VOL. XLIII

No. 51

18-December-2000

OPEC

TheBushAdministration-Elect, Energy And TheMiddle East

by John K Cooley

Mr Cooley is an American author who reports forABC News from Athens. He has been covering the Middle East and North Africa for ABC, theChristian Science Monitor and others for the past 40 years and wrote the following exclusively forMEES:

Long before the start of the US presidential campaign last summer, international energy circles and governments speculated over the impact of a...