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Kissinger, in the week leading to Geneva, continued a whirlwind Middle East search for conciliation that left even his Arab hosts breathless. From conferences in Cairo with President Anwar Sadat, Kissinger flew on to Saudi Arabia for his second meeting in five weeks with King Feisal on the question of Arab oil for the U.S. From there his blue and white jet flew on to Damascus for the first visit in two decades of a U.S. Secretary of State to Syria. Kissinger had a cordial meeting with President Hafez Assad, but their conversations ended in a diplomatic impasse. Assad refused...
...Francisco Sir / For Man of the Year, Saudi Arabia's King Feisal-the Prince of Darkness...
Back in Saudi Arabia, Yamani went into government service. In 1958 he was appointed legal adviser to the nation's Council of Ministers, and by 1962 was Minister of Oil. Deeply trusted by King Feisal, he was in constant contact with Aramco, the giant U.S. oil company...
...nations who assembled for the sixth pan-Arab summit since 1964 were Marxist revolutionaries and Moslem kings, sheiks in flowing robes and guerrillas in commando uniform. Egyptian President Anwar Sadat showed up in a neatly tailored suit of banker's blue; Saudi Arabia's King Feisal wore a richly brown bisht with gold trim. While most of the delegates flew into Algiers' Dar el Beida airport, where they were greeted with 21-gun salutes and an honor guard with turbans and flashing swords, Morocco's King Hassan II arrived aboard the French cruise ship Roussillon, which...
...Feisal, the principal apostle of a hard line on oil, persuaded the summit to continue the embargo on oil shipments to nations that support Israel. Some subtle variations were voted, however. Rhodesia, South Africa and Portugal were added to the list of embargoed nations, which also includes The Netherlands and the U.S. Japan and the Philippines were spared a further 5% production cut. European nations, except The Netherlands, were promised relief from scheduled cutbacks so long as they continued to maintain a pro-Arab line...