Word: fahd
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Defense Secretary, Caspar Weinberger, visited the Middle East last week, carrying with him a sheaf of proposals aimed at strengthening Washington's ties with moderate Arab states. His main port of call was Saudi Arabia, where he spent four days in talks with the influential Crown Prince Fahd, Defense Minister Prince Sultan and Foreign Minister Prince Saud al Faisal. By the time Weinberger left the country, after a negotiating session that lasted almost all night, the principal mystery was why it had taken him and the Saudis so long to agree to so little...
Ever since the signing of the Camp David accords, the Arab states have been bitterly divided. Most of them opposed Camp David but lacked the unity of purpose to present an alternative. Last year Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Fahd proposed a peace plan that might, at least, have formed a basis for negotiation. In effect, the plan would offer Arab recognition, or at least acceptance, to Israel in return for Israeli withdrawal from Arab territory seized in the 1967 war. But, when presented to a pan-Arab summit conference in Fez, Morocco, last October, the proposal proved...
...Syrian President Hafez Assad visited the Saudis, with whom he has often disagreed, and received some support. He and the Saudis may even have laid the ground work for a new pan-Arab summit, at which the Syrians could be expected to endorse a beefed-up version of the Fahd proposals. Assad and the Saudis also agreed to renew their efforts to end the ongoing war between Iran and Iraq, and the Saudis offered to try to mediate Syria's long-standing differences with Iraq and Jordan. The result of this sustained bit of fence mending was to strengthen...
...Syrian SA-6 missiles in eastern Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. Another was the failure of last month's Arab League summit in Fez, Morocco, at which Syria led the hard-line attack on the eight-point Middle East peace plan proposed by Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Fahd...
...Camp David process finally fails to achieve a comprehensive settlement, as most Arabs hope it will, even the radical states may also want to rally be hind the Fahd plan, thus putting more pressure on the U.S. to endorse its general goals. Said an Arab editor last week: "The Fahd plan is only a seed that has been planted now. It can hang around until it is ripe." Saudi patience and Saudi money cannot be discounted too early or too easily in the struggle for a unified Arab peace plan...