nafta ja telekas

Oil prices stayed so low for so long that by the end of the 1960s no respected energy analyst thought they would ever rise. The majority of oil experts assumed the price would steadily fall. This assumption was vividly illustrated in the last days of the low oil price era. The Shah of Iran, a strong U.S. ally, attended President Eisenhower's funeral in 1969. During this visit, he quietly offered the new President of the United States, Richard Nixon, a 10-year contract to supply the United States with oil for one dollar a barrel. According to Henry Kissinger's memoirs about the Nixon administration, the United States declined the Shah's offer because it was not clear to any senior government official that oil prices would stay as high as one dollar per barrel over this lengthy period of time.

Matthew R. Simmons
Twilight in the Desert
The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy
John Wiley & Sons, Inc, New Jersey 2005
p. 55

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Ühel 1975. aasta märtsikuu hommikul äratas Yeslam mind uudisega, et kuningas Faisal on reeturlikult tapetud - yks tema vennapoegadest lasi ta maha. Tajusin tema paanikat ja ärevust. Yeslam ütles, et Saudi Araabias on mäss. Väideti, et salamõrvar oli hull ja tõenäoliselt oli tegu kättemaksuga - mõrvari vend lasti maha kümme aastat tagasi, kuna võttis osa islamifundamentalistide mässust kuninga otsuse vastu, mis legaliseeris kuningriigis televisiooni.

Carmen bin Ladin
Läbitungimatu kuningriik
Sinisukk, Tallinn 2004
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