Oil, Mideast Issue Placed on Agenda
Nixon Pledges Priority to Get Arab-Israel
Negotiations 'Off Dead Center,' Will Seek
Action to Prevent Being-at Oil Powers' Mercy
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A. I think that that question
The two basic questions cerned, the ones that are in-
Oil, the Arab-Israel con-
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here,
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that
it's
tied
is
one
that has been under- R
flict, Arab threats were addressed to the President up with the Arab-Israeli dis- standably speculated about a
placed on the agenda of the and his answers are:
great deal in the press. But
Q. Mr. President, you al- pate.
press conference Wednesday
That is why in talking to obviously, for the President
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at which President Nixon out- hided to this a moment ago, Dr. Kissinger, both before I of the United States, in ans- E
but
what
exactly
are
you
do-
lined his views on emerging
nominated him and since, wer to such a question, to R
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ing to meet these threats
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crises.
that we have put at the high- suggest that we are going to
from
the
Arab
countries
to
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conflict and on the question change in our Middle East the settlement of that dispute. independence of that country
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of oil he spoke of action to -policy?
to which we are dedicated, to G
A. Well, Mr. Cormier, that That's one side of it.
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assure that the United States
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The other p r o b 1 e m , of wha happens on Arab oil, I
will not be "at the mercy of has been a subject of major
concern, and what we are course, are the radical ele- think would be highly inap-
producers of oil."
Among the plans outlined doing, some can be talked ments that presently seem to propriate.
I will say this: And I'll put
be on the ascendancy in var-
by the President was the aim about and some cannot.
Obviously,
we
are
having
ions
countries
in
the
Mideast,
it
in another context, how-
to get the negotiations on an
discussions
with
some
of
the
like
Libya.
Those
elements,
ever.Israel
simply can't wait
Arab-Israel accord "off dead
companies involved. Obvi- of course, we are not in a for the dust to settle, and the
center."
to control, although Arabs can't wait for the dust
In his opening statement ously, as far as some of the position
nations involved — for ex- we may be in a position to to settle in the Mideast. Both
the President said that unless
ample, Libya — our relations influence. Influence them for sides are at fault. Both sides
Congress acts on proposals are not that close that we this reason. Oil without a need to s t a r t negotiating.
for "research and develop-
• Machzorim (for all
could have too much influ- market, as Mr. Mossadegh That is our position. We're
ment in the field of coal and ence. learned many, many years not pro-Israel; and we're not
Synagogues)
other area .. . which, in ef-
With r e g a r d to S a u d i ago, doesn't do a country pro-Arab. And we're not any
fect, have as their purpose
increasing the domestic ca- Arabia, perhaps the relations much good. We and Europe more pro-Arab because they
• Tallism, Hand Woven —
and Israel hasn't.
pacity of the United States' which the United States has are the market. have oil
We
are
pro-peace.
And
it's
I
think
that
the
re-
And
creative energy, it means with Saudi Arabia might lead sponsible
Dacron, Silk, Rayon
Arab leaders will the interest of the whole area
that we will be at the mercy to more influence there.
What I would suggest is see to it that if they continue for us to get those negotia-
of the producers of oil in the
this, in a broader context: to up the price; if they con- tions off dead center. That is
• Kiddush Cups — Sterling
Mideast."
the answer to the problem of tinue to expropriate, if they why we will use our influence
The President this time
Silver, Pewter, Israeli Pattina
oil that we presently depend do expropriate without fair with Israel; and we will use
spoke of sort of even-handed-
upon
in
the
Mideast—we
de-
compensation,
the
inevitable
our
influence
—
what
influ-
ness in dealing with the Mid-
• Candlesticks — Sterling
east issue, and he com- pend on it not, of course, result is that they will lose ence we have — with the
mented about plans for action nearly as much as Europe; their markets and o t h e r various Arab states, and a
non-Arab state like Egypt, to
Silver, Pewter, Chrome, Brass
to be instituted by Dr. Henry but we're all in the same bag sources will be developed. to
get those negotiations on.
Q. Mr. President, I'd like
Kissinger, expressing the when you really come down
Now, one of the dividends
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pressure,
hope that his appointment as to it — the problem that we check the Arab oil
of having a successful negoti-
as
if
I
may,
again.
have
here
is
that
as
far
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A. Yes.
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Q. Is it possible that the oil pressure.
After the press conference,
threat of limiting the supply
of oil would cause a moder- it was affirmed at the White
ation in U.S. s u p p o r t of House that Egypt is an Arab
state and the President was
Israel?
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the moon, to overcome the He cited as • examples the
energy shortage and free Manhattan Project which re-
United States foreign policy sulted in the atom bomb dur-
from the threat of Arab ing World War II and the
space program of the 19605.
"blackmail."
Harriman, who for a quar-
He spoke Aug. 30 to 200
volunteer workers for the ter of a century was one of
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