Word: fahd
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Washington, President Reagan wrote to Saudi Arabia's King Fahd to emphasize the Administration's continuing support of Saudi Arabia and its commitment to freedom of navigation in the gulf. The President said the U.S. would back this up with military aid if requested to do so by the Saudis and their allies. The Saudis temporized, grateful for the show of support but reluctant to do anything that might further antagonize Iran's Khomeini. Apparently for the same reason, Saudi warplanes have refrained from engaging in combat with the Iranian aircraft that have attacked the gulf tankers...
...withdrawal came from another unexpected source last week: Saudi Arabia. Speaking to a delegation of visiting U.S. businessmen in Riyadh, Crown Prince Abdullah said that the U.S. troops should be getting Israeli forces out of Lebanon. Syria, he noted, would follow suit. Such advice from Abdullah, who is King Fahd's half brother and Deputy Prime Minister, astounded U.S. officials. Not only have the Saudis been urging Washington to stand fast in Lebanon, but they have been the prime brokers in negotiating a Lebanese security pact...
...strongest supporters at Casablanca was Yasser Arafat, who demonstrated that, despite the adversities he has suffered during the past year, he has retained the backing of most Islamic states. Lebanon was scarcely mentioned, if only because delegates found it difficult to say anything constructive. Saudi Arabia's King Fahd, in calling again on the Israelis to withdraw from Lebanon, claimed to be "optimistic" about the ability of the Lebanese "to achieve national unity," but he said it without particular conviction. -By William E. Smith...
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...