Word: arabia
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...Brzezinski who unveiled in 1977 the concept of Iran and Saudi Arabia becoming "the regional influentials" on whom the U.S. could rely in the Persian Gulf. Now that Washington's relations with Tehran are severed and those with Riyadh are strained, Brzezinski is fascinated by the potential of radical, traditionally pro-Soviet Iraq as "the new regional influential...
...search for more domestic energy comes at a time when Saudi Arabia, the U.S.'s principal foreign supplier of crude, is once again showing its clout in world oil. That country last week paid an estimated $2 billion to buy the remaining 40% of Aramco, which produces the bulk of Saudi oil, from a consortium of four American oil producers, Exxon, Mobil, Texaco and Standard Oil of California. Americans will continue working for Aramco, but only in technical and managerial roles. The kingdom's Oil Minister, Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani, is also reported to have told British Foreign...
...pressures, in fact, had been considerable. Within days of the original Knesset bill annexing Jerusalem, Saudi Arabia and Iraq announced they would cut all diplomatic and economic ties, including oil shipments, to any country that kept its embassy in Jerusalem. Early last week Kuwait and Libya joined the ultimatum, bluntly giving Holland 30 days to make up its mind. As the recipient of up to a quarter of a million barrels of oil daily from Kuwait alone, the Dutch were in no position to resist...
TIME'S Pentagon correspondent Don Sider has also learned of an additional oversight, not mentioned in the Holloway report. Sider reports that two C-141 Medevac planes were standing by at Saudi Arabia's Dhahran Air Base with twelve doctors on board to treat casualties from the team that was to have assaulted the embassy and the foreign ministry in Tehran. But no one had reckoned on the crash at Desert One that took eight lives and left four others badly burned. Incredibly, the Medevac planes were equipped for every emergency but burns...
...million bbl. of high-quality Nigerian crude. The government appeared to demand that the oil be either returned or paid for. The situation took on added importance because Nigeria is the U.S.'s largest supplier of crude oil (923,000 bbl. a day) after Saudi Arabia...