31.   Its supporters appealed for a humanitarian gesture toward people suffering with an incurable illness.

32.   Jordan, as well as the Clinton administration, has painted the release as a humanitarian gesture.

33.   Netanyahu decided to make the money available as a humanitarian gesture, said his spokesman, Shai Bazak.

34.   President Bush is sending a letter to the wife of the missing Chinese fighter pilot as a humanitarian gesture, Secretary of State Colin Powell said Sunday.

35.   Public opinion is building in South Korea against giving further aid to the North because of its failure to reciprocate previous South Korean humanitarian gestures.

36.   Putin pardoned him as a humanitarian gesture.

37.   President Bush is sending a letter to the wife of the missing Chinese fighter pilot as a humanitarian gesture, U.S. officials said Sunday.

38.   Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin allowed their entrance as a humanitarian gesture in answer to a direct plea from PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat, the report said.

39.   Rebels from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, say the offer is a humanitarian gesture and an ice-breaker to get peace talks going.

40.   The government refused, saying the policeman should be released as a humanitarian gesture.