After surviving an exodus from Rwanda and the cholera epidemics that followed, killing more than 50,000 people, the refugees huddled in camps in eastern Zaire finally have enough food and water.

Seven refugees huddled around a blazing fire that had been built in one corner, next to a window cracked open slightly, just enough to let the smoke out.

Time had lost its hold on them momentarily, victims of all forms of strife and misadventure, refugees huddled within the shelter of their intoxication and their loose companionship.

General Kenobi walked from shadow to shadow, bending to wake the refugees huddled under frigate hulls and transport crates.

As the refugees huddle in makeshift camps here, militia men, wearing bright red bandannas and black T-shirts, roam the grounds menacingly.

The eight hundred refugees from Avaricum huddled together, eating our food and trying to forget the nightmare.

Officials began planning for the evacuation of the Superdome, where about 10,000 refugees huddled in increasingly grim conditions as water and food were running out and rising water threatened the generators.

He set his terms "in the most threatening way," as the colonel later described it: no more air strikes, or the refugees huddled at Potocari would be shelled and shot.

Ronan sheathed his sword and the company rode off, leaving the refugees huddled together like sheep, staring after them.

In 1981, Mr. Hartling's organization had a staff of 1,000 people, roughly two-thirds of working in the far-flung dreary sites where refugees huddled.