61.   The U.S. government has donated thousands of tons of food assistance for the defection program.

62.   Vietnam will need more than immediate food assistance for its recovery, Deputy Agriculture Minister Nguyen Thien Luan told the official Vietnam News Agency.

63.   While East Africa was soaked, eight West African countries hit by drought asked for U.N. food assistance.

64.   Without committing to increased food assistance, the United States continues to monitor the situation and is aware of severe shortages in the North, Bowman said.

65.   Workers demanding government food assistance and jobs blocked a highway in the central city of Cordoba.

66.   Grove-Hills said it was still unclear to what extent people will get food assistance from the government and Chinese relief agencies before October.

67.   He also said the North had urged Washington to lift its economic sanctions on the impoverished communist nation and provide additional food assistance.

68.   He said Ethiopia was also overcoming a chronic food shortage, noting that it was no longer seeking food assistance.

69.   Immediately after the incident, WFP offered relief food assistance to the Ugandan government which has just completed necessary arrangements for the transport and distribution of the food.

70.   Aidid also called on the international community to deliver emergency food assistance to starving Somalis and to send a fact-finding mission to assess the needs of the country.