81.   Aid agencies have warned of impending starvation unless emergency food supplies are delivered to Freetown.

82.   Aid workers have begun pulling out of remote areas, taking emergency food and medical aid with them.

83.   Almost immediately, the United States released emergency food rations already stored in the region, to be distributed by groups like CARE and Catholic Relief Services.

84.   An important aspect of maintaining political support for the military campaign is the U.S. effort to deliver emergency food rations to the millions of Afghans in danger of starving.

85.   Australian officials said Tuesday that dangerous flying conditions caused by the haze are delaying emergency food drops to drought-ravaged Papua New Guinea, which neighbors Irian Jaya.

86.   Authorities said they would slightly increase social spending on emergency food aid and other programs for the poor, including a subsidy for one million impoverished households.

87.   At the previous Cabinet-level talks in Seoul in September, North Korea requested emergency food aid.

88.   But aid agencies have not been able to contact any of them or get emergency food supplies into eastern Zaire since two weeks ago.

89.   But aid agencies have not been able to contact any of them or get emergency food supplies into eastern Zaire.

90.   Cabinet ministers have paid visits to Havana, and French relief groups have provided emergency food and medicine.