While it tries to negotiate a resumption of the federal loan program, Mr. Ormisher said, Fisker is in a push for private financing as well.
President Bush is expected to approve the resumption of a program to force down or shoot down airplanes suspected of ferrying drugs in Latin America, a year after the program was halted by the mistaken downing of a plane carrying American missionaries in Peru, American officials say.
The Tuesday launch marks the successful resumption of a program that was halted last year by an embarrassing mishap.
The immediate effect of the resumption of the oil-for-food program might be the dissipation of that political risk.
President Bush is expected to approve resumption of a program in which the United States helps Columbia and Peru track aircraft suspected of ferrying drugs in Latin America.
Hunting for signs of the resumption of a weapons program is more difficult than monitoring enrichment and missile-building activities, both of which require large investments in plants, equipment and related infrastructure.
The release of the six men is the latest of several recent conciliatory gestures from the North toward the South, including the reopening last month of the jointly run Kaesong industrial park in North Korea, though the North has also made threatening remarks during that period and postponed the resumption of a reunion program for families divided by the Korean War.
The United Nations said renewed fighting in the country could delay the resumption of aid programs recently suspended to push for Mr. Abukar's release.
The Fed chairman, Ben S. Bernanke, met with 11 members of the Senate banking committee to explain the decision to inject $600 billion into the banking system, a resumption of the Fed's bond-buying program aimed at lowering long-term interest rates.
Finally, respondents to a survey by Knowledge Networks-Statistical Research in Westfield, N.J., and Menlo Park, Calif., said they were comfortable with the recent resumption of regular programming and advertising after the attacks.
