41.   U.N. officials had expressed concern that mobs of desperate refugees could get out of control during such a visit.

42.   Western officials fear the government wants to use desperate refugees as human shields against NATO attack.

43.   Human traffickers tend to work for large organised gangs and charge desperate refugees huge amounts of money in order to illegally enter Britain.

44.   Earlier this month, Ghana, Sierra Leone and Guinea took in desperate refugees from Monrovia who had spent days at sea on packed freighters in appalling conditions.

45.   The momentum does appear to be building towards a multinational mission in eastern Zaire to enable aid workers to reach hundreds of thousands of desperate refugees.

46.   The plane is due to bring vital humanitarian aid to the city which has become the hub for huge tattered columns of desperate Croatian Serb refugees.

47.   The number of desperate refugees has correspondingly risen, stemmed only by the US refusal to accept them.

48.   The Zairean security forces have also seized many cars and goods from desperate refugees in a hurry to cross the border into Zaire, the priest added.

49.   Lubbers said desperate refugees were often forced into the hands of smugglers and traffickers.

50.   Major Jean-Guy Plante said the UN mission would resume its two flights daily from Nairobi to rebuild depleted stocks and resume distributing food aid to desperate refugees.