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French team makes new ‘miracle’ rescue in Haiti

BEN FOX

VIVIAN SEQUERA

Associated Press Writers

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – A French search team that wouldn’t go home pulled off another “miracle” rescue in Port-au-Prince, lifting a 17-year-old girl alive from beneath this cityscape of rubble. Above ground, hundreds of thousands of other survivors hoped for a breakthrough of another kind – in delivering badly needed food aid.

Key players in the Haiti earthquake relief effort, in what may have been a pivotal meeting, decided to better coordinate by dividing up the city among themselves for handing out food.