Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Saudi Arabia's King Fahd paid a five-day state visit to Washington, the first by a monarch from the Desert Kingdom in 14 years. His principal message: the U.S. has a responsibility to use its influence in an effort aimed at achieving peace between Israel and its Arab neighbors...
...Washington announced that it will confer in Vienna this week with the Soviet Union on Middle East issues. It was the first time the U.S. had scheduled a meeting with the Soviets to formally take note of their views on the Arab-Israeli conflict since 1977, when the two sides jointly called for an international conference in Geneva under United Nations auspices. That initiative was superseded by Anwar Sadat's historic trip to Jerusalem...
...expressed continued faith in the soundness of his 1982 Middle East peace plan, which calls for Palestinian self-government on the West Bank and Gaza Strip in association with Jordan. Fahd's own outline for a Middle East settlement, incorporated the same year into the final declaration of an Arab summit in the Moroccan city of Fez, envisions an independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital...
...appropriately cautious about the Hussein-Arafat meeting. Reagan told reporters: "(From) the little we know about it, it seems as if some progress has been made." If indeed it had, one reason was that Hussein had made skillful preparations. He has taken pains to maintain close ties throughout the Arab world, and last year became the first Arab leader to reestablish diplomatic relations with Cairo since Egypt was ostracized for signing its treaty with Israel in 1979. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's closest political adviser, Osama el Baz, participated in some of the Amman negotiations, and Hussein has helped with...
Arafat's apparent desire to strike a deal with Hussein and shore up his standing with Arab moderates may have stemmed from the decision of several hard-line, Syrian-backed factions of the P.L.O. to boycott the last session of the Palestine National Council, its de facto parliament in exile. At the same time, Syria's drive to become the region's dominant Arab state may have led to a hardening of the will among moderates to reach a new consensus. In any case, the principal question still to be answered from the Hussein-Arafat agreement is how forthrightly...