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George W. Bush Opens Up About 2016 Race [Jason Horowitz & Maggie Haberman, NYT First Draft, April 26, 2015]
Former President George W. Bush offered rare, and broad-ranging, remarks Saturday night about current national security threats and the 2016 presidential campaign to a large audience of Jewish donors, suggesting that sanctions on Iran should not be lifted, that his last name was a burden to his brother, the likely presidential candidate Jeb Bush, and that Hillary Rodham Clinton, while “formidable,” was beatable.
LAS VEGAS – Former President George W. Bush offered rare, and broad-ranging, remarks Saturday night about current national security threats and the 2016 presidential campaign to a large audience of Jewish donors, suggesting that sanctions on Iran should not be lifted, that his last name was a burden to his brother, the likely presidential candidate Jeb Bush, and that Hillary Rodham Clinton, while “formidable,” was beatable.
Mr. Bush sat on stage for an hour-long question-and-answer session in front of a ballroom that included Sheldon Adelson, the Republican mega-donor who owns the Italian-themed Venetian hotel and casino that hosted the spring meeting of the Republican Jewish Coalition, of which Mr. Adelson is also a board member. Mr. Bush’s remarks come as his younger brother, Jeb, is on the verge of formally announcing his candidacy, after four months of aggressive fundraising.
At one point, according to more than a half-dozen guests leaving the ballroom and one attendee who transcribed remarks during the event, Mr. Bush was asked a winking question about the qualities he sought in a president. But instead of aggressively boosting his brother, who he described as capable, Mr. Bush acknowledged being a liability to his brother’s candidacy, noting that it was easy for his rivals to say in debates that we don’t need another Bush.
“He basically said being a Bush is a challenge” said Norm Coleman, a former senator from Minnesota and board member of the Republican Jewish Coalition, who attended the speech.
“He essentially said people don’t want dynasties in America,” recalled Elise Weingarten, another attendee. (The event, held behind closed doors, was off the record, with a “no notes” rule announced at the beginning.)
According to other attendees, Mr. Bush expressed a reluctance to enter the campaign fray, because it would be unhelpful to his brother, but also unseemly. “That’s why you won’t see me,” he said.
But on this evening, Mr. Bush, speaking in a relaxed, warm style with several humorous asides, was front and center as he received extended ovations. He spoke admiringly of the “good candidates” in the field, and reserved his political assessments for Mrs. Clinton, the Democratic frontrunner for the nomination who last campaigned to replace Mr. Bush in 2008.
Harvey Weingarten, another attendee, said that Mr. Bush said the former first lady faced a predicament in determining whether to seek distance or continuity with the Obama administration for which she served as secretary of state.
“It’s going to be hard for her to defend or support” the president’s legacy, Mr. Weinstein recalled Mr. Bush saying.
Given the current state of the world, the former president said, it’s tough either way.
He spoke dismissively of candidates who surrounded themselves with “sycophants” and bemoaned a culture built around a single person, or even a party. The goal, he stressed, should be about serving the national interest.
Mr. Bush, whose war in Iraq war eventually became deeply unpopular and fueled President Obama’s 2008 candidacy, weighed back in on the Middle East and the administration’s current pursuit of a nuclear deal with Iran, which was strongly opposed by most the people in the room.
He said he was skeptical about lifting sanctions against Iran at a time when its government seemed to be caving in, attendees said, and regretted the leverage the United States would lose as a result of lifting the sanctions. He questioned whether the Iranian president, Hassan Rouhani, under whom the current framework for a deal has been discussed, represents a new policy or a “new spokesman” for the old regime, Mr. Weingarten recalled. He said that Mr. Bush talked about how there is “no transparency in Iran,” because the supreme leader, and not the will of the people, picked the presidents.
And he was animated when speaking about the group calling itself the Islamic State, which he referred to as the “second act” of Al Qaeda.
Several attendees sensed a tacit critique of Mr. Obama and his failure to follow through on his threats to use force when Mr. Bush said “you gotta mean it” when talking tough, and that America’s allies and enemies needed to know where an American leader stood. He said also discussed his own approach in Iraq, saying he changed course when it was warranted.
“You call in the military and say, ‘Here’s my goal. What’s your plan to help me achieve that goal?'” he said, according to attendees. He said that when asked what had to be done with terrorists bent on America’s destruction, the answer was “well, you kill em,” several attendees recalled.
