Real War (52 page)

Oil

of Iran,
78
,
80

of Latin America,
35
–36

of Persian Gulf,
23
,
71
–75,
85
,
187
,
188
,
222

Suez crisis and,
78
–79

U.S. dependency on,
29
,
72
,
74
,
80
,
223

Oman,
24
,
75
,
83
,
84
,
86
,
87
,
89
,
95
,
301

On Thermonuclear War
(Kahn),
150

OPEC:
see
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries

Opium Wars,
130

Organization of African Unity,
241

Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC),
38
,
72
,
74
,
79
–80,
81
,
205
,
221
,
225

Ottoman Empire,
65
,
66

Pahlevi:
see
Riza Pahlevi; Riza Shah Pahlevi

Pakistan,
9
,
10
,
11
,
78
,
83
,
89
,
259

Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO),
37
,
38
,
40
,
86
–87

Palestinians,
86
,
87
,
93

Panama,
35

Panama Canal,
36

Paris peace conference (1972–73),
113
,
114
,
116
,
117
,
118
–19,
252

Patrice Lumumba Friendship University (Moscow),
37
,
38

Patton, George S.,
73

Pentagon Papers,
258
–59

People's Republic of China,
2
,
8
,
9
,
12
,
13
,
31
,
89

agriculture,
203

Cultural Revolution,
134

“Gang of Four,”
144
,
145

Great Leap Forward,
134

leaders of,
2
,
127
,
132
,
133
,
142
,
144

Long March,
134

natural resources,
143

RN's 1972 visit to,
127
,
132
,
133
,
136
–37,
141
,
266
–67,
290
–91,
302

RN's 1976 visit to,
127
,
139

RN's 1979 visit to,
127
,
130
,
139
,
148
–49

Republic of China and,
145
–46

Soviet Union and,
13
–14,
15
,
21
,
58
,
134
–36,
140
,
146
–47,
178
,
283
,
284
,
302
,
303

U.S. normalization of relations with,
147

and Vietnam War,
112
–13,
138
,
304

See also
Imperial China; Republic of China

People's Will:
see
Narodnaya Volya

Persia,
52
,
53

Persian Gulf,
11
,
13
,
23
,
38
,
67
,
71
–75,
80
,
81
–83,
121
,
187
,
189
,
191
,
268
,
271
,
305

oil supplies of,
11
,
71
–75,
85
,
187
,
188
,
222

Soviet Union and,
13
,
71
–73,
78
,
82
–85,
89
,
305
–306

strategic position of,
23
,
71
,
74
,
75
,
81
–82,
86
–89,
90
–91,
296

Peru,
34
,
35
,
301

Peter I (“the Great”),
53
,
55
–56,
60
,
63

Petroleum:
see
Oil Pfaff, William,
240

Philippines,
67
,
301

Pipes, Richard,
163
–64

“Pirate Coast”:
see
United Arab Emirates

PLO:
see
Palestine Liberation Organization

Podhoretz, Norman,
242

Poland,
18
,
19
,
53
,
54
,
56
,
209
,
210

John Paul II's trip to,
311

RN's 1959 trip to,
48

Polish Home Army,
18

Politburo,
32
,
234
,
295

Pol Pot,
121
,
146

Pompidou, Georges,
270

Pope:
see
John Paul II

Popular Front for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA),
28

Portugal,
19
,
187
,
302

and Africa,
27
–28,
29

Potsdam Conference,
18

Presidency, of U.S.

and allies,
271
–72

Commander-in-Chief,
248
–49,
269

diplomacy,
250
–53,
269

and secrecy,
257
–60

and security of West,
1
–2

uses of power,
4
–5,
269

“Project Independence,”
222
–23,
225

Prussia,
54

Pushkin, Alexander,
59

Qaddafi, Muammar el-,
80

Qatar,
24
,
75
,
87

Quemoy,
255

Qian Long, Emperor,
128

Qin Shihuang-di, Emperor,
133

Radio Free Europe,
310

Radio Liberty,
310

“Radish communists,”
25

Red Brigades,
40
,
205

Red Sea,
27

Reed, John,
240

Republic of China,
57
–58,
129
,
132
,
137
,
138
,
140
–41,
203

RN's 1953 visit to,
129

People's Republic of China and,
145
–46

Quemoy and Matsu,
255

See also
Imperial China; People's Republic of China

Reston, James,
74
,
255
–56

“Revolutionary war,”
97
,
123
,
124
,
197
,
199
,
239

Rhodesia:
see
Zimbabwe Rhodesia

Rinfret, Pierre,
120

Riza Pahlevi, Mohammed,
10
,
38
,
239
,
272
–76

RN on,
274
–76

Riza Shah Pahlevi,
275

Rockefeller, John D.,
72

Romania,
19
,
209
,
210
,
213

Roosevelt, Franklin D.,
69
,
283

Roosevelt, Theodore,
138
,
193
,
272

Royster, Vermont,
218
–19

Ruhollah Khomeini, Ayatollah,
90
,
239
,
275

Russia, pre-Muscovite,
50
–52,
53
;

