1.   Backed up by small contingents of National Guard, Coast Guard and federal relief workers, some residents continued to pack sandbags.

2.   Block grants are also bad policy because they would provide no additional federal relief when recession hits and state welfare rolls soar.

3.   Border-state senators voiced pleas for federal relief from a new flood of illegal immigrants armed with fake identification papers.

4.   Buffalo leaders have little hope that federal relief will arrive in time.

5.   Clinton state representative Harold P. Naughton is in Washington this week seeking federal relief for MWRA ratepayers in central Massachusetts.

6.   Friends of Mamula insisted he was merely fixing his shorts, which must have been in a state of disrepair dire enough to qualify for federal relief.

7.   He also declared seven coastal counties as state disaster areas and called upon President Clinton for expedited federal relief.

8.   He said a federal bureaucracy had no business telling riverfront communities to build walls, while oceanfront neighborhoods can expect federal relief when hurricanes strike.

9.   In his Seattle visit Sunday, President Clinton declared the Seahawks a disaster area, making the franchise eligible for federal relief funds.

10.   Jamie Lee Witt, director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, is traveling to Oklahoma City to oversee federal relief efforts.