41.   In return, it was promised aid in the form of oil shipments and a pair of civilian nuclear power plants.

42.   In the future, Bacon said, failure to document the legality of Iraqi oil shipments will result in confiscation of the cargo and possibly the ship.

43.   Iraq has threatened to cut off oil shipments for a month to protest the Israeli military action in the West Bank.

44.   Iraq restarted oil shipments through its two export terminals Wednesday, a week after the U.N. renewed the oil-for-food program.

45.   Iraq said Monday it would resume oil shipments if the humanitarian program is extended without any mention of the U.S.-British plan.

46.   Iraqi officials say they have no information about such oil shipments.

47.   It did not embrace a naval blockade proposed by the United States to keep oil shipments away.

48.   Iraq stopped oil shipments last week over the pricing dispute and oil prices unexpectedly started tumbling.

49.   Khodorkovsky said while distance precludes Russian oil shipments to the United States, there is no reason a bookkeeping system to trade oil could not be established.

50.   Meanwhile, Russia ignored a European Union ban on oil shipments to Yugoslavia that took effect Saturday.