Word: feisal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President Anwar Sadat was closeted at his country home, 50 miles north of Cairo, with Libya's mercurial strongman, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. Sadat had just concluded a jet-propelled, hush-hush tour of his own to two oil-rich neighbors and Syria. With Saudi Arabia's King Feisal and the Emir of Qatar, Sadat had discussed how best to use Arab oil and funds in the fight against Israel, and had wrung promises of lavish support. These commitments strengthened Sadat by leaving him less dependent on money from Libya's bubbling black gold...
...standard, the Arabs seem hopelessly divided, ranging from the reactionary monarchy of Saudi Arabia's King Feisal to the quasi-Maoist regime of South Yemen. The extent of their differences can also be measured by their varying attitudes toward Israel. The military dictatorships of Libya and Iraq profess undying enmity for Israel and call for its extinction. The smaller states of Jordan and Lebanon, which border on Israeli power, favor a quick and peaceful resolution of differences. Egypt, under Anwar Sadat, agonizes over its past humiliations but has no wish to resume fighting, and this is largely true...
Egypt's Anwar Sadat, who has recently been pressing a diplomatic campaign to enlist sympathy for the Arab viewpoint, remained pointedly silent. So did King Feisal of Saudi Arabia, once a noted financial contributor to the Palestinians. He could hardly have been pleased that the attack took place in the Saudi embassy and that the Saudi ambassador was one of the five hostages. Even Yasser Arafat, the leader of Al-Fatah, the largest Palestinian nationalist group, made a point of trying (some what unconvincingly) to dissociate his organization from Black September...
Unguided Missile. Because the oil-rich Saudis need hardly anything in the way of aid from the U.N. and Baroody has King Feisal's total confidence, he is probably freer than any other diplomat to say exactly what he thinks. Which he does, interminably. A slightly stooped, balding man with an appreciative eye for a well-turned leg, he has a point of order for every occasion, and when colleagues show annoyance at his interruptions, he faces them down with a schoolmaster's glare. During the recent debate on the admission of China, he overheard one diplomat...
...Christian. He can deliver anti-Western diatribes with as much vigor and vitriol as a 1950s Pravda editorial, yet he has an American wife and his four children received U.S. educations. A product of the American University in Beirut, Baroody has been a friend of King Feisal since their youth. He supervised the education abroad of the King's seven sons, and is reputedly adviser on the royal investments...