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Arafat's room to maneuver was also cramped by his dependence on Syria, which helps sustain the P.L.O. as a military force. Syrian Prime Minister Abdul-Rauf Kassem has criticized the Fahd plan as "ineffective." But Foreign Minister Abdul Halim Khaddam is known to favor it, and President Hafez Assad has yet to be convinced. Should the Syrians and the P.L.O. finally side with the Saudis, other intransigent states like Algeria would probably go along, leaving Libya the main opposition to the plan...
...Sadat made a traditional stop on the way to the parade, paying his respects and praying at the grave of his predecessor, Gamal Abdel Nasser, in nearby Heliopolis. Then the President climbed into an open-roofed limousine, accompanied by eight bodyguards, to join Mubarak and Defense Minister General Abdel Halim Abu Ghazala for the short ride to Nasr City...
...same area of Upper Egypt: First Lieut. Khaled Ahmed Shawki el-Istambuli, who commanded an artillery battery, and two former lieutenants and a reserve officer. As a legitimate participant in the parade, Khaled had ordered other troopers off their truck and substituted the assassins. According to Defense Minister Abdel Halim Abu Gha-zala, the four had purchased on the black market the grenades and guns they used in the attack. "It was very primitive, but successful," said Abu Ghazala. "At this point we do not believe they are part of a larger group...
There were indications that an Arab-initiated solution for the missile confrontation was still being zealously pursued. Syrian Foreign Minister Abdel Halim Khaddam made a quick trip to Saudi Arabia carrying a message from Assad to King Khalid. It was the third such exchange in the past two weeks about the specifics of an arrangement to persuade the Syrians to remove their missiles in return for some modification of the Israelis' reconnaissance flights over Lebanon. To sweeten the deal, the Saudis are reported to have already delivered $1 billion of a $4 billion economic and financial package to Damascus...
...Libya and Iraq, and all such efforts have ended in failure. Moreover, few details of the new merger have been agreed upon. So far the new partnership has no name, no head of state, no constitution, no joint institutions, no capital city. Nonetheless, Syria's Foreign Minister Abdel Halim Khaddam was dispatched to Saudi Arabia and five other Arab states to seek their blessing and invite one and all to join...