81.   Some buyers speculated oil-rich Venezuela could use a significant windfall in oil revenues to retire Brady bonds in a buy-back program.

82.   Tech receives oil receipt revenue from the land.

83.   That has allowed Saddam Hussein to evade the U.N. financial controls that are supposed to prevent him from using oil revenues to purchase arms.

84.   That would give it oil revenues comparable to those it reaped before the war, assuming oil prices remain unchanged.

85.   That would leave Syria without any of the oil revenue on which it now relies so heavily.

86.   The administration of President Rafael Caldera has been studying the buy-back plan since the summer, when higher oil prices led to a windfall in oil revenue.

87.   That optimism, plus confidence that oil revenues will enable the country to repay its debts, helped Venezuela borrow at a relatively low rate given its credit rating.

88.   The Americans, he said, understood that as Persian Gulf nations lose substantial oil revenue, the welfare states they support come under stress.

89.   The contracts were never signed, however, because the kingdom faced declining oil revenue, leaving it short of cash and trying to balance its budget.

90.   The dependence of most members on oil revenue could tempt countries that are short of cash to quietly pump more oil than the freeze allows.