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jsistance can take the form of [emergency communications lor emergency mass feeding limmed lately following a disaster,” he said. “What we call the ‘rehabilitation phase’ usually follows, and it is then that we can provide a hard-hit family the long-range assistance which will help it resume its normal, predisaster way of life." It is this recovery operation—after the emergency is over—which requires the greatest Red Cross expenditures, he observed, j Nationwide, the Red Cross as a whole has been dealt a series of crushing financial blows since 1964 in the form of major, front-page disasters. Pillow listed the Alaskan earth quake in 1964, Hurricane Betsy in 1965, the Alaskan floods in August 1967, and Hurricane Beulah in September 1967 as the most notable of these. “Millions of dollars were spent on these relief operations,- said Pillow, “severely taxing the resources of the organization. The grim face we face today is that, as a result, jRed Cross disaster funds have been dangerously depleted.” | Pillow called this budget
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