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Edition: U.S. Article Slideshow Video Save Email Print Reprints Most Popular Most Shared In blow to Obama, Republican wins in Massachusetts 1:44am EST Senate not seen passing climate bill in 2010 19 Jan 2010 NEWSMAKER-Baidu founder rules China's Web with pragmatism 19 Jan 2010 Q+A: What the Massachusetts upset means to Obama agenda 19 Jan 2010 Iran spurns nuclear fuel deal in writing: diplomats 19 Jan 2010 In blow to Obama, Republican wins in Massachusetts 1:44am EST SPECIAL REPORT:Divorce American style for French bank, bond star 19 Jan 2010 Kraft snares Cadbury for $19.6 billion 19 Jan 2010 Fish oil protects against cellular aging: study 19 Jan 2010 Senate not seen passing climate bill in 2010 19 Jan 2010 Haiti violence fears lift, U.S. troops help deliver aid Catherine Bremer and Joseph Guyler Delva Wed Jan 20, 2010 12:27am EST Factbox Factbox: U.S. military mobilizes for Haiti relief Tue, Jan 19 2010 Related News Doctors group complains Haiti supplies diverted Tue, Jan 19 2010 U.N. agrees to send 3,500 more peacekeepers to Haiti Tue, Jan 19 2010 U.S. choppers land troops in heart of Haiti capital Tue, Jan 19 2010 Plush Haitian golf club houses 50,000 refugees Tue, Jan 19 2010 Paris Club says others must cancel Haiti debt Tue, Jan 19 2010 Haiti information service launched by Thomson Reuters Foundation Tue, Jan 19 2010 Donors must stick with Haiti: World Bank chief Tue, Jan 19 2010 Haitians look to Obama to keep hopes alive Tue, Jan 19 2010 Haiti's Preval, a survivor in turbulent land Tue, Jan 19 2010 France plays down reported rift with U.S. over Haiti Tue, Jan 19 2010 Timeline: Quake devastates stricken Haiti's capital Tue, Jan 19 2010 Scenarios: What comes next for the U.S. and Haiti? Tue, Jan 19 2010 Foreign adoption of Haitian children "last resort": U.N Tue, Jan 19 2010 Haiti's environment needs long-term help: experts Tue, Jan 19 2010 Fuel shortages cause jams at Haiti gas stations Tue, Jan 19 2010 Israeli surgeon in Haiti allows a crack of emotion Tue, Jan 19 2010 SNAPSHOT: Haiti Earthquake Tue, Jan 19 2010 Aid slowest reaching rural Haitians at quake center Tue, Jan 19 2010 Related Video More peacekeepers for Haiti Tue, Jan 19 2010 Haiti amputations at record level Haiti unrest grows Bill Clinton tours Haiti hospital US troops in Port-au-Prince < 1 / 13 > View Full Size PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Fears of violence and looting eased in earthquake-devastated Haiti as U.S. troops provided security for water and food aid deliveries, and thousands of displaced Haitians heeded the government's advice to seek shelter outside Port-au-Prince. World | Natural Disasters Medical care, handling of corpses, shelter, water, food and sanitation remain the priorities for the international operations, U.N. relief officials said a week after the magnitude 7.0 earthquake rocked Haiti. While military escorts are still needed to deliver relief supplies, the United Nations said security problems were mainly in areas considered "high risk" before the January 12 quake. Some 4,000 criminals escaped from damaged prisons soon after the temblor hit. "The overall security situation in Port-au-Prince remains stable, with limited, localized violence and looting occurring," the U.N. Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said. U.S. Black Hawk helicopters swooped down on the grounds of Haiti's wrecked presidential palace on Tuesday, deploying troops and supplies and immediately attracting crowds of survivors who clamored for handouts of food. Around 12,000 U.S. military personnel are on the ground in Haiti, on ships offshore or en route, including the USNS Comfort hospital ship, which was to arrive in the area on Wednesday, providing essential capacity for complex surgeries. At least one Latin American leader, Venezuela's socialist President Hugo Chavez, a fiery critic of what he calls U.S. "imperialism," has already accused Washington of "occupying" Haiti under the pretext of an aid operation. But Haitian President Rene Preval has said U.S. troops will help U.N. peacekeepers keep order. In a bid to speed the arrival of aid and stem looting and violence, the U.N. Security Council this week unanimously agreed to temporarily add 2,000 U.N. troops and 1,500 police to the 9,000-member peacekeeping mission in Haiti. Watching the soldiers, quake survivor Gille Frantz said: "We know the world wants to help us, but it has been eight days now and I have not seen any food or water for my family." The World Food Programme, which has fed 200,000 quake victims, aims to move the equivalent of 10 million ready-to-eat meals in the next week, the U.N. said. An additional 130,000 have been fed by other relief groups. OUTSIDE PORT-AU-PRINCE Soldiers spread out to other ravaged towns outside the capital, to Leogane to the west and Jacmel on the southern coast, to guard and supply aid distribution points there. In Leogane, the