71.  The United Nations last year approved limited oil sales to allow Iraq to purchase needed food and medicine.

72.  The United Nations recently approved limited oil sales, which began last month, so Iraq could purchase needed food and medicine.

73.  The U.N. approved limited sales last December to allow Iraq to buy needed food, medicine and humanitarian supplies.

74.  The U.N.-approved oil-for-food program allows Iraq to sell limited quantities of oil to buy needed food and medicine for its people.

75.  The United Nations has appealed for money to purchase urgently needed food for hundreds of thousands of Ethiopians hit by drought and poor harvest.

76.  Two humanitarian convoys with desperately needed food for Chechnya left neighboring Ingushetia on Monday, the World Food Program said.

77.  U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali appealed to Iraq Wednesday to accept a Security Council offer to sell oil for buying urgently needed food and medicine, officials said.

78.  Under a plan approved in December, Iraq has been allowed to sell limited amounts of oil over a six-month period to buy needed food and medicine.

79.  Urgently needed food and medical supplies were expected to arrive by ship on Wednesday from the neighboring Ambon island, he said.

80.  With starvation looming in a besieged part of northwestern Bosnia, a U.N. aid agency said Monday it will try to bring acutely needed food through an alternate route.