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...Saudi Arabia's King Fahd paid a five-day state visit to Washington, the first by a monarch from the Desert Kingdom in 14 years. His principal message: the U.S. has a responsibility to use its influence in an effort aimed at achieving peace between Israel and its Arab neighbors...
...Fahd's arrival to a 21-gun salute on the South Lawn of the White House marked only the second time he and President Reagan had met; the first was at the 1981 North-South summit of world leaders in Cancun, Mexico. The Saudis feel that Israel is currently vulnerable, and thus more susceptible than usual to U.S. pressures for a settlement, on two counts: its economy has faltered badly, and Reagan's re-election has temporarily reduced the clout of what the Saudis regard as an overpowering Israeli lobby. "The Palestinian question . . . is the cause of instability and turmoil...
...security of Israel and other nations of the region and the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people can and should be addressed in direct negotiation," Reagan told Fahd. He also expressed continued faith in the soundness of his 1982 Middle East peace plan, which calls for Palestinian self-government on the West Bank and Gaza Strip in association with Jordan. Fahd's own outline for a Middle East settlement, incorporated the same year into the final declaration of an Arab summit in the Moroccan city of Fez, envisions an independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital...
...Israel is considered an important indicator of American commitment to moderate Arab states, as are proposed U.S. arms sales to those countries. Saudi Arabia is scheduled to buy 40 more American F-15 fighter jets, along with missiles and tanks, a sale the Administration intended to announce during King Fahd's visit to Washington next week. But after Rabin argued that the planes would shift the region's military balance, the State Department announced a postponement and a "comprehensive review" of all arms sales to the Middle East...
...pictures were sent to Gaddafi, who immediately took credit for the apparent crime. According to Mubarak, the four gunmen-two of whom were English-revealed details of a Libyan hit list. On it were such leaders as Mitterrand, West Germany's Helmut Kohl, Saudi Arabia's King Fahd, Britain's Margaret Thatcher and India's late Indira Gandhi...