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...August, Crown Prince Fahd announced a peace plan for the Middle East. Among other things, this plan called for a transitional United Nations trusteeship over the West Bank and Gaza until the establishment of an independent Palestinian state. Abdullah acknowledged that Fahd's initiative implicitly recognizes the existence of Israel, a potentially important concession: "The initiative was proposed after the Camp David accords were considered dead or at least dying. Our plan recognizes the right of Israel to exist only after, the acceptance of a Palestinian state, the return to the 1967 borders and an end to the state...
Only twelve hours before the start of the dramatic Senate roll-call vote on the AWACS, Prince Abdullah ibn Abdul Aziz of Saudi Arabia received a group of businessmen and TIME editors at his palace in Riyadh. Since King Khalid was ill and Crown Prince Fahd was out of the country, Abdullah, commander of the 30,000-man national guard, was the ranking member of the royal family...
...enough budgetary problems, so I hope you don't make us spend more for arms." And, wonder of wonders, Reagan's advisers reported that the President did not bring up the much contested plan to sell AW ACS planes to Riyadh in his chat with Crown Prince Fahd of Saudi Arabia (see following story...
...policy will be one of continuation of the Sadat legacy." Assuming that all goes well domestically, U.S. officials agree that, in time, Mubarak will seek ways to renew ties with his Arab neighbors and look for alternative approaches to peace. Many Western diplomats believe that Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Fahd's plan, announced two months ago, which offered peace to Israel in exchange for Israeli withdrawal from territory occupied in 1967, was a constructive effort to enlarge the scope of the negotiations...
...Fahd plan, TIME has learned, was worked out in close consultation with Arafat and thus might provide a basis for bringing the P.L.O. into the peace process. But that prospect is still anathema to the Israelis. As William Quandt, a Middle East expert, observes, "The hardest thing for Mubarak to do in the next six months is going to be to send reassuring and credible signals to the Israelis while at the same time beginning the slow process of rebuilding ties to the Saudis, the gulf states and Jordan...