epicenter of the violent quake, the lack of advanced medical facilities prevented many severely injured from getting life-saving surgeries. "Even before all this drama the hospitals here barely functioned," said Joel Beaubrun as he watched a U.S. military food drop. "You can imagine what it's like now." International health experts stressed that the efforts in Haiti cannot stop once the immediate crisis is passed. "This is about stepping to the plate to the long run," Jon Andrus of the Pan American Health Organization said on Tuesday. Doctors Without Borders said its cargo plane with 12 tons of medical supplies had been turned away from the congested Port-au-Prince airport three times since Sunday, and five patients died for lack of the supplies it carried. "We were forced to buy a saw in the market to continue amputations," said Loris de Filippi, emergency coordinator for the group's Choscal Hospital in Cite Soleil. Haitian officials say the death toll from the quake was likely to be between 100,000 and 200,000, and that 75,000 bodies had already been buried in mass graves. So far, feared infectious diseases have not shown up, although many injured faced the immediate threats of tetanus and gangrene, and hospitals were overwhelmed. The World Health Organization said at least 13 hospitals were working in the Port-au-Prince area and it was bringing in medical supplies to treat 120,000 people over the next month. "We are not past the emergency phase yet, but we are starting to look at the long term," said Margaret Aguirre of the International Medical Corps, whose staff had helped with 150 amputations so far. Some 90 people have been pulled from the rubble by the 52 rescue teams from around the world, and untold numbers of others by Haitians digging through collapsed buildings. Racing against time, they hoped for a repeat miracle like that of an elderly woman pulled out on Tuesday from the rubble around the National Cathedral. "I felt her grab my hand and squeeze. I felt as if God were squeezing my hand," said an emotional Javier Vazquez, the rescue crew member from Mexico who reached her. SOME SIGNS OF NORMALITY U.N. relief officials said thousands of survivors were heeding the government's plea that they move to friends and family in safer areas outside the earthquake zone. Royal Caribbean Cruises has resumed its stops at its private beach on the north coast of Labadee. One sign of the return to normality was the emergence of street vendors selling fruit, vegetables and charcoal, though tens of thousands of survivors still clamored for help and supplies of staples were scarce and costly. Although damaged local banks were not reopening yet, the United Nations said there were plans for them to open 30 to 40 distribution points so people could access accounts. Fuel prices have doubled, and there were long lines of cars, motorbikes and people with jerrycans outside gas stations. Haitian police stood guard at some. The World Food Programme was planning to bring in 10,000 gallons (40,000 liters) of diesel a day from neighboring Dominican Republic. Troops were working to reopen the shattered seaport in Port-au-Prince so fuel and supplies could be brought in by ship. They also planned to open additional airbridges, using a runway at Jacmel and the San Isidro air base in the Dominican Republic. Citing Haiti's water shortages, U.S. Agency for International Development head Rajiv Shah told reporters world aid needed to focus on longer term development. "I think 70,000 bottles have already been distributed, of outside water, but the main effort is about creating sustainable local production," he said at the White House. World leaders have promised massive assistance to rebuild Haiti and Preval appealed to donors to focus not just on immediate aid for Haitians but also on long-term development of the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere. World Bank President Robert Zoellick said on Tuesday the devastation gave the "opportunity to build back better." "First and foremost that means that when the cameras leave, the donors don't leave with them," he told Reuters. Experiences in countries hit by war and disasters also showed that aid should be in the form of grants and not loans, and should be pooled in a multi-donor trust fund managed by the World Bank, he said. (Additional reporting by Carlos Barria, Andrew Cawthorne, Catherine Bremer, Tom Brown in Port-au-Prince, Stephanie Nebehay in Geneva, Lesley Wroughton and Tabassum Zakaria in Washington; writing by Jackie Frank; editing by Mohammad Zargham) World Natural Disasters More from Reuters IBM raises outlook but investors wary after rally NEW YORK (Reuters) - IBM raised its 2010 profit target and reported a stronger-than-expected, 9 percent increase in fourth-quarter earnings, as cost cuts and a shift to more profitable contracts helped it weather a slump in corporate spending. 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