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Still, before the Baker-Aziz meeting, several senior members of the royal family had privately told President Bush that they feared "strains in our % society" if Desert Shield continues indefinitely and inconclusively. A top Administration Arabist has predicted that if American forces are still camped in the desert during the holy month of Ramadan, which begins in mid-March, the result could be "an increase in clandestine opposition from religious extremists, with possible destabilizing results." Many Saudis reacted with something like relief to the apparent breakdown of diplomacy last week. If there is to be a military moment of truth...
Hussein's relations with Iraq have warmed over the past decade, mainly as a shield against rising fundamentalism and Israel's designs to turn his kingdom into a Palestinian state. He has had to acknowledge the pan-Arabist, anti-U.S. passions of his citizens -- at least half of whom are Palestinian -- which have only increased as the peace process has stalled. Hussein refused to join the Arab League's original condemnation of Iraq, calling the move premature. "I believe ((Saddam)) is a person to be trusted and dealt with," he declared...
...with Harold Adrian Russell ("Kim") Philby, whose exploits as a Soviet mole inside Britain's Secret Intelligence Service seem breathtaking enough to have been crafted by a master of the thriller genre. The son of an eccentric Arabist, Philby entered Communism's orbit while at Cambridge in the 1930s. Carefully disguising those links, he joined Britain's SIS and rose high enough in its ranks to rate consideration as its potential chief. Yet by the time he disappeared in 1963, only to surface in the Soviet Union a few months later, it was painfully clear that Philby all along...
...Administration was already divided over its policy toward Israel. The foreign policy bureaucracy, overwhelmingly Arabist in its approach to the Middle East and in its sympathies, saw the crisis as an opportunity to open direct negotiations between the U.S. and the P.L.O...
...world's wealthiest countries, Fahd has in recent years become something of a workaholic, although he still keeps palatial mansions in Riyadh, London, Marbella, Geneva and on the Riviera, as well as a 3,600-ton yacht, The Atlantis, in which he cruises the Mediterranean. Says Arabist Peter Iseman: "Fahd has a conspicuously more global vision than a great majority of his brothers. Yet being with him is similar to taking a warm bath: he is extremely agreeable, warm, charming, witty." Friends say he is especially devoted to his son Abdul Aziz, 9, and sometimes interrupts business meetings...