31.   In NEW YORK, crude oil futures tumbled amid expectations that Iraq could begin exporting oil next week after a two-month halt.

32.   Iraq can begin exporting oil at midnight U.S. Eastern time the day the U.N. gives its approval.

33.   Iraq has already used the U.N. accord to export oil, from last December through last May.

34.   Iraq has been unable to export its oil since the United Nations imposed sanctions five years ago following its invasion of Kuwait.

35.   Iraq should be allowed to export oil, as the Security Council stipulated, once it complies on disarmament -- no sooner and no later.

36.   Iraq owes Russia billions, which it would be able to repay if it were able to freely export its oil.

37.   Iran and Kazakhstan signed an agreement which allows the land-locked Central Asian republic to export oil through Iranian territory.

38.   Iraqi President Saddam Hussein sanctioned talks with the U.N. late Friday on ways Iraq could export some oil in order to raise money for food and medicine.

39.   Kazakhstan won its second oil-export agreement in the past month with an accord allowing the land-locked Central Asian republic to export oil through Iran.

40.   Justification was offered on nationalistic grounds, but the system also kept bureaucratic control over the companies that were permitted to export oil.