The Government is seeking $2 billion in refugee aid from the European Community.

He was hired by the International Rescue Committee, a worldwide relief agency specializing in refugee aid.

This, in the eyes of the United Nations, makes them "internally displaced people," ineligible for international refugee aid.

Those who rejected the conventional view and took up the cause of Czechoslovakian children were largely outside the mainstream of refugee aid.

A specialist in refugee aid warned that unless more assistance was provided immediately, the death toll would grow geometrically.

The other money would go to State Department programs, international agencies and refugee aid.

Most of that would go toward refugee aid, he said.

Mrs. Ogata said she was particularly worried by shrinking international support for refugee aid in Bosnia.

Yet an additional 30 percent came as foreign remittances - a combination of refugee aid and gifts from Palestinians living abroad.

But he suggested that Japan might be able to provide the money as refugee aid.