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...target would be Saudi Arabia, which has 56.5% of this oil. According to the plan, the Saudis would be overwhelmed by a U.S. air-sea strike force prepared to hurl four divisions of troops at the Ghawar wellhead and the loading jetties of the U.S.-built oil facility at Dhahran...
Saudi Sabotage. First, several battalions of airborne troops would drop on Ghawar and Dhahran to prevent the Saudis from blowing up oil refineries, storage tanks and producing wells. After securing the Dhahran airstrip-built by the U.S. and thus familiar-they would wave in the rest of the division. A swarm of C-5As, C-141s and C-130s would unload not only back-up artillery and infantry but also engineers who would get the oilfields working again. Three days after the airborne assault, the Marine units would come ashore by helicopter and landing craft...
...health care, schooling and no-interest home mortgage loans to its Saudi employees, while paying them well (average yearly wage: $6,270) and training them carefully. Today 15% of the company's some 260 managers are Saudis. They mingle easily in the company's headquarters town of Dhahran, where Aramco has created a neighborhood of ranch-style houses and tree-lined streets that look a bit like a suburb of Houston...
...miles southeastward from the delta of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers to a narrow strait that doglegs around the tiny tip of Oman, the Persian Gulf may be the world's most valuable and vulnerable waterway. At such desert-edge ports as Ras Tanura, Abu Dhabi, Kuwait, Dhahran and Kharg Island, scores of supertankers congregate like wallowing whales to suck up crude oil. Daily they plow through the gulfs warm waters and out through the Strait of Hormuz carrying some 20 million bbl. of oil-almost half of the non-Communist world's consumption. If the gulf were...
...hajj passports for his people; there were fist fights in Cairo as devout Moslems elbowed their way into queues to get the necessary documentation. In Jordan, airline space to Jeddah was at such a premium that one group of rich pilgrims flew to London, caught a BOAC flight to Dhahran near the Persian Gulf, then chartered a bus to cross 780 miles of desert...