Myanmar accepts more US help for cyclone survivors

"There is obviously still a lot of frustration that this aid effort hasn't picked up pace and gotten under way as quickly as it should have," said Richard Horsey, the spokesman of the U.N. humanitarian operation in Bangkok, Thailand.

He said the U.N.'s World Food Program is getting in 20 percent of the food aid needed. "That is a characterization of the program as a whole. We are not reaching enough people quickly enough," he said.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has also criticized the military leaders for their "unacceptably slow response" to the crisis.

Hundreds of tons of aid has been flown in from around the world, including by the U.N., but the poorly equipped Yangon airport is incapable of processing the cargo quickly enough. The logistics of moving the aid out are causing other bottlenecks with the junta insisting on using only the few helicopters it has at its disposal.

After Myanmar allowed a U.S. Air Force C-130 cargo plane into its main city, Yangon, on Monday, the United States sent in one more cargo plane Tuesday with 19,900 pounds of blankets, water and mosquito netting. A third flight was to take in a 24,750-pound load.

U.S. Marine Lt. Col. Douglas Powell said the situation remains fluid, but that flights were expected to continue after Tuesday, which appears to broaden the original agreement for three flights on Monday and Tuesday.

On Monday, Myanmar told the United States _-the fiercest critic of the junta's human rights record -that basic needs of the storm victims are being fulfilled and that "skillful humanitarian workers are not necessary."

President Bush later told CBS News that the world should be angry and condemn the military government.

"Here they are with a major catastrophe on their hands, and (they) do not allow there to be the full kind of might of a compassionate world to help them," Bush said.

The U.S. military, which has already brought forces to the region for its annual Cobra Gold exercise, has 11,000 troops, at least four ships and potentially dozens of cargo planes nearby that are ready to start assistance operations.