position as fall last April.
