Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...discuss John Connally's looking beyond the so-called Jewish vote to the larger issue [Oct. 22]. Big John is quite prepared to play the appeasement game in return for Saudi oil. Since his way of dealing with the larger issues would turn over a huge portion of the Middle East to the Soviet-backed P.L.O., one wonders how large an army he is prepared to commit to the area in order to ensure our oil supply...
While Connally's proposal for a comprehensive Arab-Israeli settlement based on U.S. military presence seems attractive, it is dangerously myopic. A foreign military presence would be actively opposed by Arab nationalists, not to mention the Soviets, thereby creating Dangerous confrontation and jeopardizing U.S. access to stable oil flow...
...Only three days earlier, Prime Minister Bazargan had held a cordial 90-minute meeting with National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski in Algiers, where both men were attending the 25th anniversary celebration of the start of the Algerian war of independence from France. The Iranians had long since resumed U.S. oil shipments, which had been disrupted by strikes and fighting earlier in the year. The National Iranian Oil Co. (NIOC) is now selling about 700,000 bbl. a day to the U.S. (compared with 900,000 bbl. a day when the Shah ruled Iran), or about 3.7% of American petroleum needs...
...Administration had concluded that the Shah's safety could not be guaranteed against the thousands of Iranian students in the U.S. Nor could Washington realistically hope that the Khomeini-dominated regime would not resort to a campaign of reprisals against the U.S., through either an oil embargo or assaults against Americans in Iran. But last month, after the Administration learned that the Shah was seriously ill, it granted him a temporary visa to visit New York City for medical treatment...
...similar difficulty exists in Khuzistan, center of the Iranian oil industry. The Khomeini regime has alienated the 2 million Shi'ite Arabs of Khuzistan, particularly the oilfield workers, who feel that their strikes made a significant contribution to the overthrow of the Shah. The Iranian oil industry also needs technocratic leadership, which the Ayatullah has been unable or unwilling to provide. The current oil minister, Ah' Akbar Moinfar, last week announced that he would suspend shipments to the U.S. "the moment we get orders from the Imam." In fact, no such order was issued, and U.S. companies said that there...