Word: petroleum
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...troops under joint command with Nasser's, and pushed deals with the Soviet bloc that by last week brought the bulk of some 100 T-34 tanks, 200 armored personnel carriers and 20 MIG jets into the country. After the invasion of Egypt, Serraj blew up the Iraq Petroleum Co.'s pipeline that carries 80% of Iraq's oil across Syria to the Mediterranean, and sent a brigade of troops into Jordan. Syria's inept little army cannot make good use of Russia's modern arms; the arms were obviously being stockpiled for eventual...
...Anglo-French and Israeli invasions of Egypt, President Shukri el Kuwatly has been the virtual prisoner of the army, and Colonel Serraj has established himself as Syria's strongman. Nominally the army's chief of intelligence, Colonel Serraj last month personally planned the sabotage of the Iraq Petroleum Co.'s pipeline to the Mediterranean, the key pro-Nasser play that cut off 60% of the Middle East oil flowing to Europe by other routes than Suez. The colonel is all for Nasser and all for the Soviets. Last week Washington confirmed news reports that Soviet arms have...
...Egypt at once. But Jordan and Iraq were not yet ready to break with Britain, source of much of their revenues, and Lebanon's Chamoun did not want to break with anybody. The Iraqis let neighboring Syria know that they were extremely unhappy at destruction of the Iraq Petroleum Co.'s pipeline across Syria. By blowing up three desert pumping stations, the Syrian army cut off 90% of Iraq's oil output for an estimated six months, at a cost in royalties lost to the Iraq treasury of about $80 million. The Syrians snapped right back...
...Britain's Iraq Petroleum pipeline, running from Iraq to the Mediterranean, has been blown up in so many places in Syria that its 500,000-bbl. daily flow has been completely shut off. If and when Britain resumes diplomatic relations with Syria, Britain may be able to pump oil at 40% capacity by using stations in Iraq; restoring the line to full capacity may take six months or longer...
...Arab Workers broadcast an appeal to Arab field hands to blow up Western oil installations-"even if it means blowing up all the pipelines in the Arab world!" Promptly, workers in tiny Bahrein set fire to a British oil company office. Three big explosions were reported along the Iraq Petroleum Co.'s 556-mile pipeline to the Mediterranean. Saboteurs may have acted on their own. At least, none of the oil-producing or oil-transmitting Arab nations officially ordered the sabotaging of oil installations. They seemed well aware that they, as well as Nasser's enemies, would...