At other points, he cited Lindsey Graham, the senator from South Carolina and possible presidential candidate, as saying, “pulling out of Iraq was a strategic blunder,” but he also spoke warmly about how his granddaughter called him “jeffe,” and how the White House was a museum more than a home.
And Mr. Bush also appeared to work blue in the post-presidency. He told how President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia made fun of his small dog, Barney, by telling the American president, “You want to see a real dog?”
Mr. Putin called over his large dog, which the Russian leader apparently described as larger and more powerful. Mr. Bush recounted that he later told the same story to the Canadian prime minister, Stephen Harper, who he said replied, “You’re lucky all he did was show you his dog.”
For Jeb Bush Donors, Yoga Mats and Tesla Brochures [Michael Barbaro, NYT First Draft, April 26, 2015]
Jeb Bush’s fundraiser at 1 Hotel challenges a number of Republican Party perceptions.
MIAMI BEACH – This is not your grandfather’s Republican Party donor retreat.
Inside their hotel rooms here, top fundraisers for Jeb Bush will discover a brochure encouraging them to use complimentary electric cars made by Tesla, long a Republican Party bugaboo because of its federal tax subsidies.
They will find lime green yoga mats and a copy of the eco-friendly, left-leaning “Modern Farmer” magazine (Headline: “Can plant factories save us from climate change?”).
And they will be surrounded by flamboyant Floridian kitsch, from white shag pillows to Taschen books celebrating Andy Warhol.
Talk about challenging party perceptions.
The fetes that presidential candidates throw for their biggest moneymen and women are always telling affairs.
So what, if anything, can we learn about Mr. Bush’s likely presidential campaign from 1 Hotel in South Beach, the venue of the first major gathering of fundraisers, donors and supporters to his political action committee?
It’s All About The Future: The hotel oozes modernity. A single smartphone in every room controls the temperature, turns on the television, places telephone calls and fulfills in-room dining orders.
It’s Hyper-Green: There is a farmstand in the lobby. The linens are 100 percent organic. The mattresses are filled with hemp. The brochures (and even clothing hangers) in the room are made from recycled paper. Plus, there is that fleet of electric cars.
It’s Gay Friendly: It’s worth pausing to consider the geography: Mr. Bush chose to summon the biggest names in GOP fundraising to South Beach, the most flashy and colorful stretch of an already flashy and colorful city. On Saturday night, gay couples strolled hand-in-hand through the hotel’s lobby.
It’s A Work In Progress: The hotel is untested and unfinished. A “coming soon” sign hovers over the lobby, where a retail store remains unopened. The outdoor poolside bar lacks sufficient shelter from rain showers (a near-daily occurrence here), for which waiters repeatedly apologized on Saturday. And the staff are still undergoing (rather public) training: judging by the guest complaints overheard by this reporter, various luxuries, like promised evening turndown service, are not being fulfilled. (Memo to staff: the 7:30 p.m. scheduled turndown in this reporter’s room never happened.)
Rubio Makes First Iowa Visit as a 2016 Contender [Heather Haddon, WSJ Washington Wire, April 25, 2015]
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio promised to play hard in the Iowa caucuses and said that it was time for a fresh face to lead the U.S.
ANKENY, Iowa —Florida Sen. Marco Rubio promised to play hard in the Iowa caucuses and said that it was time for a fresh face to lead the U.S.
During his first appearance in Iowa since declaring his candidacy for president two weeks ago, the Republican senator said public policies should support faith when appropriate.
“No government policy should be anti-family or anti-religion or anti-faith or anti-community group,” Mr. Rubio said during an ice-cream social at a private home in this Des Moines suburb. “When we can, without interfering necessarily, our policy should strengthen those.”
In a short speech Saturday, Mr. Rubio said that American leadership needed to be strengthened abroad. He never attacked President Barack Obama or Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
He never referred to former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush by name but said it was time to push away from “the ideas and leaders of yesterday.” A long lineage of Bushes have served in elected office.
About 100 people came to see Mr. Rubio speak at the home of state Sen. Jack Whitver. Several attendees said they knew little about Mr. Rubio but had become curious about him since he formally declared his candidacy.
