81.   Crude oil futures slumped amid concern Iraq would reach an agreement with the United Nations to sell limited amounts of oil in order to fund humanitarian aid.

82.   Crude oil slipped after Iraq said it dropped lingering objections to a United Nations plan that would let the country export oil to raise money for humanitarian aid.

83.   Delivery of the promised humanitarian aid could pose a danger to the military, a Pentagon spokesman said Thursday.

84.   Even the deprivations of war -- rations of humanitarian aid supplemented with meager vegetables, jury-rigged fires for heat -- now seem normal.

85.   Examples include increasing U.S. humanitarian aid shipments to private charities in Cuba and allowing U.S. news operations to open foreign bureaus there.

86.   Exemptions are designed to permit humanitarian aid and give presidents some diplomatic wiggle room.

87.   Fawzi also said Iraq and the U.N. agreed on who will distribute the humanitarian aid in Iraq and how the distribution will be monitored.

88.   For the purpose of organizing the delivery of humanitarian aid, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees has divided Kosovo into seven sectors.

89.   For years, humanitarian aid organizations have relied on shoestring budgets to provide relief to the war-ravaged, drought-stricken country.

90.   Fresh infusions of humanitarian aid are appropriate but must be directed through responsible agencies.