Word: oiled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...although such support is directly contrary to the interest of the U.S. Israel has nothing to offer this country. Our dealings with her are a one-way street-outgoing. All our economic interest is with the Arab nations who hold over 70% of the free world's known oil reserves, plus the short trade route to the Far East-both of which are vital to our English and European allies...
...Yorker Emil ("Bus") Mosbacher Jr., 46, champion U.S. yachtsman, will be chief of protocol. A wealthy investor in real estate and oil, Dartmouth-educated Mosbacher has twice skippered a successful America's Cup defender: Weatherly against Australia's Gretel in 1962 and Intrepid against the 1967 Australian challenger, Dame Pattie. The Potomac is no place for a blue-water sail or but, said Mosbacher, "Maybe I can sail a dinghy down there...
This observation was made by a Congressman opposed to a plan to open up the flatlands of Alaska's Kenai Moose Range for oil prospecting, an activity that would surely drive the moose into nearby mountains. The remark would not be very important except that it was aimed at Alaska Governor Walter Hickel, 49, who tried last summer to open the oil-rich range to the oil industry. This week Hickel, who is Richard Nixon's nominee for Secretary of the Interior, comes in for a barrage of questions when he appears for confirmation hearings before the Senate...
...that is impatient to tap its latent wealth. There is so much of Alaska for so few Alaskans that they have never seemed to care very much whether some of the state's 586,400 sq. mi. are despoiled in the rush to unlock its treasure chest of oil, metals, timber and fish. In that respect, Hickel, who had acquired more than $14 million in housing, hotels and natural-gas holdings before his election in 1966, is not notably different in outlook from most of his fellow Alaskans...
...closely on 14 counts. These range from a natural-gas franchise given one of his companies to charges that, while he was Governor, the state built roads for the benefit of his properties. Hickel's critics complain that he has been far too friendly with Alaska's oil operators to be given the Interior Secretary's wide regulatory powers over the entire $50 billion petroleum industry. Hickel has also alienated many Northeastern Senators by his opposition to a scheme for cutting fuel costs in New England by permitting imports of foreign oil through a free trade zone...