51.   But U.N. commanders decided long ago that they would not shoot their way through roadblocks, making it easy for the Serbs to shut down the humanitarian aid effort.

52.   Christian Hivernat, an organizer of the French aid effort, said no other such flights were planned for the immediate future.

53.   Despite the promises of cooperation to officials in Geneva, rebel authorities on the ground are currently frustrating U.N. aid efforts and blocking the repatriation of Rwandan refugees.

54.   Despite a massive multinational aid effort to feed flood victims, thousands of Mozambicans were still going hungry.

55.   Despite the promises of cooperation to the United Nations, rebel authorities on the ground have been complicating U.N. aid efforts to evacuate Rwandan refugees in eastern Zaire.

56.   During the dictatorship, Paraguay was largely overlooked by international aid efforts.

57.   Elsewhere, aid efforts focused on the needy eastern enclaves of Srebrenica, Gorazde and Zepa.

58.   En route to Cairo, Egypt, Rumsfeld said the Pentagon plans to airdrop relief supplies into Afghanistan as part of a broader U.S. government humanitarian aid effort.

59.   Flynn denied that the pact would force U.S. aid efforts to conform to Vatican standards.

60.   Fog, snow, civil war and poor quality airstrips have hampered aid efforts since the first reports emerged Friday.