21.   Also Friday, a shipment of much-needed aid arrived through the border with Greece, and a Greek consulate closed in a southern city following violence there.

22.   An agreement on diplomatic ties could lead to an increase in desperately needed Japanese aid for the economically struggling North.

23.   Belgrade has come under U.S. pressure to extradite them or risk losing millions of dollars in badly needed U.S. aid.

24.   Because of the concern of the United States and other governments, international financial institutions deny Burma much-needed aid and loans.

25.   But badly needed financial aid for rebuilding Somalia is nowhere in sight.

26.   Diplomats now say they are considering cutting desperately needed aid to all of Tanzania.

27.   Having pressed his country to give up nuclear weapons and reform its economy, Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma now hopes to reap the benefits in desperately needed international aid.

28.   He also said the Zaire would be unable to request badly needed aid as long as it continued the war.

29.   He said conditions would require negotiations, which would delay urgently needed aid.

30.   He denied that Milosevic had become a bargaining chip for the badly needed aid.