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Money comes between charities, terror victims: Red Cross another black eye.

Non-profit Times, The, December, 2001 by Williamson, Richard

At Ground Zero in lower Manhattan, the remnants of the World Trade Center are now known as "the pile." While emotions have run high there, leading to physical confrontations between firefighters and police over access to the site, they are also reaching fever pitch over the pile of money raised to help victims of the September 11 terrorist attacks.

At the same time, thousands of pints of blood donated for potential victims will go to waste because the American Red Cross (ARC) could not manage the unprecedented surplus.

And, in a stunning reversal, the ARC announced that 100 percent of the $543 million in the controversial liberty Fund would go to the needs of September 11 terror victims and surviving families.

In confrontations that challenge...

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