41.   Never before had combatants on both sides allowed the United Nations to mount a relief operation in the midst of a civil war.

42.   Nonetheless, Guinean staff members are keeping the CARE office open in Gueckedou, the southern city from which the agency runs a large relief operation.

43.   On Saturday afternoon, Sanjay Gupta, the man in charge of relief operations, was talking about preventing disease with bleaching powder when the building began to quiver.

44.   On the humanitarian side, a small contingent of U.S. troops began to set up a camp near the Tirana airport handle relief operations.

45.   President Fidel Ramos, apparently sensitive to criticism that he is often abroad when disaster strikes, personally directed relief operations and inspected damage in Manila.

46.   Rumsfeld authorized U.S. officers to attend multinational seminars on relief operations to which Chinese officers were also invited.

47.   She was behind the infamous U.N. resolution that transformed the Somalian relief operation into a small colonial war.

48.   Still, relief operations in Mexico traditionally have been the domain of government bureaucracies and the military.

49.   The alternative, equally difficult, would be to give the rebel government legitimacy by basing the relief operation in rebel-held territory.

50.   The Bush administration presented it as a relief operation.