Word: aramco
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...showed a year ago. Two recent attacks on fortified Israeli positions were led by officers-a rare event in the past. Earlier this month, in a well-planned strike, half a dozen guerrillas belonging to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (see box, page 42) blew up Aramco's trans-Arabian pipeline linking Saudi Arabia and Lebanon across 25 miles of formerly Syrian, now Israeli-held territory. The Israelis, working with bulldozers to form earthen ramparts, then burning off the oil, had a difficult time keeping 8,500 tons of spilled crude from polluting their major water...
...Palestine (PFLP), an outfit of perhaps 2,000 men that has taken credit for such spectaculars as the hijacking of one El Al airliner, the shooting up of two others, the bombing of the Tel Aviv central bus station and a Jerusalem supermarket, and the blowing up of the Aramco pipeline-its most recent exploit. It is led by left-leaning Dr. George Habash, 44, a Palestinian Arab from Lydda who long ago turned from medicine to the violent practice of Palestine politics. Last week, in a rare interview, TIME Correspondent Lee Griggs talked with Habash in PFLP headquarters...
Disclaimed Bridge. The strife extended to the waters of the Gulf that separates the two countries. Iran refused to ratify a 1965 agreement dividing the Gulf into Saudi and Iranian zones, and Arabian newspapers blossomed with maps labeling it the "Arabian Gulf." When an Aramco drilling team, with Saudi approval, began working in the same waters as the Iranian concessionaire, a joint venture by Iranians and Standard Oil of Indiana, one of the Shah's gunboats arrested the oilmen...
...industry. Abu-Haidar, graduating from the American University of Beirut, decided against a career in medicine, went to work as a junior clerk for the Arabian American Oil Co. He was eventually named head of the transportation department, given the job of providing food and equipment for Aramco crews prospecting along the Persian Gulf. Trucks carrying the supplies either bogged down in the desert or were stopped by tribesmen; ships sometimes went aground. Abu-Haidar decided to switch to airplanes but Aramco, while interested, was unwilling to get too deeply into aviation...
...Haidar solved that by arranging to be fired in friendly fashion. With $600 in severance pay, he flew to London with a letter of intent from Aramco to use his nonexistent air-charter service. With that credential, he arranged the lease of an aging four-engine York, the transport version of England's Lancaster bomber of World War II. Operating out of a one-room office in Beirut, Abu-Haidar was soon getting charter business not only from Aramco but from other oil companies as well. He leased three additional Yorks, manned them with former R.A.F. flyers who knew...