11.   Food and medicine are exempted, but the lack of revenue has caused widespread suffering.

12.   He blamed Saddam for widespread suffering caused by U.N. sanctions, saying the Iraqi leader should agree to U.N. plans for limited oil sales to pay for humanitarian supplies.

13.   How can leaders be reaping political dividends from a crisis that seems so intractable and has caused such widespread suffering?

14.   In North Korea, where famine has brought widespread suffering, KCNA, the news agency of the Stalinist state, delivered its usual praise of revolution.

15.   Iraq insists it is complying fully with U.N. Security Council resolutions and points to the widespread suffering it says the sanctions have caused among the Iraqi people.

16.   Jacob Patipi told RCTI television that Christian missionaries had reported widespread suffering because of shortages of food and clean drinking water since the start of August.

17.   North Korea will need help through most of next year to prevent widespread suffering from cold and malnutrition, a Red Cross official said Monday.

18.   Other papers showed pictures of elderly people and babies with chopped-off limbs -- presumably hacked off by rebels -- and berated the renegades for causing widespread suffering.

19.   The number of illegal guns on the streets causes widespread suffering, said Axworthy.

20.   The petition alleged that the U.S. restrictions cause widespread suffering on the island.