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SLUG: 2-306605 Liberia / Ship (S-O)
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DATE=8/18/03 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT TITLE=LIBERIA / SHIP (S-ONLY) NUMBER=2-306605 BYLINE=NICK SIMEONE DATELINE=WASHINGTON CONTENT=
VOICED AT: INTRO: A ship carrying emergency relief supplies to Liberia has gone down off the coast of the West African nation. Correspondent Nick Simeone reports everyone aboard the ship survived but some badly needed cargo has been lost. TEXT: The ship, the "Madame Patricia" was chartered by the U-S based charity World Vision. The vessel had set sail from neighboring Sierra Leone destined for the Liberian capital Monrovia but broke up and sank in a storm. /// WATKINS /// Sometime on Sunday it had struck a sandbar. /// END ACT /// World Vision spokeswoman Sheryl Watkins. /// SECOND WATKINS /// Unfortunately, the entire ship, the "Madame Patricia" was lost along with 86 thousand dollars in emergency relief supplies. /// END ACT /// Including thousands of blankets, soap, along with hundreds of sleeping mats as well as generators and fuel. It was the first shipload of humanitarian relief sent by World Vision to Liberia since President Charles Taylor went into exile last week and one of the first that was supposed to arrive in the country since the port of Monrovia was re-opened. World Vision expects another shipment of aid to arrive in Monrovia later this week. (SIGNED) NEB/NJS/RH/FC |
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