Sep 15, 2000

LONDON [MENL] -- OPEC says that despite rising oil prices supply is waybeyond demand.

Sep 19, 2000

LONDON [MENL] -- Oil prices have reached a new high.

Oct 05, 2000

LONDON [MENL] -- Iraq, seeking to shatter the United Nations embargo, hasoffered an olive branch to its neighbor Iran.

Oct 31, 2000

LONDON [MENL] -- For the first time in decades, Saudi Arabia has raised theprospect of sanctions against U.S. companies doing business in the kingdom.