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The delivery received a warm welcome from the local populace and many thanks from town leaders. BAGHDAD, Iraq, July 28, 2005 — Elements of 4th Battalion, 64th Armor Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division provided food, cooking utensils and cleaning supplies July 22 to residents of Kindi, a neighborhood north of the International Zone. The supplies were delivered in the form of a Rhode pack, a sustenance package of more than one ton of food and supplies that included rice, beans, canned fish and meat, vegetables, cooking oil, dessert treats, pots and pans, serving utensils, and propane stoves....

A Plainview man who stole eight cans of Spam worth $23.92 last year will pay for it with a year in prison. Ricardo Ramirez, 34, made the mistake of stealing the food -- normally a misdemeanor -- when he had two prior felony convictions for theft for which he spent a total of 23 months in jail, said First Assistant District Attorney Mark Hocker. Ramirez had only been out of state jail for 11 days when he was nabbed for stealing the Spam from a convenience store about 2:45 a.m. on Jan. 18.