111.   To ease the hardship, the U.N. in the past has offered to let Iraq sell oil for food and medicine.

112.   To ease the hardships, the U.N. has offered Iraq a number of plans to allow them to sell oil for food and medicine.

113.   To ease its hardships, the U.N. in the past offered Baghdad plans to let it sell oil for food and medicine.

114.   To ease the hardships, the U.N. put forward plans that would let Iraq sell oil for food and medicine.

115.   To alleviate recent supply pressures, the Clinton administration said it would sell oil from its strategic reserves.

116.   Today, the UN Secretary General Kofi Annan is expected to recommend that Iraq be allowed to sell more oil.

117.   U.N. members have been struggling in recent days to reach a compromise over when the leftover oil may be sold.

118.   U.N. members recently considered a compromise to allow the unsold oil to be sold.

119.   Ueki said Annan may recommend that the UN allow Iraq to sell more oil, but has not indicated how much more Iraq should be allowed to sell.

120.   Under that plan, Iraqi oil is sold to buy food, medicine and other relief items needed by ordinary Iraqis.