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> U.S. Companies Donate Tons Of Worthless Drugs To Kosovo
>
> WASHINGTON, Jun 29, 1999 -- (Agence France Presse) U.S. drug
> companies got tax breaks for donating tons of drugs of little
> value for Kosovo refugees, the New York Times reported Tuesday.
>
> U.S. corporate medical donations included boxloads of items such
> as dry lip balm, anti-hemorrhoid medicine and anti-smoking
> inhalers, the Times reported.
>
> Between one-third and half of all medical donations to the Kosovo
> refugees sent in from around the world are essentially worthless,
> according to a World Health Organization (WHO) official quoted by
> the Times.
>
> The WHO believes the useless donations are likely to gather dust
> or even be destroyed, the Times reported.
>
> Some of the shipments sent to the 700,000 Kosovo refugees held in
> camps in Macedonia and Albania included boxloads of medicine set
> to expire before they would be handed out, the Times reported,
> quoting the WHO and aid groups in the area. ((c) 1999 Agence
> France Presse)
> Clearing Kosovo Mines May Take Five Years - Expert
>
> WASHINGTON, Jun 29, 1999 -- (Reuters) A U.S. government expert
> said on Monday that it would take between 3 and 5 years to clear
> all the mines from Kosovo, which he called "one of the world's
> most dangerous real estates."
>
> Donald Steinberg, President Bill Clinton's special representative
> for global humanitarian demining, also said that with the
> clearing process just starting, it was too early for Kosovo's
> Albanian refugees to return to their homes.
>
> "Regrettably, we estimate that mines will be an everyday fact in
> life of the Kosovar people for as many as 3 to 5 years," he told
> reporters.
>
> A State Department official said six U.S. demining teams would go
> to Kosovo in seven to 10 days. A British demining team has been
> operating in the region for two weeks.
>
> Despite NATO's and humanitarian groups' mine awareness campaigns,
> about half of the refugees who left the province have gone back
> since the end of NATO bombing.
>
> Steinberg said that since then, two dozen people, including
> peacekeepers, had been victims of land mines.
>
> Mine awareness campaigns and emergency clearance in places like
> schools and markets must be the priority of teams in Kosovo, he
> added.
>
> Steinberg said the U.S government was committed to working with
> the United Nations, NATO and humanitarian organizations to ensure
> that the "tragedy already suffered by the Kosovars is not
> multiplied by the tragedy of numerous land mine accidents." ((c)
> 1999 Reuters)
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