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...center of the squabbling at Fez, where Morocco's King Hassan II played host, was the eight-point peace proposal outlined last August by Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Fahd. The plan offers tacit recognition of Israel's right to exist in exchange for, among other things, a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital. Bitterly opposed by the Israelis, the plan was conceived by the cautious Saudis to achieve an Arab consensus...
Prior to last week's summit, the Fahd plan had drawn favorable comment from Western Europe, mild encouragement from the Reagan Administration and qualified endorsement from Palestine Liberation Organization Leader Yasser Arafat, who called it a "good beginning." Two weeks ago, the plan was approved by the five Persian Gulf states that, along with the Saudis, constitute the newly formed Gulf Cooperation Council...
...that P.L.O. units in southern Lebanon were rapidly building up their artillery and rocket arsenals in defiance of a July cease-fire agreement. He also complained of the continuing presence there of Syrian antiaircraft missiles. Accusing the U.S. and Europe of ignoring the problem while they flirted with the Fahd plan, Sharon warned that if "political means" failed to get results, "Israel will have to act." As the search for peace continued, so did the threat of war. - By Thomas A. Sancton. Reported by David Aikman/Cairo and William Stewart/Riyadh...
...essence, the Fahd plan does not differ basically from the general position that the moderate Arab states have maintained since the Rabat summit in 1974. The eight-point proposal contains some elements that clearly are acceptable to all sides, some that appear negotiable and others that now seem to defy all efforts at compromise. The points and the problems they pose...
While diplomats debated the Fahd peace plan throughout the Middle East, and Arab gulf state potentates met in Riyadh to discuss security arrangements, the U.S. was taking action of quite a different kind last week to buttress the region. The effort involved a long-planned sequence of military exercises in four friendly countries-Egypt, Sudan, Somalia and Oman-occurring over a month's time and involving some 6,000 U.S. personnel. Code-named Bright Star '82, the maneuvers are the biggest trial run yet for the still nebulous U.S. Rapid Deployment Force, which is eventually supposed to have...