Power play : oil in the Middle East /
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Random House,
1973.
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| Edition: | 1st American ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- The concessionaires. The millionaires of Baku ; The absentee concessionaire ; Big deal ; The wells of Ibn Saud ; 35,000 gold sovereigns ; And then there was Kuwait
- The operators. Gusher ; Domes for sale ; Skulduggery in Kuwait
- The Arabs hit back. Someone else's war ; Shutdown in Arabia ; Breaking the thick red line
- Enter the independents. Neutral zone ; Fifty-fifty ; The man in the pajama suit ; The flight of the Shah
- The breakthrough. Trouble at the oasis ; Three sheiks and an American ; Blowup ; Enter the Japanese ; Over a barrel
- The challenge of the sixties. Death of a gadfly ; Overthrow ; The Libyan jackpot ; Coup d'êtat
- End of an epoch? Boycott ; Tidying up
- Crude facts. Private club ; Participation ; The bottom of the barrel?
- Appendix : The oil states of the Middle East : some facts and figures.