see also
Imperial Russia; Muscovite Russia; Soviet Union

Russian Revolution,
42
,
49
–50,
57
,
232
,
235

Sadat, Anwar el-,
84
,
89
,
93
,
94
,
252

Safire, William,
109
–10

Saigon:
see
Ho Chi Minh City; South Vietnam

St. Lucia,
35

Sakharov, Andrei,
72

Sato, Eisaku,
190
,
270

Saudi Arabia,
27
,
28
,
74
,
80
,
82
,
85
,
86
–88,
95
,
178
,
275

siege of Grand Mosque at Mecca,
38
–39,
83

Savimbi, Jonas,
28
,
32

Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr.,
295

Schlesinger, James,
180
–81,
188

Schmidt, Helmut,
178
Scientific American,
150

Second World War:
see
World War II

Selassie, Haile,
25
,
26

Seton-Watson, Hugh,
241

Shaba:
see
Zaire

Shah of Iran:
see
Riza Pahlevi, Mohammed

Shaw, George Bernard,
240

Shiites:
see
Islam Shoup, David M.,
262

Siad Barre, Mohammed,
23
,
26

Sidey, Hugh,
248

Siemon-Netto, Uwe,
39

Sieyés, Emmanuel Joseph,
309

Sihanouk, Norodom,
107
–108

Simon, William,
223
,
225

Singapore,
75

Sino-Soviet split:
see
People's Republic of China; Soviet Union

Six-Day War (1967),
79
–80

Slessor, John,
200

Slim, William,
288

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander,
60
,
244
,
303

Somalia,
23
,
24
,
26
,
27
,
28
,
87
,
301

South Africa,
30
,
32
,
75
,
241
,
277

mineral resources of,
30

racial troubles in,
31
,
33

U.S. policy toward,
33

Southern Africa

mineral resources of,
23
,
28
,
30

racial troubles in,
30
–31

strategic position of,
30
–31

South Korea,
101
,
177
,
192
,
225
,
254
;
see also
Korean War

South Vietnam,
3
,
21
,
34
,
84
,
101
–108
passim,
110
–11,
114

Army of (ARVN),
105
,
110

See also
Paris peace agreement; Vietnam War

South Yemen,
3
,
12
,
19
,
24
,
35
,
37
,
38
,
75
,
82
–83,
84
–88
passim,
94

Soviet Union

and Afghanistan,
9
–12,
45
,
72
,
85
,
89
,
90
,
147
–48,
256
,
280
,
306

and Africa,
4
,
9
,
19
,
24
–29,
32
,
152
,
198
,
206
,
207
,
308

agriculture,
203
–204,
239
–40

anti-Semitism,
22

arms buildup of,
2
,
4
,
12
,
19
,
151

dissidents in,
14

and Eastern Europe,
19
,
66
,
209
,
210
,
303

economy,
203
–205

emigration policy of,
22

expansionism of,
3
,
4
,
8
,
12
,
15
,
17
–19,
36
,
41
–42,
54
,
65
,
66
,
165
,
301
,
308
,
310

five-year plans of,
5

foreign aid,
213

and hegemony,
21
,
22
–23,
85

and Iran,
98
,
275

Japan and,
13
,
14
,
176
,
178
,
189
–93

KGB,
38
,
40
,
55
,
60
,
64

and Latin America,
4
,
33
–36

leaders of,
2
,
8
,
41
,
42
,
44
–45,
47
–49,
60
–64,
233
–36,
267
,
291
–92,
295

military capability of,
20
,
49
,
151
–66
passim,
180
,
228
,
299
–300,
304

RN's 1972 trip to,
48
–49,
290
–91

RN's 1974 trip to,
49
,
208

and North Vietnam,
4
,
117
,
118

oil,
89
,
94
,
188
,
204

and People's Republic of China,
13
–14,
15
,
21
,
58
,
134
–36,
140
,
146
–47,
178
,
283
,
284
,
302
,
303