“There’s always some value to a new face,” said Doug  Brown, a 69-year-old agricultural engineer, who said he liked Mr. Rubio but wanted to know more about his stance on ethanol subsidies.
Messrs. Rubio and Whitver both fit a similar profile of young, rising Republican stars in their respective spheres. Mr. Whitver, 34 years old, was a star player on the Iowa State Cyclones football team and has risen quickly in Iowa state politics. He considered a run for Congress last year.
During the trip to Iowa, Mr. Rubio also met with the state’s largest paper and will speak before the Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition’s summit later Saturday.
“We are going to be here often. We want to win the caucuses in this state,” Mr. Rubio said Saturday. “We want to meet all your friends, all your family, everyone in your neighborhoods that is willing and open-minded about voting for us.”
At the summit Saturday, nine declared and potential presidential candidates will address some 1,200 activists across the evening, with each allotted about 30 minutes to speak on whatever topic they see fit. Mr. Rubio is slated to speak first.
I, Carly [Michael Warren, The Weekly Standard, April 25, 2015]
As Carly Fiorina prepares to run for president, strategists ask whether she will get lost in the noise or exceed expectations in Iowa and New Hampshire and gather enough momentum to contend for the nomination.
The Pemi-Baker Valley Republican Committee’s monthly all-you-can-eat spaghetti dinner isn’t the kind of place you expect to see a crowd. Especially one that includes college students, and on a Friday night, no less. But the American Legion on Main Street is hopping. Greeting guests at the door is Omer Ahern Jr., the committee’s round-faced, mutton-chopped executive vice president. And he’s ecstatic.
“Everybody’s excited,” Ahern says. “We’ve never had this many people here.”
The spaghetti is delicious, but the 100 or so people have really come for the evening’s guest speaker, Carly Fiorina. The former chief executive of technology giant Hewlett-Packard is quite a draw among Republicans these days. The woman who once graced the covers of business and tech magazines is now more likely to pop up on Fox News. More recently, she’s becoming a familiar face here in New Hampshire as she prepares to run for president of the United States. Sources close to Fiorina say she’ll make that announcement on May 4.
You get the sense candidates don’t often make their way north past Manchester, Concord, and Lake Winnipesaukee to this little town in the foothills of the White Mountains. And Ashland is a long way from Palo Alto, California, where Fiorina attended Stanford and, from 1999 to 2005, ran HP. But she seems right at home here, sidling up to an empty seat in the middle of the hall with her plate of spaghetti and meatballs, chatting with the locals. At one point, a loud burst of laughter erupts from her table as Fiorina regales the folks with a story between bites.
In her speech, she mentions working shortly after college as a temporary secretary. “Some of you will know what I mean when I say that the big technology breakthrough at that time, which we appreciated as secretaries, was the IBM Selectric typewriter.” Half the room, nearly all women in their sixties, looks at each other, nodding and clapping in recognition.
The people here eat up her personal journey, from medieval history major and law-school dropout to high-powered tech executive. They gasp in sympathy when she mentions the death of her stepdaughter to “the demons of addiction” and Fiorina’s own battle with cancer. They listen raptly as she identifies a “sense of disquiet” among Americans over the future of the country. Fiorina ticks the problems off—a stagnant economy, an out-of-touch federal government, a “web of dependence” that has captured too many citizens—building up to what’s supposed to be her most profound diagnosis.
“I think the American people also fear that we are missing something. I think what they think we’re missing is leadership.” She says it solemnly, but the Republican audience begins giggling at the most obvious assessment of Barack Obama ever uttered. Fiorina rolls with it. “Why, does that sound like an understatement?” she deadpans.
It’s an understatement to say that Fiorina has a difficult path to the White House. She’s never held public office, and her only political experience is losing the California Senate race in 2010 to Barbara Boxer. Real Clear Politics includes 12 current or likely GOP candidates on its average of primary polls, and Fiorina’s not one of them. That’s because most polling outfits don’t even ask about her. A Quinnipiac survey in late April found her support among primary voters at 1 percent, the same as two-term Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal—and the generic “someone else.” More than one Washington journalist I’ve talked with dismissed her candidacy before I could finish saying her name.
But there’s something intriguing about Candidate Fiorina. She’s a veteran of big business who rails against crony capitalism. She’s a modern, independent woman who’s unabashedly pro-life. Carly, as everyone knows her, is less Sarah Palin and more Ronald Reagan, a natural storyteller with a quick wit and an ear for emotional narratives.
