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Although he no longer worries as much about potential attacks from other Arabs as he did in the days of Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser a decade ago, Faisal faces other political complications. One is the Shahanshah of Iran across the Persian Gulf (Saudis doggedly refer to it as the "Arabian Gulf). Like Faisal, the Shah is an oil-rich absolute monarch, but he disagrees with the King about religion (Iranians are Shia Moslems; Saudis, more orthodox Sunnis) and the military steps necessary to protect the Gulf...
...Ferrara complains that the statistics I use refer to the whole country, not just California. He is correct; incomes in California are slightly higher (as is the cost of living). But according to the 1970 U.S. Census, the median family income for experienced California farmworkers (including foremen and skilled machine operators) is only $6200 a year, or 52 per cent of the state median. For Chicano farmworkers, the median is $600 lower. According to the Census data, over 20 per cent of all California farmworker families live below the poverty line. For Chicanos, the figure is 28 per cent. Even...
...There would be conflict in an 8 a.m. decision on banks, suggested Edwards, a 9 a.m. decision on oil, a 10 a.m. decision on airlines, an 11 a.m. decision on communications and a noon decision on insurance. Replied Rockefeller: "I think that's absurd. The decisions you refer to affect the American people. They don't affect the Rockefeller family." Throughout, he was at pains to separate his family's wealth from the actual management of companies. "I have not followed the management of the companies I invest in. They are investments for investment, not for control...
...been subsidizing the West Bank ever since Israel's occupation in 1967. As for what you describe as King Hussein's defeat at Rabat, I assure you that Rabat was a victory for Jordan and the Arab world in the face of Israeli intransigence. Only the media refer to the outcome of the Rabat conference as a defeat for Jordan...
...knew this basically in the fall of '69 from a number of people, one of them being Morton Halperin, one of them being John Vann, I'll mention him now because he's dead, and some other people in the government. I refer you to Roger Morris's piece in the Washington Monthly, in which Morris discloses--he was Kissinger's assistant--that Henry Kissinger came back from his first meeting with Xuan Thuy in September of 1969, and asked his staff including Morris to prepare full plans for a "savage" blow against North Vietnam that would bring them...