111.  Japanese foreign ministry officials, who have said Tokyo is prepared to offer more rice to North Korea for humanitarian reasons, will also be at the Honolulu meeting.

112.  Officials said exceptions would be made to the ban for humanitarian reasons on a case-by-case basis.

113.  Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin agreed to a request to that effect from Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat as an exceptional measure and for humanitarian reasons, the officials said.

114.  Taiwan agreed on Thursday to allow more mainland Chinese to live here with their local spouses for humanitarian reasons, a cabinet official said.

115.  The former prisoner, Lee In Mo, was given a visa for humanitarian reasons amid stepped-up contacts between Pyongyang and Washington in recent months.

116.  The embargo was eased for humanitarian reasons last month after lengthy bargaining with Baghdad.

117.  The government said it was acting for humanitarian reasons.

118.  The Iraqi leader refused to comment on how events in Iraq might have on certain countries like France which favour easing the embargo for humanitarian reasons.

119.  The king said that links between his country and Iraq were cut for most areas except for trade, which was needed for humanitarian reasons.

120.  The paper also noted that Senegal, which surrounds Gambia, had decided not to intervene militarily and for humanitarian reasons had afforded Jawara and his family political asylum.