21.   Eritrea has reportedly sent large shipments of arms and ammunition to Aidid and the Ethiopian rebels in recent months.

22.   Feed My Sheep, a Metairie-based group, is sending large shipments of food, clothing and medicine to refugees.

23.   In an extraordinary session Sunday, the Serbian government decided to send urgent shipments of humanitarian aid to population in flooded regions.

24.   It also sends daily shipments of humanitarian aid, including food, blankets, medicines and tents.

25.   It had sent shipments of food and medicine during the four-year war in Bosnia.

26.   Kris Janowski, spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, said a second aid shipment will be sent by road next week.

27.   Small shipments also were sent through the Puerto Rico post office, Jimenez said.

28.   Shipments are sent six or seven times a year, mostly via the Panama Canal, said Shigekazu Matsuura of the Science and Technology Agency.

29.   The customs committee did not say which Japanese company had sent the shipment or who in China was to receive it.

30.   The Chilean government on Thursday sent a shipment of tents, cots and bedding, disposable diapers and tanks of drinking water to the disaster site.