31.   Some Venezuelans have demanded that Venezuela use oil profits to create jobs and make good on pensions and promised pay raises.

32.   The low proposal was seen as part of an attempt to get around U.N. controls on Iraqi oil profits.

33.   The proposed merger comes at a time of record oil industry profits and intensifying anxiety about rising gas prices.

34.   They claimed they were framed because they were fighting for autonomy and a greater share of oil profits from their homeland in the southeast of the country.

35.   They told the court the trial was designed to gag MOSOP and prevent Ogonis from stopping pollution of their homeland and getting a fair share of any oil profits.

36.   Saro-Wiwa and his colleagues had pushed for the Ogonis to be given a greater share of oil profits from their home region.