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Crispin's Day. Elsewhere, the military action was minimal. Saudi Arabia's King Feisal sent a token force to aid the Syrians and Jordan's King Hussein sent 7,000 men, but Hussein wisely avoided hostilities along his country's 300-mile border with Israel...
...Arabs had finally decided to invade; in fact, quite the reverse. Egypt's President Anwar Sadat had been openly telling visiting Western diplomats that the Arabs could not possibly win a war against Israel. His well-publicized fence-mending operation with Saudi Arabia's conservative King Feisal, his urging that Arab oil be used as a long-range commercial and diplomatic weapon against Israel, and the slight rebuke he gave Libya's hawkish strongman Colonel Muammar Gaddafi by delaying the proposed merger of Egypt and Libya-all these acts implied that Sadat was not thinking about imminent...
...gambled that the U.S. would make concessions to the Arabs in its Middle East policy when he kicked the Russians out last year. He lost that gamble. Deciding to place emphasis on Arab self-reliance, he traveled to Saudi Arabia late last month to tighten relations with conservative King Feisal, enlist his aid in oil diplomacy, and persuade him to part with sizable financial aid for Egypt. Sadat also began seeking closer relations with Syria and with the oil-rich Gulf states; he visited Damascus and Qatar and met with the ruler of Kuwait in Cairo...
...main interest at the Cairo summit was not only to bring back together the so-called "confrontation states," but to reactivate the Eastern Front, composed of contingents from Jordan, Saudi Arabia and the Palestine Liberation Army. The idea, which was strongly supported by Hussein's good friend Feisal, was that the regrouped Arab military presence would, at the least, be an inconvenience to Israel, forcing it to deploy additional troops along its frontiers. For his part, Hussein had every reason to seek a rapprochement with Egypt and Syria and a resumption of Arab subsidies so long...
Under pressure from Arab diplomats who mediated between the guerrillas and government officials in Paris, the French reluctantly agreed. The Arab diplomats, however, had trouble finding an airline willing to fly the terrorists, and the delay made the gunmen edgy. Trying to ease the tension, Kuwait Ambassador Feisal Saleh Al-Mutawa stood on the curb outside the embassy and through a megaphone pleaded with the terrorists to be reasonable. Explaining the difficulties in arranging for a getaway plane, he shouted: "We couldn't contact the Arab Foreign Ministers in Algiers during the night. They were sleeping." Retorted the gunmen...