Bleak camp awaits flood of Afghan refugees

Sunday, July 28, 2002

ZHARE DASHT, Afghanistan -- Clouds of ochre dust swirled around U.N. officials as they surveyed a barren, sunbaked expanse where thousands of Afghan refugees are expected to live as soon as next week.

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