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...unifying factor at a time when the country is riven with inner turmoil. In what appears to be an effort to dampen dissent against his harsh rule, Khomeini has launched a campaign to curb the excesses of the Islamic Guards and the clergy. In an eight-point directive issued Dec. 15, he ordered an end to unlawful arrests and urged respect for human rights, private property and individual privacy. Last week Khomeini took yet another popular step: he had the leadership of the small pro-Moscow Tudeh (Communist) Party arrested on charges of treason and espionage for the Soviet Union...
...Department officials say that the private reaction was favorable. Saudi King Fahd was said to be "upbeat." An additional reason for the Administration's speed-up in presenting its own plan was to influence Arab deliberations at the Fez summit. At best, the summit might have endorsed an eight-point plan advanced last year by King Fahd. While that plan contains an implicit recognition of Israel's right to exist, it also insists on an independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital. Administration officials feared the summit would reject even that plan and take a strong...
...some analysts to be secretly pleased at the weakening of the P.L.O. Like Iran's revolutionary fervor, the P.L.O.'s radicalism represents a potential threat to the stability of the Arab world. Fahd was also known to be unhappy about the P.L.O.'s failure to support publicly the eight-point Middle East peace plan he proposed last year...
Last year Fahd was the architect of an eight-point peace plan for the Middle East. The plan called for the withdrawal of Israel to its pre-1967 boundaries, for the establishment of a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital, and for the right of "all states in the region" to live in peace. Implicitly, Fahd had become one of the first Arab leaders outside Egypt to offer to recognize Israel's right to exist. President Reagan praised the plan as a "hopeful sign," but it was flatly rejected by Israel...
...State Department's eight-point proposal for discussion with Managua marked, it seemed a milestone, a signal that the U.S. realized what others had noticed long ago--that 15 months of diatribes and threats had, if anything, turned our fears about a Soviet-Nicaraguan alliance into a self-fulfilling prophecy. Cut off from all Western aid. Nicaragua had been forced to look East for badly needed international recognition and foreign exchange Under the new State Department plan, the U.S. agreed to end efforts to weaken the Sandinista government, promised to oppose any Bay-of-Pigs-like invasion of angry exiles...