Word: arabia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...warmup for the foreign policy debate that will soon take center stage. President Anwar Sadat of Egypt arrived in Washington, the first in a series of postvacation Middle Eastern visitors who will include Israel's Prime Minister Menachem Begin, Jordan's King Hussein and Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Fahd. Sadat was met on the White House lawn with great flourish: herald trumpeters played an original composition called A Salute for a New Beginning, and Reagan called the Egyptian "a man whom history will undoubtedly label one of the 20th century's most courageous peacemakers...
...Israel was punishment for the Beirut raid. Word of that disloyalty reached the Secretary, and Neumann was called in for a loud dressing down. The next day, Haig met privately with President Reagan and got permission to fire the ambassador. Last week Neumann, who had been in Saudi Arabia for only two months, announced his resignation "for personal reasons...
...crusade to make the Administration speak with one voice on foreign policy issues, an effort that has sometimes brought him into collision with Weinberger, National Security Adviser Richard Allen and occasionally people in his own department. Neumann had earlier displeased Haig by pushing for the U.S. to sell Saudi Arabia five sophisticated AWACS radar and command center planes, while Haig saw no reason to rush the deal. To make matters worse, when Israel destroyed an Iraqi nuclear power plant in June, Neumann complained that U.S. reaction had been excessively mild...
...shaky status in the Administration is on the rise again. His choice for Neumann's replacement: Ambassador to the Philippines Richard Murphy, 51, a career diplomat with pro-Arab sympathies similar to those of Neumann. Murphy, TIME has learned, was Haig's original choice for the Saudi Arabia post...
...Israelis were worriedly acknowledging. Opposition Leader Shimon Peres flatly called it "a mistake." On the other hand, the Israeli raids on Lebanon called attention to the enormous arms buildup of the P.L.O. over the past six months. The new arms, paid for mainly by Libya, Iraq and Saudi Arabia, include Soviet-made 122-mm howitzers and 130-mm field guns. These weapons have not yet turned the Palestinians into a serious threat to the Israeli armed forces, but they have made it difficult for the Israelis to knock out P.L.O. concentrations with anything short of a full-scale ground attack...