11.   Two commercial trucks and two police vehicles edged across the bridge on Monday afternoon, but there was no sign of the badly needed food convoys.

12.   Passengers were hugging each other for warmth, and desperately needed food and warm clothing, radio reports said.

13.   A French government flight carrying desperately needed food and clothing for refugees arrived in eastern Zaire Monday, the government Humanitarian Aid office said.

14.   A French government flight carrying desperately needed food and clothing to refugees in eastern Zaire left Paris late Sunday.

15.   A helicopter will be flown to Koh Sla on Wednesday to distribute desperately needed food aid, the governor said.

16.   A report by the charity World Vision International released late last year said more than three quarters of Malawians in rural areas desperately needed food.

17.   A multinational European force is being sent to Albania later this month to secure ports for the delivery of badly needed food and medical supplies.

18.   A rusty freighter seeking a port of refuge for thousands of sick and weary Liberian refugees limped back to Ghana Monday to restock desperately needed food and medical supplies.

19.   A United Nations truck convoy Saturday delivered thousands of tons of desperately needed food aid to the war battered Afghan capital.

20.   A unique U.N. program, called oil-for-food, allows Iraq to sell its oil in exchange for badly needed food and medicine.