... is up to Iraqis to decide whether they want to hold free and fair elections and to pass a law to share the country's oil wealth equitably among its communities. There is plenty of resentment and fear to fuel continued violence and revenge. Or ...

... the Kurdish self-ruled area in the north. That would give local authorities more control of the province's vast oil wealth. "I think after the provincial elections, if that goes right and the people believe they are being represented properly ...

... turning people against Ahmadinejad is the conspicuous affluence of wealthy Iranians. Instead of bringing the country's oil wealth to ordinary people's dinner tables, as promised, Ahmadinejad is presiding over an unprecedented rise in status display ...

... attempt in 1992 and won a December election with promises to remove corrupt politicians who had squandered the nation's oil wealth. Chavez has shaken things up by threatening to shut down Congress and the Supreme Court, promoting military cronies ...

... every man, woman and child in Alaska will get a check for $1,540.76 next month as their share of the state's oil wealth -- a drop of $310 from last year. The dividend checks are distributed every year from an oil royalty account called ...

... you (the Kuwaitis) on the same basis," Saddam said. But he accused Kuwaiti officials of turning the country's oil wealth into their own personal wealth and depositing them "in foreign banks under foreign control." He said Kuwait's leaders ...

... the familiar refrain "No blood for oil" was heard -- accusing America of wanting to attack Iraq only to control its oil wealth. Police in the Netherlands detained 90 activists who tried to enter Volkel Air Force Base, where Dutch and U.S ...

... Spain alone ($595.5 billion). And real per capita income has grown by only 0.5 percent per year since 1975. Oil wealth has made some Arabs luxuriously wealthy but has not pulled the region as whole into the modern industrial world. Most ...

... Rumsfeld, Rice and other White House actors made to the American people shortly after the war started: That Iraq's oil wealth would be used to pay for its own reconstruction following a U.S. invasion. "Iraq, unlike Afghanistan, is a rather ...

... Congress and the White House to see Venezuela not only as a model democracy but also as a model of how a country's oil wealth can be used to benefit all of its people," the group said in a letter sent out Thursday by Venezuelan Information Office ...