“I fully expect I’ll be underestimated. I have been all my life,” she says in an interview. “What I need to do is perform.”
For the past several months Fiorina’s been performing nonstop. She wowed observers in January at the Iowa Freedom Summit, the first major event of the 2016 presidential cycle. While most possible candidates stuck to the biographical, Fiorina went after the big target: Hillary Clinton. She was a hit.
“Like Hillary Clinton, I too have traveled hundreds and thousands of miles around the globe, but unlike her, I’ve actually accomplished something,” Fiorina said, in what’s become a staple applause line. “You see, Mrs. Clinton, flying is not an accomplishment. It is an activity.”
Sometimes, Fiorina doesn’t even have to make the comparison herself. In New Hampshire, a male voter says he can’t wait to see Fiorina face off against Clinton, womano a womano, in a general election debate. “I just think that would be awesome,” Fiorina replies, and the crowd agrees.
“What Hillary Clinton desperately wants to talk about is that she gets to be the first woman president. What she desperately wants to talk about is there’s a war on women. What she desperately wants to talk about is playing the gender card,” Fiorina continues. “If I am standing next to her on a general election debate stage, she can’t talk about any of those things. You know what she’s going to have to talk about? Her track record.”
True, but so would Fiorina, specifically her record as CEO of Hewlett-Packard. Books have been written about Fiorina’s tumultuous tenure at the top of one of the world’s largest technology firms. Fiorina says she’d run on her performance at HP, not away from it. “We doubled the company from $45 billion to $90 billion,” she told Fox News’s Bret Baier recently. “We went from market laggard in every product category to market leader in every product category and in every market in which we competed.”
Critics—and there are legions of them, from Silicon Valley to Wall Street—say her six-year term at HP was a disaster. Falling stock prices and massive layoffs dominated her last years at the company. A controversial 2001 merger with Compaq, which was nearly killed by a shareholder uprising led by the son of cofounder Bill Hewlett, irreparably damaged her image within the company. After several quarters of disappointing stock performance, the board fired Fiorina. HP’s stock recovered considerably in the following years, though, while competitors like Dell and IBM struggled, suggesting Fiorina’s strategy may have paid off after all.
Despite her ugly exit from HP, Fiorina’s time there figures large in her campaign pitch. She reminds crowds that as the leader of a multinational corporation, she’s met with dozens of foreign leaders. “I’ve sat across the table from Vladimir Putin,” Fiorina often says. Heading a large company attuned her to the inherent problems of large systems. “Virtually everything I spent my time on was ‘How do we bust up this bureaucracy?’ ” Fiorina says of her CEO days. That sounds like a presidential campaign theme.
“This is a government that has become so big, so powerful, so costly, so complex, so corrupt, it no longer serves the people,” she says. “It is the weight of government, the power of government, the complexity of government that literally now is crushing the potential of this nation.” A Fiorina administration, she promises, would “reimagine government” for the purpose of “unlocking potential” in the American people.
Some of the details of “reimagining government” are easier to pin down than others. Fiorina espouses an “influence through strength” view on foreign policy, arguing that rebuilding the Navy’s Sixth Fleet and restarting our missile-defense programs in Eastern Europe would “send a message” to Vladimir Putin and other bad actors in the world. The Obama administration should abandon its nuclear talks with Iran, and Congress should do everything it can now and in the future to maintain the sanctions regime until Tehran gets serious about stopping its nuclear ambitions. She supports female soldiers in combat roles—“Israel’s been doing it for years”—but also says standards shouldn’t be lowered.
To cut domestic spending, she says, Congress should adopt zero-based budgeting to eliminate bad and duplicate programs. But on entitlement spending, she’s less urgent. “When we are satisfied that we don’t have hundreds upon hundreds of billions of dollars of waste, abuse, and corruption, then let’s start talking about raising the retirement age for Social Security,” she says. Tax reform should simplify the code and help reduce the deficit, but Fiorina is wary of plans like Marco Rubio’s that increase the child tax credit. “If you’re a single person or a young married couple, and you’re trying to work your way up, you’re going to be hit with a big tax bill,” she says.
