Word: oils
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crush on Oil...
This nation's lust for oil [Feb. 26] is a national disgrace. In order to get our daily "fix" we are willing to coddle tyrants, insult friends and grovel before reactionary regimes. Once it was feared that mankind would be "crucified upon a cross of gold"; now it appears that it will be crushed by a barrel of oil...
Even if a settlement on the U.S. compromise proposals can finally be worked out, several other problems will still remain. Among them: guarantees to Israel that its loss of the Sinai oilfields would not deprive it of an adequate oil supply, and a timetable for the exchange of ambassadors between Cairo and Jerusalem. Also to be determined...
...other country in the Middle East is more important to U.S. economic and strategic interests than Saudi Arabia. Because of the immense oil wealth of the desert kingdom, its internal stability and its political moderation in Arab affairs, Washington has regarded Riyadh's support for the Camp David accords as vital to the success of any peace settlement. That support has not been forthcoming, despite pleas from Washington and Cairo. Saudi Arabia views any Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty as essentially bilateral and insists that only a comprehensive settlement involving all the confrontation states holds any real prospect for peace...
Independence would take the oil out of English hands, a consequence no one in England wants to see. Callaghan, fearing the loss of the oil and the support of the SNP, reluctantly shepherded a devolution plan through Parliament in the hopes that it would not be a first step to complete independence, but would satisfy the Scottish desire for more self-government...