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Former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier waves to the media at the Toussaint Louverture international airport in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Sunday, Jan. 16, 2011. Duvalier returned Sunday to Haiti after nearly 25 years in exile, a surprising and perplexing move that comes as his country struggles with a political crisis and the stalled effort to recover from last year's devastating earthquake.(AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)

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A man injured during a landslide is carried in Nova Friburgo, Brazil, on Sunday. Survivors carried food, water and blankets to friends and relatives still stranded in remote, stricken villages. (Associated Press)

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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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Freelance woman war correspondent Jurate Kazickas, from New Rochelle, N.Y., comforts a wounded U.S. Marine after he was hit near the South Vietnamese village of Con Thien, July 4, 1967. The Marines were moving into an area near the demilitarized zone to recover Marine bodies when they were hard hit by North Vietnamese in the Vietnam War. (AP Photo/Henri Huet)

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A woman of the Montagnard tribe cradles a baby as members of the tribe are relocated from Bu Lack village in September 1968. The Montagnards were being transported to a refugee camp. (AP Photo/Henri Huet)

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Water-filled bomb craters from B-52 strikes against the Viet Cong mark the rice paddies and orchards west of Saigon, Vietnam, 1966. Most of the area has been abandoned by the peasants who used to farm on the land. (AP Photo/Henri Huet)

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American infantrymen crowd into a mud-filled bomb crater and look up at tall jungle trees seeking out Viet Cong snipers firing at them during a battle in Phuoc Vinh, north-Northeast of Saigon in Vietnam's War Zone D, June 15, 1967. (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 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)