Word: fez
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Special Envoy Philip Habib had failed to make further progress in defusing the seven-month armed stalemate between Israel and Syria over the presence of Syrian SA-6 missiles in eastern Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. Another was the failure of last month's Arab League summit in Fez, Morocco, at which Syria led the hard-line attack on the eight-point Middle East peace plan proposed by Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Fahd...
...East peace plan. It ended after 5½ hours of bickering as yet another milestone in the 30-year Arab tradition of political disarray. The twelfth summit meeting of the 21-member Arab League, held briefly and acrimoniously last week behind the venerable battlements of the Moroccan city of Fez, undermined the prestige of the royal House of Saud, which had striven mightily to bring the conclave to a successful outcome. Yet even as the angry Saudi leaders stalked to their waiting aircraft, it was by no means clear that their efforts to find an alternative to the sputtering Camp...
...center of the squabbling at Fez, where Morocco's King Hassan II played host, was the eight-point peace proposal outlined last August by Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Fahd. The plan offers tacit recognition of Israel's right to exist in exchange for, among other things, a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital. Bitterly opposed by the Israelis, the plan was conceived by the cautious Saudis to achieve an Arab consensus...
...Algeria's Bendjedid Chadli, Marxist South Yemen's Ali Nasser Mohammed and Iraq's Saddam Hussein, who was still smarting from Israel's surprise raid last June on the nuclear reactor in Baghdad. In all, eight top-level Arab leaders failed to go to Fez, including Syria's President Hafez Assad, who sent in his place Foreign Minister Abdel Halim Khaddam...
P.L.O. officials also warned that Israel was planning an imminent assault on southern Lebanon, ostensibly to weaken Palestinian artillery positions. Some feared an attack could come this week as Arab leaders gather for a summit meeting in Fez, Morocco. The most likely item on their agenda: Saudi Arabia's eight-point peace plan, which calls for a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, while implicitly recognizing Israel by upholding the "right of the countries of the region to live in peace." An Israeli move into southern Lebanon would almost certainly scuttle the Saudi peace plan...