61.   The main opposition Grand National Party asked the government to withhold the food shipment unless North Korea agrees to resume the family reunion program at an early date.

62.   The Red Cross said Monday it will resume escorting government food shipments to the rebel-held north, where guerrillas have warned a famine is developing.

63.   The report is based on findings last month by the two Rome-based agencies, which have helped coordinate food shipments to the ravaged central African nation.

64.   The ship sightings raised concern, however, because Russian organized crime groups are believed to have infiltrated ports where the U.S. food shipments are delivered.

65.   The United Nations on Saturday sent the first food shipments to Afghanistan since terrorist attacks in the United States, a U.N. spokesman said.

66.   The vessel had stopped at Djibouti, in Africa across from the Arabian Peninsula, to drop off American grain as part of a food aid shipment.

67.   Their forces have blocked food shipments to Bihac in the northwest, said U.N. spokesman Kris Janowski.

68.   Thirty Cuban railway guards who looted food shipments they were supposed to protect have been sentenced to prison, the Communist Party daily Granma reported Saturday.

69.   Under the oil-for-food deal, U.N. observers will be stationed at Iraqi border points to inspect food shipments entering the country.

70.   U.N. officials say the United States fears that delays in food shipments will only serve to increase pressure to lift the sanctions for humanitarian reasons.