41.   He said efforts by the United Nations to better target the sanctions to ease the suffering of innocent civilians were not enough.

42.   He said the oil-for-food deal has not succeeded in easing the suffering of Iraqi people.

43.   However, there was a move toward contacts to ease the suffering of the Palestinian people, whose economy has collapsed because of the Israeli restrictions.

44.   Images of the scores of amputees and burn victims have rallied ordinary Filipinos who, amid warnings of new violence, are pitching in to ease the suffering.

45.   In a closed meeting speech, King Hussein pleaded with fellow Arab leaders to find a way to ease the suffering of the Iraqi people under U.N. sanctions.

46.   In a speech at a closed meeting, King Hussein pleaded to find ways to ease the suffering of the Iraqi people under U.N. sanctions.

47.   Iraq is to use oil revenues to buy food and humanitarian supplies under a deal designed to ease the suffering of Iraqi civilians after six years of U.N. sanctions.

48.   King Hussein pleaded in a speech at a closed meeting of the leaders to find ways to ease the suffering of the Iraqi people under U.N. sanctions.

49.   Last December, it approved the oil-for-food program to try to ease the suffering of the Iraqis under the sanctions.

50.   Meanwhile, an influential Iraqi state-run newspaper called the revamped sanctions an American attempt to prolong the economic embargo rather than to ease the suffering of Iraqis.