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CG Rescues Scores as Haitian Boat Sinks

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28 Jul

The U.S. Coast Guard used boats, airplanes and a helicopter to search the warm, shallow waters off the Turks and Caicos Islands on Tuesday for some 70 Haitians believed missing after their overloaded sailboat capsized. Rescuers pulled 113 survivors from reefs, and police recovered 11 bodies.

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