21.   Washington would prefer that no sanctions relief be granted until Iraq had met all of its obligations in full and Saddam Hussein was out of power.

22.   Wolfensohn also warned of the rising cost of granting debt relief.

23.   Deputy Premier Rumen Gechev, also speaking Friday, said the government would seek enactment of a bill granting tax relief to foreign investors which participate in privatization deals.

24.   Finally, even if relief were granted, Mr. McVeigh does not believe he would be better off.

25.   It would allow the president to grant financial relief to industries battered by such surges.

26.   President Clinton granted relief to the U.S. steel industry on Friday in two major cases where steelmakers had sought government action against a flood of foreign steel.

27.   So far, only Uganda and Burkina Faso have been granted debt relief, to be applied in April.

28.   The corporate welfare program that grants tax relief to U.S. firms exporting through offshore subsidiaries, mostly located in the Virgin Islands, Barbados and Guam.

29.   The group is beginning a campaign to get wealthy nations and private donors to increase aid and grant debt relief to nations with high illiteracy rates.

30.   The international aid organization Oxfam charged Thursday that the World Bank and the IMF plan to grant debt relief to these countries was on the verge of collapse.