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like. TV pictures can't do justice to the enormity of what you see. They can't bring across the overwhelming scale of a disaster - collapsed buildings, rubble, bodies, survivors. And, of course, they can't convey the overpowering smellsdusk - walking past the bodies covered by the pink and yellow blankets. No-one paid any attention to them. The scale of this earthquake is staggering. I imagine it'll be a long time before we really get to know how many people have diedincursions. I was taught how to live for several days in a plastic tent in the event of chemical or biological war (the bathroom instructions were not fun.) I interviewed Yasser Arafat - who kept on shouting at me to remember that I was speaking to
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