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...Middle East peace settlement that U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger had been stitching together suddenly threatened to unravel last week. In a horribly familiar sequence, three Palestinian fedayeen slipped into Nahariya (pop. 21,000), a seaside resort in the Lebanese border area where 48 Israelis had been killed in three earlier fedayeen raids (see map). This time four Israelis died, as well as the three commandos. Israel's initial response was to shell selected targets in southern Lebanon. The raid and the reprisal touched off charges and countercharges, threats and anti-threats around the Middle East that...
There was a flurry of other activity in Congress as well. The Senate Judiciary Committee decided to begin full-scale hearings this week into why the Justice Department failed to unravel the Watergate cover-up in the summer and fall of 1972. One of its first witnesses will be Assistant Attorney General Henry Petersen. Nixon put him in full charge of the Watergate investigation last spring after Richard Kleindienst, then Attorney General, withdrew because the probe's targets included some of his close friends and former associates...
...must undoubtedly have felt that he could still protect the tapes with his claims of Executive privilege. Indeed, there had been discussions among those privy to the system about dismantling the recorders as early as six months after the Watergate burglary, and again when the cover-up began to unravel. But nothing was done. "He never in the world thought he would have to give up any of those tapes to anybody," insists one White House source...
...separate] position in the Middle East?" Europeans argue that any conference with the Arab nations on the oil crisis is most unlikely to upset Kissinger's peace negotiations. Besides, the conference is tentative at best and far in the future. So how, then, could it threaten to unravel Kissinger's foreign policy...
This rich fabric of oil concessions began to unravel in the late '60s, when the rise of rabid Arab nationalism coincided with the increasing dependence of Japan and the West on Middle East oil. By 1970 Libya was becoming a major producer, and its low-sulfur oil was selling for $2.23 per bbl. The Libyan government asked for a moderate 10¢ per bbl. increase, but a group of Western oil companies offered only 6¢. Led by Colonel Gaddafi, the government struck back by cutting production by 25% and lifting the posted price by 30¢, to $2.53 per bbl., the largest...