Posted by
Dawnsblood on Tuesday, October 03, 2006 7:50:25 PM
American donors step up to
help:
Businesses and people around the country are
digging into their pockets to help four Alaska villages whose tribal
leaders rejected a heating-fuel gift from the president of Venezuela,
Hugo Chavez, a critic of President George Bush.
Donations, including a huge one from several
fishing companies, have been so numerous there might be enough to
replace the gift -- and then some.
"The response has been overwhelming," said
Dimitri Philemonof, president of the Aleutian Pribilof Islands
Association, a nonprofit representing villages in Southwest Alaska.