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...Leader Walid Jumblatt, former Prime Minister Rashid Kararrti and former President Suleiman Franjieh. The committee would be assisted by foreign observers, from either France or Italy, as Gemayel prefers, or perhaps from Saudi Arabia or Yugoslavia, as some of the opposition groups advocate. After that, Saudi Arabia's King Fahd would issue an invitation to Gemayel and other Lebanese leaders to come to Saudi Arabia for a conference on national reconciliation. Among the topics that would be on the agenda: power sharing within Lebanon, a new balance in the government, the withdrawal of all foreign forces, and perhaps even...
...original promise that when others withdrew, they would withdraw." That is the essence of the message U.S. Special Envoy Robert McFarlane is expected to carry to Syria on his first swing through the region this week, meeting with Jordan's King Hussein and Saudi Arabia's King Fahd, among others. There is no indication, however, that the argument will change Syrian President Hafez Assad's mind...
...Secretary of State stopped first in Saudi Arabia to find out how much pressure the Saudis were willing to exert on Syria. It is the holy month of Ramadan, and Shultz had to wait in Jidda while King Fahd spent the day at prayer in Mecca. The two finally met after midnight. In the course of the talks, which went on until 2:30 a.m., Saudi officials made it clear that they were not going to lean on Assad; they felt that the Israeli-Lebanese agreement favored Jerusalem...
...University's and the Museum's standards for private philanthropy. "We would never be able to accept a gift with strings or conditions attached to it," said O'Reilly, "but in this case, there were no strings and no conflict of interest at all "She added that the Fahd gift in no way seeks to control the scope or direction of the Semitic Museum's research, and that the foreign grant was treated like any routine donation...
...they did not consider the latest Syrian rebuffs "a final closing of the door." They noted that only two Arab states, Libya and South Yemen, have joined Syria in denouncing the agreement, while Egypt and Algeria have expressed their support. Most Arab leaders, including Saudi Arabia's King Fahd, whom Assad visited two weeks ago, have refrained from taking a position...