On immigration, Fiorina says she prioritizes border security and reforming the worker-visa program. She also draws a line when it comes to illegal immigrants. “If you have come here illegally, and you have stayed here illegally, you never get to earn the privilege of citizenship,” she says. “It’s not fair. Maybe you get to earn legal status, maybe your children can become citizens, but citizenship is a privilege to be earned.”
Her positions put her smack dab in the mainstream of the Republican party. That can mean one of two things. Fiorina will get lost in the noise, overtaken by the better known, more politically experienced options. Or, as Fiorina’s strategists have put it, she can take the role of consensus conservative, exceed expectations in Iowa and New Hampshire, and gather enough momentum to contend for the nomination. Then again, many assume she’s actually angling for the number-two spot on the Republican ticket. Is Fiorina running for vice president?
“People ask that because I’m a woman and I’m not a politician,” she says. “I’m running to be president.”

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Death toll in Nepal quake exceeds 2,200 [Annie Gowen, Rama Lakshmi, & Anup Kaphle, WaPo, April 26, 2015]
Nearly 24 hours after a devastating earthquake shook Nepal, killing more than 2,200, workers were still trying to rescue victims in rural areas of the Himalayan nation and atop Mount Everest, efforts that were complicated by weather and recurring aftershocks that kept the country on edge.
ITANAGAR, India — Nearly 24 hours after a devastating earthquake shook Nepal, killing more than 2,200, workers were still trying to rescue victims in rural areas of the Himalayan nation and atop Mount Everest, efforts that were complicated by weather and recurring aftershocks that kept the country on edge.
After Saturday’s 7.8-magnitude earthquake left a trail of devastation across the region, Nepal’s capital had become a tent city, as thousands of residents displaced stayed in their dark gardens and out on the cracked streets and lanes, afraid to go back inside because of waves of aftershocks. They remained there out of fear Sunday as day dawned. The most recent tremor happened east of the capital Sunday afternoon, registering 6.7 on the Richter scale, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
The situation was worse in the villages outside the capital city that rescue crews had yet to reach, and hospitals around the region struggled to cope with an estimated 4,000 injured.
“I am stuck about [372 miles] northwest of Kathmandu in a village,” Ghanshayam Pandey, who runs a small aid agency, said in a telephone interview. “The deaths and injuries are overwhelming. We felt new tremors at 1 p.m. Nepal time. And it is raining off and on. It's terrible.”
The biggest challenge is that rescuers still don’t have reliable information about what’s going on in areas outside Kathmandu, including how many people are still trapped, according O.P. Singh, the director general of India’s National Disaster Response Force.
The number of dead in the Nepal quake rises further while survivors struggle to find shelter. (Reuters)
“Where are they? No assessment has been done,” Singh said.
After Sunday afternoon’s aftershock, large aircraft headed to Kathmandu’s Tribhuvan International Airport carrying some rescue personnel and aid workers — as well as some journalists — had to head back to New Delhi because it was not safe to land, forcing a delay in relief efforts.
As rescue operations had continued through the night, relief agencies geared up for a humanitarian response to meet shelter, food, clean water and sanitation needs.
“The situation is quite bad, and the cold weather is not going to help,” said Tony Castleman, the country head of Catholic Relief Services in New Delhi, where workers were planning to ship blankets and other supplies. “It’s going to be tough to sleep in the open.”
It was unclear whether Sunday afternoon’s tremor would affect rescue operations on Mount Everest, where emergency personnel had begun airlifting critically ill climbers by helicopter from the base camp Sunday morning. Col. Rohan Anand, a spokesman for the Indian Army, said that at least 20 people had died and others were missing after the earthquake triggered a massive avalanche that swept through the camp of the world’s highest peak.
It had been a pleasant Saturday morning, with families just sitting down to lunch and tourists thronging to Kathmandu’s Durbar Square when the temblor hit, a horrible rocking motion that seemed to go on without end. The quake was ultimately felt across South Asia — in Lahore, in New Delhi, in Dhaka. Snow avalanched down Mount Everest. Buildings fell, mud-joined huts collapsed. By the end of the night, more than 1,900 lay dead, the Nepalese Home Ministry said, with countless more injured.
And another kind of death: Durbar Square — the historic heart of Kathmandu, filled with temples centuries old — lay in ruins. More than 100 people were killed at that site alone. The iconic Dharahara tower fell, too. “There’s nothing left,” one despairing survivor told CNN-IBN, an Indian news channel.
