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...BAHREIN...
...Bahrein, just 100 minutes by plane across the Persian Gulf from Kuwait, epitomizes the progress that can be made when a sheikdom has a good ruler, a devoted foreign adviser, and enough oil royalties to work with. The five-island archipelago produces only one-thirtieth of Saudi Arabia's crude, has one-fortieth of Iraq's proven reserves, earns but a fiftieth of Kuwait's royalties. Yet Bahrein (rhyme with ah, rain) is the showplace of the oil kingdoms. Manama, the capital, looks more like a clean town in the West Indies or Bermuda than an Arab...
...Oilman Max Thornburg, onetime administrator of Iran's defunct Seven-Year Plan, who lives part of each year like an air-conditioned Robinson Crusoe on one of the Bahrein Islands, says: "If the Point Four people really want to know how to handle this sort of thing, they should come out here and study Bahrein...
...passport's normal 48 pages. Security functionaries in this part of the world love my passport. They play it like an accordion. I've made eight trips to Iran, seven to Egypt, six to Syria, three each to Turkey and Iraq, two each to Greece and Bahrein, one each to Jordan, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Qatar ... My wife wistfully wishes she'd married a traveling salesman...
...Communists grab Iran, they will get an asset far more valuable than Korea. Through Iran lie Russia's paths to the rest of the Middle East oil: the great fields of Iraq and Arabia, and the Bahrein-Sidon, Kirkuk-Haifa and Kirkuk-Tripoli pipelines (see map). With U.S. encouragement, Western Europe depends more & more on Middle East rather than Western Hemisphere oil. This shift is economically and strategically sensible, provided that the Western powers intend to defend the Middle East. Fact is, however, that they show no serious sign of such an intention. Turkey is the only country...