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...arduous negotiations that led to the truce, Saudi Arabian Prince Bandar ibn Sultan and U.S. Special Envoy Robert McFarlane purposely left certain provisions vague. The three main elements all require further tinkering: 1) the cease-fire will be monitored by "neutral observers"; 2) a Lebanese "security committee" will decide on a permanent force to patrol the Chouf Mountains; and 3) most important, Lebanon's major groups will be called together for a conference of national reconciliation. In addition to President Amin Gemayel, the dozen invitees include Camille Chamoun, head of the Christian Lebanese Front; Pierre Gemayel, the President...
Saudi diplomats in Washington and other capitals have usually been self-effacing and reserved, preferring to make their case in quiet, behind-the-scenes contacts. Not Prince Bandar ibn Sultan, 34, who played an instrumental role in arranging the cease-fire in Lebanon and who has just been appointed as Saudi Arabia's new Ambassador to the U.S. He likes to be in the thick of the action...
...Prince Bandar's royal blood and his savvy about American ways have given him access in Washington unmatched by any other envoy, including the Soviet Union's 21-year veteran Anatoli Dobrynin. The son of Defense Minister Sultan ibn Abdul Aziz and the nephew of King Fahd, Bandar is on a first-name basis with many Washington notables, and has entertained such officials as Secretary of State George Shultz and Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger at his McLean, Va., estate overlooking the Potomac. His $1.6 million Georgian brick house, complete with tennis court and swimming pool, happens...
...Bandar began representing Saudi interests in Washington almost by accident. He was undergoing officers' training at Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala., in 1978 when the Senate faced a decision on whether to authorize the sale of 60 F-15 fighter aircraft to Saudi Arabia. Fahd asked Bandar to lobby in favor of the deal. Using grace and wit, he helped persuade the Senators to approve the $2.5 billion sale. Three years later, when President Reagan proposed the sale of five AWACS radar aircraft to Saudi Arabia, Bandar was a natural choice to make the Saudi case, which...
Another factor was that with Prince Bandar playing an important role in the negotiations, the Syrians would not want to be responsible for an embarrassing Saudi failure. Saudi Arabia, after all, still bankrolls Syria to the tune of almost $ 1 billion a year. More compelling for the Syrians may be the renewed interest that Israel has begun to show in the area it evacuated less than a month ago. Last week the Israeli army stepped up its patrols to the north of the Awali River and sent low-flying reconnaissance planes over central Lebanon. Said a U.S. diplomat: "They have...