81.   When aid workers arrived there Tuesday, they found hundreds of desperate people.

82.   Displaced people desperate for food are stripping the surrounding land of tree cover to plant crops, while others scrabble for diamonds in the banks of the Sewa river.

83.   While protests engulfed the richer centre of Buenos Aires last week, a desperate people turned to looting in the suburbs.

84.   Kazakh newspapers have also carried reports of desperate impoverished people eating animal feed and even fertiliser in recent days.

85.   Starvation is so acute that desperate people are picking up bits of corn that fall from trains carrying food aid, Linton was quoted as saying.