31.   The United Nations was readying huge transport planes to drop food packets to the impoverished refugees as early as Thursday.

32.   The United States has dropped leaflets written in local languages explaining the difference between the food packets and the bombs, said Air Force Gen. Richard Myers.

33.   They were also given food packets and ang pow.

34.   U.S. military aircraft have been dropping food packets in Afghanistan, prompting complaints from humanitarian groups who say Afghan children might mistake unexploded cluster bomblets for food packets.

35.   Helicopters have been dropping food packets in the area while army boats were moving people to safer places, residents said.

36.   Indian army and air force helicopters continued to drop food packets and medicines in dozens of marooned villages where men and women have taken refuge on rooftops and trees.

37.   Army helicopters have been deployed to drop food packets and medicine to hundreds of people who have taken shelter on rooftops, he said.

38.   Troops in the two states were distributing food packets and building shelters on higher grounds for villagers left homeless by the flooding, the officials said.

39.   Troops in the two states were distributing food packets and finding shelter for villagers left homeless by flooding, they said.

40.   The army teams also distributed medicine and thousands of food packets to the marooned.