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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Hundreds of Haitians stood in long lines Saturday, just as others had walked for hours throughout the week to receive the U.N. and regional food aid pouring into the country after a spate of deadly riots.

But amid the tenuous calm, aid groups say they are just buying time — and long-term solutions seem remote in the desperately poor nation.

Haitian officials handed out 1,000 bags of U.N.-bought food Saturday in Cite Soleil, a huge seaside slum on the eastern edge of the capital. Aid was limited to women older than 57 and the handicapped.

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