41.   Lifting of the oil embargo should not be tied to the two Americans.

42.   Moreover, last December the U.N. partially lifted the oil embargo on Iraq.

43.   NATO and the European Union last week moved to impose the oil embargo.

44.   NATO military chiefs continued to work on how to implement a planned oil embargo against Yugoslavia as NATO announced additional attacks on a refinery in Novi Sad.

45.   Moreover, the fundamentals of the U.S. economy were weak, hurt by inflation and oil embargoes and huge military spending on the Cold War.

46.   Negotiations are under way at United Nations headquarters in New York on easing the five-year-old oil embargo on Iraqi exports.

47.   Now they fight to lift the oil embargo against Iraq.

48.   On Friday, they agreed to impose an oil embargo enforced by NATO warships plying the Adriatic Sea.

49.   On Saturday Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov said Russia would ignore any NATO decision to impose an oil embargo against Yugoslavia.

50.   On Wednesday, France went public, proposing to lift the oil embargo.