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U.S. Army helicopters providing support for U.S. ground troops fly into a staging area fifty miles northeast of Saigon, Vietnam, 1966. Helicopter fuel is stored in the large rubber tanks, foreground. (AP Photo/Henri Huet)
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The body of an American paratrooper killed in action in the jungle near the Cambodian border is raised up to an evacuation helicopter in War Zone C, Vietnam, 1966. (AP Photo/Henri Huet)
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Children are evacuated from school due to flooding in Geraardsbergen, 25 miles south west of Brussels, Belgium, Friday Jan.14, 2011. Heavy rainfall is threatening flooding all over the country. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)
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The Dender river breaks its banks as it floods parts of Geraardsbergen, 25 miles south west of Brussels, Belgium, Friday Jan. 14, 2011. Heavy rainfall is threatening flooding all over the country. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)
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Residents watch from their front door as an extractor pump removes flood water from a house, in a flooded street in Geraardsbergen, 25 miles south west of Brussels, Belgium, Friday Jan.14, 2011. Heavy rainfall is threatening flooding all over the country. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)
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A car is submerged by water in a flooded street in Deux-Acren, 32 miles south west of Brussels, Belgium, Friday Jan.14, 2011. Heavy rainfall is threatening flooding all over the country. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)
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A woman opens her front door as she is surrounded by water in Deux-Acren, 32 miles south west of Brussels, Belgium, Friday Jan.14, 2011. Heavy rainfall is threatening flooding all over the country. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)
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A road block is set up at a flooded street in Deux-Acren, 32 miles south west of Brussels, Belgium, Friday Jan.14, 2011. Heavy rainfall is threatening flooding all over the country. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)
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A firefighter talks with residents in a flooded street in Geraardsbergen, 25 miles south west of Brussels, Belgium, Friday Jan.14, 2011, as an extractor pump sprays water from the sandbagged area, protecting houses, back into the river, foreground. Heavy rainfall is threatening flooding all over the country. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)
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The road is flooded at a junction near Deux-Acren, 32 miles south west of Brussels, Belgium, Friday Jan.14, 2011. Heavy rainfall is threatening flooding all over the country. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)
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Firetrucks and emergency vehicles are parked near a U.S. Postal Service mail facility in northeast Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2011. A fire department spokesman said a suspicious package reported at the mail facility was not a threat. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
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A rescue worker walks among debris after landslides at Caleme neighborhood in Teresopolis, Brazil, Thursday, Jan. 13, 2011. Driving rains sent tons of rusty red earth sliding into Brazilian mountain towns, killing hundreds of people. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
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People walk among debris after landslides at Caleme neighborhood in Teresopolis, Brazil, Thursday, Jan. 13, 2011. Driving rains sent tons of rusty red earth sliding into Brazilian mountain towns, killing hundreds of people and leaving dozens more missing _ lives rescuers hoped to save as they resumed searches Thursday. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
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Cars sit in debris in a flooded street in Teresopolis, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil, Wednesday Jan. 12, 2011. Torrential summer rains tore through Rio de Janeiro state's mountains, killing more than 300 people. (AP Photo/Roberto Ferreira, Agencia O Dia)
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People stand on the porch of their home at the edge of landslide damage in the Caleme neighborhood in Teresopolis, Brazil, Thursday, Jan. 13, 2011. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
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Rescue workers search for survivors in collapsed homes destroyed by flooding in the Nova Friburgo municipality of Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil, Wednesday Jan. 12, 2011. Torrential summer rains tore through Rio de Janeiro state's mountains, killing more than 300 people. (AP Photo/Gerson Goncalo, Agencia O Dia)