Earthquake in Nepal View Graphic
“We never imagined that we would face such devastation,” Nepal’s information minister, Minendra Rijal, said at an evening news conference — even though Kathmandu ranks high on a list of the world’s cities most likely to experience a devastating earthquake. He said schools would be closed for five days in affected areas. He encouraged people to conserve fuel by not driving and urged pharmacies to stay open all night so that the injured could have ­access to first-aid supplies and medicine.
In Washington, Secretary of State John F. Kerry said the United States authorized an initial $1 million for emergency humanitarian needs. USAID is preparing to send a disaster-response team and is likely to also send a specialized urban search-and-rescue team, the State Department said.
“To the people in Nepal and the region affected by this tragedy we send our heartfelt sympathies,” Kerry said. “The United States stands with you during this difficult time.”
National Security Council spokeswoman Bernadette Meehan also expressed condolences and said the United States “stands ready to assist the government and people of Nepal and the ­region further.”
The Israeli army said in a statement Saturday that it would send military airplanes filled with equipment and personnel to assist in rescue efforts in Nepal, including medical, search-and-rescue and logistical professionals.
Countries such as Sri Lanka and Pakistan also moved to help. India dispatched planes and rescue personnel with three tons of supplies and a mobile hospital, and 15 helicopters were to arrive Sunday. Nepal appealed to China for aid.
As Nepalese emergency personnel and volunteers worked to pull bodies from the rubble, hospitals and rescue crews were quickly overwhelmed. Patients from neighboring areas flooded Kathmandu’s medical facilities, and traffic clogged damaged roads, hindering relief efforts.
At Kathmandu Medical College and Teaching Hospital, staff were doing what they could to triage patients, said Patrick Adams, a freelance multimedia journalist who described the scene. Many were still covered in soot. Broken limbs were quickly splinted with cardboard. The worst cases were taken directly to surgery. The 11-bed intensive-care unit could not handle the influx. The dead were lined up on the pavement outside; many had been crushed.
“One woman was shrieking over her dead husband, climbing over him, pulling his face to hers, refusing to be led away,” Adams recounted.
Shops around Kathmandu ran low on bottled water, food and phone cards. Eventually, many closed. Mosques, temples and youth centers opened shelters, and the government set up tents and began distributing food.
Families huddled together as night fell. A chill passed over the devastated city, and rain was on the way. People worried about aftershocks. There had ­been dozens.
“We’re very afraid,” said Lhakpa Sherpa, a Mount Everest guide staying outside his home in the capital with his wife and daughter. “We can still feel the shakes.”
In the Tahachal neighborhood, a 66-year-old cellphone distributor named Laxmi Narayan was camped outside with his wife, two sons, a brother, sister-in-law and two nephews. He was still reeling from the shock on what had been such an ordinary day, from the chaos that descended as he sat at his desk on his half-day at work.
It was an ordeal just trying to reach his family afterward, he said. “The roads were cracking before us.”
Now he was wondering what the coming hours would bring.
“We have no food, no water or electricity. There is no TV or radio service that can keep us updated on what is happening. We are too scared to go back into our homes,” Laxmi said. “The army is trying to rescue people, but the government is helpless. The government is not at all equipped to handle a calamity of this magnitude. We need help from people who have experience to handle this kind of situation.”
It seemed as if Saturday’s temblor was the earthquake everybody in Nepal had long feared — the big one. The last time such a terrible quake occurred was in 1934, when an estimated 8,000 people were killed. But the country’s disaster preparedness was so uneven and its earthquake likelihood so dire that the U.N. Office for Disaster Risk Reduction issued a report in 2012 that called Nepal “a tragedy in waiting.”
The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake hit at 11:56 a.m. in Lamjung and was considered a “shallow quake,” which can be worse than deeper temblors. It was the largest shallow quake since the 8.2 temblor off the coast of Chile on April 1, 2014.
The earthquake also caused loss of life and damage in other countries. At least 34 people died in India, and casualties were reported in Tibet and Bangladesh. India’s foreign secretary, S. Jaishankar, said in a news conference that a building at the Indian Embassy complex in Nepal collapsed and the daughter of an employee had been killed.
One key area of need is medical care and supplies.


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