21.   On Saturday, rain and mud made for miserable conditions as returning refugees tried to clean up gutted houses and drain damaged water wells.

22.   On their first night back in Kosovo, thousands of returning refugees end up on mattresses on the floor of a transit center in Pristina.

23.   One only can imagine how much is being spent annually by the U.S. to fight the drug traffic from Haiti and to patrol the seas interdicting and returning refugees.

24.   Other returning refugees were more fortunate.

25.   Otherwise, returning refugees would not feel secure.

26.   Returning refugees are being protected by NATO forces against reprisals by local ethnic Albanians.

27.   She and other volunteers went to the jungle region of northern Guatemala to accompany returning refugees who fled to Mexico during years when security forces massacred thousands of peasants.

28.   She also visited a camp for returning refugees and spent time with some refugee children who had become separated from their parents during their long ordeal in Zaire.

29.   Stanley Schrager, a spokesman for the U.S. embassy here, denied that the returning refugees were in danger.

30.   The logistics of returning refugees to their homes are also daunting.