1.   A few years ago, military officials in Washington cleaned out old shelter supplies, distributing dry biscuits to anti-hunger groups.

2.   Brenda Barton, a spokeswoman for the World Food Program, said the U.N. efforts to distribute biscuits to the refugees as they marched had ended in disaster.

3.   Food stations along the road distributed high-energy biscuits.

4.   Still, U.N. officials and aid organizations have decided to distribute only biscuits and water to people on the road at a few way stations.

5.   Aid agencies are distributing only biscuits and water to the returnees until they reach their homes, where they will get supplies to last them for two months.

6.   High-nutrition food biscuits were being distributed, Dey said.