1.   Applications, meanwhile, are flooding fuel assistance groups.

2.   Military planners are working unusually closely with representatives of the Agency for International Development and refugee assistance groups.

3.   Nearly frantic, she called a Polish assistance group, and was told that it was true.

4.   Refugee assistance groups provide a month of financial help to the group, but then the government provides assistance for seven months.

5.   This San Francisco-based consumer assistance group has an aid hotline in Southern California.

6.   With assistance from the Wheaton, Ill.-based refugee assistance group, World Relief, his family was able to move to the United States.

7.   Assistance groups in the area have switched gears from jobs to survival.

8.   Russia has accepted the presence at Grozny of the OSCE assistance group.

9.   The All-Russian Society for the Disabled, the leading handicapped assistance group, used to be part of the Soviet government.

10.   The assistance group would have access to all parts of Chechnya and to neighboring republics as well, Horvath said.