61.   Allied troops appeared unprepared to deal with the flood of desperate Kosovo people returning to their homeland.

62.   Another young woman, Erkonda Lecaj, described how she and her sister carried their younger siblings into the mass of desperate people trying to board the buses.

63.   But daredevils, journalists, and people desperate to reach their families are allowed to pass when they insist.

64.   But daredevils, journalists, and people desperate to reach their families are permitted to pass when they insist.

65.   But some seed has shriveled and burned in the cracked earth, and some has been fried and eaten by desperate people.

66.   But poor countries in acute economic distress -- the normal end-of-regime situation in Third World dictatorships --contain millions of desperate people.

67.   Desperate people spent most of their savings to pay boatmen and move to safer places.

68.   Even so, officials are vague on how they will persuade desperate people to comply.

69.   Even the most positive reactions were lukewarm, coming from people desperate for economic relief and bare-bones comfort after years of misery.

70.   In North Korea, most forests have been chopped down by people desperate for cooking or heating fuel.