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...relations with India soured in 1971 when the Nixon Administration "tilted" toward Pakistan during their war. The Indians' attitude toward the U.S. hardened again recently when the State Department lifted an embargo on arms shipments to Pakistan...
...remarkable reign, Faisal died at a time when his prestige throughout the Arab world was at a peak. In the past, many Arab radicals had savagely attacked him as a reactionary, tyrannical ruler of a feudal desert kingdom. But all that changed after Faisal dramatically imposed the oil embargo in October 1973. The Cairo daily al Gumhouriya, once a vehicle for anti-Faisal propaganda campaigns, observed last week: "The Arab nation can never forget his heroic stand during the October war, or that he launched the oil battle in support of the fighters in Sinai and the Golan...
...backed Yasser Arafat and the Palestine Liberation Organization, primarily because they fought for Palestinian Arabs. Not until 1973, when Egypt and Syria attacked Israel in the October war, did the West fully appreciate the King's influence. The canny Faisal used oil as an economic weapon by imposing an embargo...
...come in with a towering reputation that he acquired almost overnight. A millionaire Wall Street bond trader for the firm of Salomon Bros., Simon entered Government in December 1972 as Treasury's No. 2 man. At the height of the Arab oil embargo in December 1973, President Nixon named him to create the Federal Energy Office. Simon snapped out quick and crisp decisions on allocations, conservation measures and prices. There were some foulups, but Simon by sheer force of personality convinced Washington that someone had taken charge of what had been a confused energy policy...
...result, newspapers and networks watched each other with special care, anxious for a sign that the story was about to break. There was no concern for getting the news out; the concern was with not getting scooped by the opposition. When Anderson broke the story, The Times decided the embargo was off. Later that night, as The Times readied its coverage, The Los Angeles Time--which did not think the Anderson disclosure was enough to purify the story--learned that The New York Times planned to publish it. Well, that was a different matter...