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...next stop, Riyadh, Carter means to encourage Saudi Arabia's king Khalid and Crown Prince Fahd to continue their efforts to keep oil prices stable. Last month Saudi Arabia was a sponsor of the six-month lid on price increases that the OPEC nations approved at their conference in Caracas. Further, the President wants to urge the Saudi leaders to use their pursestring powers over poorer Arab countries to drum up more support for Middle East peace negotiations in Cairo. Khalid and Fahd will almost certainly seek assurances that the U.S. will press Israel for a solution that...
...quiet partner of virtually every Arab nation is Saudi Arabia, whose oil-enriched coffers support Egypt, Syria and the P.L.O. But King Khalid and Crown Prince Fahd did not endorse either Anwar Sadat's proposal for a pre-Geneva summit in Cairo or Muammar Gaddafi's call for an anti-Egypt rejection-front meeting in Tripoli. What are the Saudis up to? TIME Cairo Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn flew to Jeddah and sent this analysis...
Crown Prince Fahd and King Khalid forgave and apparently forgot after Sadat sent a high-level emissary to soothe their wounded feelings. The Saudis expressed full understanding of Sadat's objectives and made it clear that they are not opposed to a direct Arab-Israeli dialogue. The Saudis, however, also explained that they could not publicly support Egypt's move lest they weaken the broad range of contacts they have laboriously built up all across the Arab world. They now are in a position to influence such disparate and often inimical regimes as Marxist South Yemen and Somalia...
...politically motivated), the kidnaping later that year of Saudi Oil Minister Ahmed Zaki Yahmani at the OPEC meeting in Vienna (a scheme masterminded by Palestinian Leader Wadie Haddad) and last spring's costly fire in one of Saudi Arabia's largest oilfields have made Khalid and Fahd conscious of their country's vulnerability. On one point Riyadh is adamant: Sadat must not sign a separate peace agreement with Israel, though the Saudis will go along with any settlement negotiated by the four confrontation powers. Meanwhile, Riyadh will continue bankrolling the Sadat regime. Explained a high Saudi official...
...Jimmy Carter, since his call in Clinton, Mass., last March for a Palestinian homeland, has been overriding that commitment with subtle but unmistakable overtures to the Palestinians. Responding to the President's initiative, Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Fahd recently got Arafat to send Carter a message pledging Palestinian moderation; Fahd himself delivered it during his White House visit in May. Carter has continued the indirect dialogue: in an interview with TIME earlier this month, he reiterated his position urging the P.L.O. to accept the United Nations Security Council Resolution 242, which calls for recognition of Israel...