31.   The operation included the air patrols, a small military force serving as observers in Zakho, Iraq, on the border with Turkey, and the relief aid.

32.   The United Nations has repeatedly appealed for relief aid for North Korea, but the latest appeal has raised less than one-third of the target.

33.   The United States and France have sent disaster relief aid.

34.   The two also discussed military strategy in Afghanistan, relief aid and postwar reconstruction, Blair said.

35.   Their task is to provide storage for relief aid from nongovernmental organizations and to make sure it is trucked to the city by Afghan contractors and properly distributed.

36.   The United States oversaw the relief aid, but generally left the delivery of it to organizations like UNICEF and to private relief groups.

37.   They expressed gratitude for the American relief aid and said their greatest need now was housing.

38.   Other donors who pledged relief aid are Australia, Norway, Britain and China.

39.   Political leaders in this British colony tried to forge a coalition government Tuesday following elections dominated by an active volcano and a dispute over relief aid.

40.   A German military plane flew four tons of relief aid to a famine-stricken province in southern Sudan on Tuesday, the German Embassy said here.