Pubdate: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 Source: Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel (FL) Copyright: 2000 Sun-Sentinel Company Contact: http://www.sun-sentinel.com/services/letters_editor.htm Website: http://www.sun-sentinel.com/ Forum: http://www.sun-sentinel.com/community/interact1.htm Author: Bianca Sommella Note: The author of this LTE contrasts the billion dollar drug war aid package promised to Colombia with the newspaper photograph of a Chechen boy who nibbles at bread, brought as humanitarian aid to the refugees on the Chechen-Ingush border. -- Editor SPENDING PRIORITIES Re the International front page and photograph of Jan. 9: Where do our responsibilities lie when a hungry child in a country torn by war is given a loaf of bread whilst our elected president could give away $1 billion to a fight that will never be won? Wake up, America! Bianca Sommella Cooper City - --- MAP posted-by: Eric Ernst