The Protracted Conflict

The Protracted Conflict JAMES BURNHAM

It did not take long for Moscow to signal its estimate of the Summit. On May 29 Secretary Brezhnev and President Nixon signed the Twelve Point Declaration of Principles that wound up the Summit protocol. On June 1 the Kremlin’s new protégé, Iraq, seized the 1.1 million barrel a day Kirkuk oil field of the Iraq Petroleum Company, a British- French-U.S. consortium, and the Kremlin hanger-on, Syria, nationalized the pipeline used to carry the Kirkuk oil to Mediterranean ports.

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The Protracted Conflict JAMES BURNHAM

It did not take long for Moscow to signal its estimate of the Summit. On May 29 Secretary Brezhnev and President Nixon signed the Twelve Point Declaration of Principles that wound up the Summit protocol. On June 1 the Kremlin’s new protégé, Iraq, seized the 1.1 million barrel a day Kirkuk oil field of the Iraq Petroleum Company, a British- French-U.S. consortium, and the Kremlin hanger-on, Syria, nationalized the pipeline used to carry the Kirkuk oil to Mediterranean ports.