1.   The Institute for Defense Analyses declined Friday to comment on any aspect of its coming assessment mission.

2.   Other parts of Afghanistan are in desperate need of assistance, but overwhelmed aid agencies are still getting to the most far-flung areas on assessment missions.

3.   AusAID UNDAC has scheduled a meeting for Monday to brief donors and Indonesian authorities on the findings of assessment missions to Sumatra, Kalimantan and Irian Jaya.

4.   He suggested the council deploy assessment missions to targeted countries to determine how embargoes might affect the civilian population.

5.   In Freetown, the U.N. dispatched a humanitarian assessment mission to areas where fighting was reported.

6.   Last week, NPFL guerrillas had forced back peacekeepers on an assessment mission to Bong Mines.

7.   Officials said an assessment mission would be sent to Albania to gage the priorities of any recovery plan.

8.   The assessment mission ended Wednesday.

9.   The Russian proposal calls for a fresh assessment mission to go to Iraq and report back to the council.

10.   UNHCR organized three assessment missions in Kosovo Tuesday to check the aid situation.