31.   The House considered late Monday whether to put an amendment onto an FDA appropriations bill that would prevent the agency from enforcing the law or mailing such warning letters.

32.   The U.N. aid agency has been prevented from sending regular convoys into the area since May.

33.   The war has prevented aid agencies from shipping in sorghum, wheat, maize and cooking oil via the Red Sea ports of Assab and Massawa.

34.   The U.N. aid agency has been prevented from sending regular convoys since May.

35.   Heuze alleged that the rebels were deliberately causing chaos in Zaire to prevent relief agencies from helping the refugees.

36.   In his opening speech, IAEA Director General Hans Blix said the US-Iraq crisis was preventing the agency carrying out some of its inspections in Iraq.

37.   Day after day, relief agencies have been prevented from going in.

38.   The rebels are accused of deliberately causing chaos in Zaire to prevent relief agencies from helping the refugees.

39.   The terrain is difficult at the best of times, and worse in the harsh winter snows, preventing humanitarian agencies from carrying out effective assistance, Mansour said.

40.   Tutsi rebels controlling the Uvira plain in eastern Zaire across from Bujumbura continued Monday to prevent aid agencies from reaching the region from Burundi, the United Nations said.