As cyclone bore down, Vanuatu president, disaster officials left for conference

SENDAI, Japan/SYDNEY, March 16 (Reuters) - When Vanuatu President Baldwin Lonsdale and top disaster officials left their South Pacific island home on March 10, heading to a U.N. summit in Japan, Cyclone Pam was gathering strength and dumping heavy rain to the north.

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