81.   Help came from small boats and cargo ships, military planes and oil platforms.

82.   International judges rule Thursday whether they have jurisdiction in a U.S.-Iran dispute over the U.S. destruction of three Gulf oil platforms during the Iran-Iraq war.

83.   It launches satellites from a seagoing converted oil platform.

84.   It was the first time an entire oil platform has been shut down in the North Sea because of allegedly inferior working conditions, news reports said.

85.   Last year Greenpeace and other environmental groups attacked Shell over its plan to dump the obsolete Brent Spar oil platform in the North Sea.

86.   Kohl last month publicly criticized the decision of British Prime Minister John Major to let Shell dump a disused oil platform off Scotland.

87.   Norway appears set to dump its own oil platform in the sea.

88.   Norway virtually was alone with Britain in opposing a ban on dumping oil platforms in the sea, proposed at a recent meeting of North Sea nations.

89.   Oil company officials failed early Monday to oust Greenpeace activists from a North Sea oil platform, driven back by high winds.

90.   On Tuesday, Shell gave in to sharp protests and abandoned its plan to sink the British oil platform north of Scotland.