Perhaps as little as 5 percent of the food needed in Goma, for example, is now getting through to the 1.2 million refugees camped in the area.

They negotiated help from private international aid organizations to care for several thousand refugees camped under sheets of plastic on dank bluffs around the village.

Here she did refugee work among the 30,000 Palestinian refugees camped in the area, interpreting (as the only Arabic speaker among the Red Cross workers) for medical personnel as they registered, inoculated, fed and clothed the refugees.

Relief organizations and the United Nations, struggling to cope with about 800,000 refugees camped around the Zairian town of Goma, are scrambling to reassure the people that they need not flee.

He sighed regretfully as he picked his way slowly through the tattered refugees camped here and there on the floor, wondering what had become of his Louis XVI table.

There's another score or more of refugees camped by the keep.

Dohuk is important to Lazden Doski and about 90 percent of the 40,000 other refugees camped in the slopes and valleys of southeastern Turkey.

Today, relief workers spent the day urging about 20,000 of the refugees camped at a village called Lula, four miles from Kisangani, to march south, which the refugees agreed to do.

They could join the 60,000 refugees camped between Totota and the next town, Salala, or walk all week to Monrovia and wait for peace.

International A3-13 LEBANON UNDER SIEGE Israel continued its attacks on Lebanon, causing great social and economic strain, with refugees camped in many locations and with the prospect of rationing.