31. So that they would not look altogether indifferent to the horror, the allies came up with the idea of neutral humanitarian relief. 32. Some of the American-backed forces are feuding with each other and running off with food and other humanitarian relief supplies. 33. The airfield there could also prove useful for distributing humanitarian relief and for commando operations. 34. The bazaar is already selling the daily food rations that U.S. forces are airdropping throughout Afghanistan as part of a humanitarian relief effort. 35. The network compared it to the humanitarian relief effort for the Mozambique flooding, in which only about a dozen of the giant planes were employed. 36. The leaders agreed to consolidate overlapping agencies and programs concerned with humanitarian relief, aid to poor countries and monitoring social and environmental conditions in foreign nations. 37. The main risk was that Clinton would be seen as an opponent of fiscal responsibility and, specifically, as an enemy of humanitarian relief. 38. The outside world spends more than a quarter of a billion dollars a year on humanitarian relief in Sudan. 39. The Pentagon is considering several ways to provide assistance, including dropping supplies by air and using military bases in the region as staging areas for humanitarian relief. 40. The organization was founded in a simpler time, before post-Cold War chaos complicated the politics of humanitarian relief. |