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Last June Titles: Oil and Turmoil: America Faces OPEC and the Middle East (Norton, $14.95), by Dankwart A. Rustow, is an interesting study of America’s involvement in the Mideast oil countries since the gradual withdrawal of Britain from the area, and the United States’ increasing dependency on the region’s oil. Rustow is relatively sanguine about the United States’ prospects for energy independence and the development of a political strategy in the Middle East that will serve our long-term interests.

Counterattack: The West’s Battle against the Terrorists (Facts on File, $14.95), by Christopher Dobson and Ronald Payne, is the companion volume to the authors’ previous book The Terrorists. It is a study of the measures taken by the Western democracies to combat terrorism. Dobson and Payne, foreign correspondents for the London Daily Telegraph and Now magazine, are much concerned by libertarian legislation which they consider has hogtied the CIA and the FBI.

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Last June Titles: Oil and Turmoil: America Faces OPEC and the Middle East (Norton, $14.95), by Dankwart A. Rustow, is an interesting study of America’s involvement in the Mideast oil countries since the gradual withdrawal of Britain from the area, and the United States’ increasing dependency on the region’s oil. Rustow is relatively sanguine about the United States’ prospects for energy independence and the development of a political strategy in the Middle East that will serve our long-term interests.

Counterattack: The West’s Battle against the Terrorists (Facts on File, $14.95), by Christopher Dobson and Ronald Payne, is the companion volume to the authors’ previous book The Terrorists. It is a study of the measures taken by the Western democracies to combat terrorism. Dobson and Payne, foreign correspondents for the London Daily Telegraph and Now magazine, are much concerned by libertarian legislation which they consider has hogtied the CIA and the FBI.