President Mandela, leading the nation that many regarded as Africa's new leader, repeatedly called for an oil boycott of Nigeria.

The oil boycott came and went.

He would like the United States to lead an oil boycott aimed at undermining the Abacha regime.

Probably the oil boycott too, somehow.

On Oct. 20, a day after Nixon made public the extent of the aid, Arab oil producers declared an oil boycott.

An oil boycott was imposed on Japan, which helped to spark the Pearl Harbor attack.

The only think that is really effective, and President Mandela also said so some time ago, is an oil boycott against Nigeria.

He vehemently stated the case for an economic boycott, and especially an oil boycott, against General Abacha's military regime.

Now that three years later these measures have had not any effect, some people in this House are arguing for an oil boycott.

Because of the largely poor majority in Nigeria, I question the use of an oil boycott.