31.   The first food from the oil sale program should begin reaching Iraqi shelves in about three months.

32.   The shipment was the first food aid delivered directly to the northeast of the country, where aid agencies have previously not been allowed to operate.

33.   The United Nations on Saturday sent the first food shipments to Afghanistan since terrorist attacks in the United States, a U.N. spokesman said.

34.   There they gulped down cornmeal soup and beans, the first food many had eaten in four or five days.

35.   Thousands of people formed blocks-long lines to receive their first fresh food since Monday at markets and to get potable water from tank trucks.

36.   They were having their first fresh food after hiding for three weeks.

37.   They were having their first fresh food rations after hiding for three weeks.

38.   Thousands of Rwandan refugees are emerging from the jungles of central Zaire, hoping for their first food in a week.

39.   Thousands of Rwandan refugees emerged from the jungles of central Zaire Tuesday in search of their first food in a week.

40.   Under the gaze of heavily armed troops, hungry earthquake survivors formed immense lines to pick up their first food rations after days of disorder and looting.