"The Advertiser" 
Adelaide South Australia
23 June 1979

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US plans 'oil army'
Australian Associated Press-Reuter

WASHINGTON, Friday -- The new Nato Military commander General Bernard
Rogers said yesterday the US was preparing plans for a huge military
force whose sole purpose would be to fight a war in the Middle East
or the Third World.

The corps - 110,000 soldiers plus Marines and supporting ships and planes
- could be used to intervene whenever the flow of oil to the West was
threatened, officials said.

General Rogers, marking his last day as US Army Chief of Staff, said the
new "Unilateral Corps" would be exempt from any military call to war in
Western Europe.

(snip)

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Cheers, Steve..

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