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...over the Middle East. But the Iranian nationalization served as an early warning that the region's political instability made dependence on Middle Eastern crude risky. Realizing that its other concessions in the Middle East and North Africa might be nationalized too?in fact several of them have been???BP's management foresightedly stepped up the search for oil in politically friendly (though environmentally frigid) climates, from the North Sea to the Labrador shores and Alaska's North Slope. The company began buying leases in Alaska as early as 1959, and brought in a North Sea gas field...
Attorney General Richard Kleindienst was also summoned to Camp David. Though he had not been implicated in the Watergate scandal, many of his associates had been???so many that he had, properly, withdrawn from the investigation. Also, under his direction, the original Justice Department investigation and prosecution of the Watergate wiretappers had been lax and limited. No serious attempt had been made to find out who had ordered the wiretappers to break into and bug the Democratic National Headquarters last June, who had paid them, or who had approved the whole operation. Kleindienst offered his resignation voluntarily...
...rarely is more than a brigade employed. So far, it has been a war of small battles between tanks, planes and artillery, with neither side trying for a quick knockout or decisive showdown. Since there have been no major infantry clashes, casualties have been less than they might have been???perhaps 1,700 dead on both sides...
...although she knows he has financed his intentions by selling a bogus gold mine to Sir Guy Standing. At this point, with Sir Guy turning out to be twice as bogus as the mine, Jerry is forced by circumstances of his own making to remain what he has always been???a crook...
...statement which gives the reader the general idea that since 1913 I've been slipping back from that "peak." An idea that is damaging to my financial standing as well as my pride. . . . And the 21 years since have been???except for the depression years?increasingly busy and active...