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President Bush (news - web sites), seeking to bolster America's humanitarian image after the Asian tsunamis, called on January 1, 2005 for flags to be flown at half-staff next week to honor victims of the disaster. A day after he raised the U.S. aid contribution to $350 million from $35 million, Bush used his weekly radio address to emphasize the need for private relief donations for devastated areas where massive waves killed at least 124,000 people and left 5 million others homeless. In this photo, an American soldier helps load a bag of foodstuff that will be donated to the tsunami survivors in Sumatra on January 1, 2005.

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Pakistani naval soldiers upload relief food for tsunami hit areas on a ship at Karachi port. Foreign troops airdropped food and set up clean water as the massive aid effort took shape to help millions left homeless and hungry from Asia's tsunami disaster, whose death toll crept towards 150,000.

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Bush used his weekly radio address to emphasize the need for private relief donations for devastated areas where massive waves killed at least 124,000 people and left 5 million others homeless.

He knows that private donations to organizations directly helping the victims won't likely end up lining the pockets of government officials in the affected countries