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...deep personal antipathy toward Begin, Sadat has grown increasingly impatient over Israeli stalling and U.S. reluctance to put forth a plan of its own, which Cairo thinks would serve to pressure Israel into some concessions. The most important factor, however, is believed to be a new Saudi Arabian campaign for Arab unity, aimed at reconciling Sadat and Syrian President Hafez Assad, who broke with Egypt over Sadat's visit to Jerusalem last November...
...peace." The Saudi monarch was pressing his own view that the time has come to ignore Begin and concentrate on what he sees as the real danger to the Middle East: recent Soviet penetration along the Red Sea and in the Horn of Africa, which threatens to encircle the Arabian oilfields and block the Suez Canal...
...much care for most of Laura Crow's eclectic costumes either. The ones for Olivia's household, post-Elizabethan but still European, are passable. But those for Orsino and his attendants are light organdy dresses that seem to have wandered out of some edition of The Arabian Nights. Is this supposed to be a reverse comment on Viola's transvestism...
Even for the Arabian peninsula, where the art of politics still involves tribal feuds, intrigue, murder and bloody coups, it was an extraordinary week: within 48 hours the Presidents of both North Yemen (the Yemen Arab Republic) and South Yemen (the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen) were killed. The double deaths mean political instability for the two neighboring states at the southwestern tip of the Arabian peninsula. Both countries are strategically important for they can control access to the Strait of Bab el Mandeb, through which pass tankers carrying 60% of the oil used by Western Europe...
...appearance in Washington of sleek limousines rolling away from the city's Madison Hotel to carry Saudi Arabian princes and high officials to meetings with Senators had an impact. American-educated Saudi Prince Turki attended a lunch given by South Dakota's pro-Arab James Abourezk for 22 other Senators. Individually, Turki and another member of the Saudi royal family, Prince Bandar, met with other Senators. Also from Riyadh came Ghazi Algosaibi, Minister of Industry and Power, and Sulaiman As-Salim, Minister of Commerce. All were low-key but sophisticated salesmen who, in excellent English, made a strong...