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| | CNN - Venezuelan official: 200 dead, 7,000 missing in floods - December 17, 1999 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30) |
 | | Venezuela's main international airport, at Maiquetia, near La Guaira, 56 kilometers (35 miles) north of Caracas, was converted into a field hospital. |
 | | The highway connecting Simon Bolivar International Airport to Caracas remained largely blocked, and all commercial flights were canceled for another day. |
 | | Carlos Gonzalez, a security guard at the airport who is now homeless because of the flash floods, said his neighborhood is now "a sea of mud, there are no houses left, nothing." |
| www.cnn.com /1999/WORLD/americas/12/17/venezuela.floods.06/index.html (582 words) |
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