51.   The money was used to pay for the relief packages and other vital supplies.

52.   The mortar attack struck near the entrance to a tunnel under the airport that is a vital supply route for soldiers and civilians in the city.

53.   The rebel Serbs want it so they can tighten their grip on a vital supply corridor linking their lands with Serbia proper.

54.   The pocket of land is sought by Serbs to widen a vital supply corridor linking their lands with Serbia proper.

55.   The region apparently ceded to the Serbs would allow them to broaden a vital supply corridor linking territory in western and eastern Bosnia.

56.   The rebel Serbs want it in order to tighten their grip on a vital supply corridor linking their lands with Serbia proper.

57.   The rebels besieged the Nagar Kovil military base late Friday and captured a vital supply route leading to the village market, the clandestine radio said.

58.   The valley served as an important terminus of the Ho Chi Minh Trail, the vital North Vietnamese supply line.

59.   Villagers in the mountains that crisscross this country would be most at risk should vital supply roads be blocked by snow, he said.

60.   He added that the military had secured a vital supply route to all its northern bases.