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EGYPT
SAUDI
ARABIA
The
PLAIN TRUTH
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LEFT - pipeline for Continental Oil Company crosses miles
of barren Middle East desert.
BELOW - crude oil from desert pipelines is loaded directly
into the storage holds of a tanker off the coast of Libya .
BOTIOM - Oil installation in the Middle East.
Lelt - More Rlbond,
Magnum;
hlow - Harr lson Forman;
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hoping to increase revenues. The nations
in the federation are Egypt, Libya, Syria,
Sudan, Algeria and South Yemen.
Syria takes the first step. Army per–
sonnel blow up the Tapline and other
pipelines carrying oil from Saudi Ara–
biao and Iraqi oil fields. Simulta–
neously, Egypt doses its supertaoker
pipeline from the Red Sea to the Medi–
terrancan. Libya and Algeria, supplying
a good share of the oil needs of Ger–
many and France, shut clown their wells.
Oil flowing to Europe from west of
the Suez Canal has beeo effectively
halted.
Middle East Oil Production
More importantly the Soviet Union,
seeing a resurgent Europe on its West–
ero border and a mighty Chinese–
Japanese combine on its Eastern flank,
makes its now-or-never move.
SAUDI ARABIA
1.11
billion bo...,, annuauy
ABU DHABI
215 million borrels annually
BAHRE1N
28 million bon.ls onnuolly
ALGERIA
346 million borrels onnually
KUWA1T
940 mllllon barreis onnuolly
TUNISIA
29 mllllon borTels onnuolly
1.23 blllion borTels onnuolly
552 milllon borrels onnuolly
IRAN
IRAQ
LIBYA
1.13 billion borrels onnuolly
OMAN
131
mlllion borrels onnuolly
QATAR
130
milllon bocrels onnually
EGYPT
89 mlllion bon.ls onnuolly
The Soviet Union, secretly backing
the United Arab Union oil embargo,
uses its bases on both sides of the Strait
of Hormuz to blockade any oil leaving
Jraq, Iran and other sheikdoms.
1t
moves troops into South Yemen at the
request of the Arab states. From its So–
cotra base in the Indian Ocean, Saudi
Arabia and the east end of the Red Sea
are blockaded. All this is done in defi–
ance to political handslapping by thc
U.
S. As a result of Soviet actions, no
oil can leave the area.
Europe's Panicky Reaction
Europe and Japan are in turmoil.
Worried leaders quickly assernble to