Police Step Up Evacuation of New Orleans (AP)
7th Sep 2005, 21:32 GMT
AP - Using friendly persuasion backed by the threat of force, police and soldiers went house to house Wednesday to try to coax the last 10,000 or so stubborn holdouts to leave storm-shattered New Orleans because of the risk of disease from the putrid, sewage-laden floodwaters.
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