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not always see eye to eye,” Miami Herald, 7/13/82.

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25. Off-the-record interview.

26. Mayman interview.

CHAPTER TWENTY

1. Off-the-record interview.

2. Forbes, 12/7/81.

3. Toronto Star, 6/ll/84.

4. Newsweek, 7112/82.

5. Washington Post, 12/14/82.

6. Ibid.

7. Ibid.

8. San Francisco Chronicle, 9/20/82.

9. Off-the-record interview.

10. Ibid.

11. San Francisco Chronicle, 5/31/79.

12. Wall Street Journal, 6115/79.

13. Reagan news conference, 10118/82.

14. Interview, W Kenneth Davis, August 1982.

15. Wall Street Journal, 7/31184.

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE

l. Off-the-record interview, April 1987.

2. Wall Street Journal, 6/6/84.

3. Interview, Stephen D. Bechtel, Jr., July 1984.

4. San Francisco Chronicle, l/15/85.

5. Ibid.

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6. Ibid.

7. Interview, Raynal Mayman, March 1986.

8. Off-the-record interview.

9. SDB, Jr., interview.

10 . Wall Street Journal, 6/6/84.

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11. Bechtel Briefs, May 1987.

12. Ibid.

13. Ibid.

14. Ibid.

15. Interview, John L. Lynch, April1985.

16. Off-the-record interview.

17. Off-the-record interview.

18. Off-the-record interview.

19. Mayman interview.

20. Interview, Donald Hassler, September 1984.

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INDEX

Abdullah, Prince of Saudi Arabia, 88

aircraft-building contracts awarded by,

Acheson, Dean, 75, 91

66-67

Adams, Sherman, 109

Aircraft Modification Plant of, 66-70

AFL-CIO, 165, 168-69

Alaska pipeline and, 61-62, 65

Africa, 124-25

Corps of Engineers of, 62-63, 65n,

Agnew, Robert W, 86-87

190

Agnew, Spiro, 160

Sources of Supply Command of,

aircraft industry, 66-70, 108

61-62

Air Force, U.S., 78n, 92

Asad AI Faqih, Sheik, 93n

Air Force Department, U.S., 98, 99, 108

Asia Foundation, 119

Air Policy Commission, McCone’s

Aspin, Les, 164

position in, 97-98, 99

Atlantic Richfield, 15 -16

Ajax, Operation, 116, 123

atomic bomb:

Alaska, pipeline construction in, 61-66,

development of, 65n, 97, 101

70, 153-54, 191-92, 209, 212-13

Indian detonation of, 202-3, 206

Alexander, George P., 67-69

Atomic Energy Act, (1954), 103

Algeria, 138, 153, 159, 164, 200—

Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), 198,

221

202

Allen and Co., 144

Bechtel awarded contracts by, 103,

Allied Chemical Corporation, 119, 13 7

105-6

Aly eska, Pipeline Service Company,

Doomsday study run by, 101-2

153n-54n

McCone’s appointment to, 100, 101,

American Expeditionary Force, 47

108-12

American Federation of Labor (AFL),

nuclear plant problems noted by,

39, 105-6, 167-68

199-201

American Jewish Congress, 193

Nuclear Reactor Test Station of, 103

American University of Beirut, 128n

Reactor Development Division of, 103

Anderson, Clinton P., 108

Steve senior’s friends at, 104

Anderson, Robert 0., 15

“Atoms for Peace” (Eisenhower), 103

Anti-Defamation League (ADL), 184,

186-87, 193-96

Arabian American Oil Company

Babbitt, Bruce, 230n-31n

(Aramco), 83, 90, 92, 192

Bahrain, 92, 115

Bechtel’s falling out with, 136

refinery facilities and storage tanks

intelligence activities of, 115, 118, 120

built in, 83-84

in Saudi pipeline operation, 84-85,

Bank of America, 76

87, 121

Barkley, A. J., 20-21

Arabian Bechtel Company, Ltd., 211-12

Bay Area Rapid Transit Sy stem (BART),

Army, U.S., 12

191-92, 215

Air Corps of, 66

Bay Bridge, 44

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Bechtel, Alice Elizabeth, see Eubanks,

military service of, 130-3I

Alice Elizabeth Bechtel

nuclear power as obsession of, 224,

Bechtel, Arthur, 22-23

229

Bechtel, Barbara, See Davies, Barbara

on ownership of Bechtel, I2-13

Bechtel

personal wealth of, I4n

Bechtel, Betty Hogan, 131, 134, 235

physical appearance of, 11, 139

Bechtel, Clara Alice West, I9-20,

presidency assumed by, I3 5

24-25, 28

sailing and hiking enjoyed by, I30

husband’s death and, 45-46

Saudi dealings of, 2IO-ll

Bechtel, Elizabeth, I8

Shultz and, I66-67, I69, I72-73,

Bechtel, Gary, 234, 236, 237

I79, I8I, 2I7, 2I9, 22I-22, 238

Bechtel, John Moyer, I8

succession of, 13I-34, I70

Bechtel, Kenneth, 2I, 24, 46, 214

in Texaco pipeline construction, I40—

description of, 4 7

14I

in shipbuilding, 59-60

Weinberger and, I78, I80-8I, 2I8

Steve senior’s relationship with, 50,

Bechtel, Stephen Davison, Sr., 14-I5,

54, 72

22, 26, I68, I88n

Bechtel, Laura Adaline Peart, 48, 72, 73,

academic background of, 4 7-48

138, 235

affiliation with GE established by,

children raised by, I30-3I

106-8

Christmas celebrated by, I26-27,

as ambitious, 47, 49

I28-29

Arab Boy cott and, I83-84, I92

constancy of, 94, I28

atomic power utilized by, I 0 I-2,

frugality of, I28-29

I04-7, Il l

Bechtel, Ltd., 238

on Bechtel’s economic problems, 231

Bechtel, Nancy Slusser, 73n

birth of, 20

Bechtel, Nonie, see Ramsey, Nonie

Black’s friendship with, 76-77

Bechtel

Boulder Dam construction and,

Bechtel, Riley, 234, 236, 237-38

48-49, 52-53

Bechtel, Shana, see Johnstone, Shana

Broadway Tunnel construction and,

Bechtel

50-51, 140

Bechtel, Stephen Davison, Jr., 48, 89,

Carlyle get-togethers held by, 138-39

106-7, I68, 206, 2I4, 228

charitable contributions of, I28

Alaska pipeline project and, 154n

children raised by, I29-31

anonymity as passion of, II, 139

Christmas celebrated by, I26-27, I29,

Arab Boycott and, I92

134

as assassination target, I2

clients pursued by, 77-78, 84, 95-96,

Bechtel’s economic problems and,

106-8, I27-28, 135-38

230n,231-34,238-39

conflict of interest charges against, 164

childhood of, I29-30

coterie of, 73-76

children raised by, 234-38

energy of, 135-36

Christmas celebrated by, I26-27, 134

family friction with, 49-50

company old guard scrutinized by,

father compared with, 49-50, 71, 76

I4I-42

father’s employment of, 48-49

education of, 130-3I

government posts held by, II2, I 54,

father compared with, 139-40, 14I

I56-57, I59-60,