1.   Reports from Jordan indicated that Iraqi businessmen fearful of incurring penalties were no longer prepared even to transport food and essential humanitarian supplies to Iraq.

2.   An exception is made for imports of food, medicine, and humanitarian supplies.

3.   -- The Clinton administration prepared to impose an embargo on all US exports to Serbia other than humanitarian supplies.

4.   Aid groups have begun calling for the United States to secure airfields in Afghanistan to help deliver humanitarian supplies before winter.

5.   But Pentagon officials said bases in Tajikistan could also be used for transport planes delivering humanitarian supplies for relief groups or military equipment for the Northern Alliance.

6.   He said their main purpose would be to work as part of multinational efforts to secure humanitarian supply routes.

7.   In that mission, feuding Somali clans initially welcomed a U.S.-led multinational peacekeeping force sent in to ensure humanitarian supply deliveries.

8.   Irbil would be a key hub for distributing those humanitarian supplies, Clinton said.

9.   It has blocked imports of some humanitarian supplies, and delayed by weeks the entry visas for additional staff members that international agencies say they need.

10.   Iraq suspended oil shipments in early December in order to negotiate a new plan to speed up delivery of humanitarian supplies.