21.   In the long run, Paulus said, the government should distribute financial assistance to the small-scale informal sector, which would absorb a large number of manpower.

22.   Madikizela-Mandela said the cable was evidence that the government was not distributing services fast enough.

23.   Reodica said many children in the drought-hit areas were malnourished and the government would distribute vitamins and food packs to ease their condition.

24.   President Bakili Muluzi told Parliament last week that the government would distribute free food to people in desperate need.

25.   She was worried about the effect of the ash on her children and complained that the government had not distributed face masks as promised.

26.   Since last year, the government has distributed thousands of acres of rice paddies in the valley to landless peasants in a bid to reduce poverty.

27.   The government could then distribute the shares to indigenous Indonesian businessmen, he said.

28.   The government has already distributed relief food supplies to drought victims in the sugar belt.

29.   The government has distributed blankets and warm clothes to the homeless but did not have enough resources to cover millions of people affected by the cold, he said.

30.   The government was distributing medicines, water purifying tablets and antidotes for snake bites, the agency said.