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Truce frays as Obama, Romney navigate Sandy aftermath

President Barack Obama planned to tour superstorm Sandy's debris field and Mitt Romney plotted a return to campaigning, as high-stakes politics stirred back to life a week from election day.

US President Barack Obama gives a statement about the government's response to superstorm Sandy at the Red Cross in Washington on October 30. Obama planned to tour superstorm Sandy's debris field and Mitt Romney plotted a return to campaigning, as high-stakes politics stirred back to life a week from election day.

During an unprecedented 24-hour truce so close to a US presidential vote, the campaigns assessed the storm aftermath and how to squeeze the best use from fast dwindling days left in a race either man could still win.

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