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...Crown Prince Fahd did not endorse either Anwar Sadat's proposal for a pre-Geneva summit in Cairo or Muammar Gaddafi's call for an anti-Egypt rejection-front meeting in Tripoli. What are the Saudis up to? TIME Cairo Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn flew to Jeddah and sent this analysis...
...weapons he sought. Barre then visited Saudi Arabia, whose leaders had been trying to woo him away from Moscow for at least three years as part of their anti-Communist strategy to reinforce moderate regimes along the Red Sea and on the Horn of Africa. Barre came away from Jeddah with a reported promise of $300 million; in return, he presumably promised the Saudis that he would get rid of the Russians in his own good time...
...their crime rate, one of the lowest in the world. But recently an influx of low-income foreign workers-most of them Muslim-has caused an upsurge in crime, suggesting that knowing the laws of the Koran and that they are enforced is not necessarily a deterrent. When a Jeddah merchant left a crate of gold unguarded on the airport tarmac for two weeks, a Somali airport employee found the temptation too much. He began filching gold bars and selling them in the bazaar. Police caught him in the act and he was sent back to Somalia-minus one hand...
...Geneva. Repeating his statement to a Clinton, Mass., town meeting in March, however, Carter declared that "there must be a resolution of the Palestine problem and a homeland for the Palestinians." Assad agrees with other Arab leaders that the creation of a Palestinian state is required for peace. In Jeddah, meanwhile, Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Fahd-who will visit Washington next week-suggested to newsmen that the Palestine Liberation Organization would be willing to recognize Israel's right to exist in return for a Palestinian state on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. U.S. diplomats, however...
Arabs are equally emphatic that Israel must give up some occupied territory-and give it up soon. In Jeddah last week, where they gathered under the auspices of Saudi Arabia's King Khalid, representatives of 40 Islamic nations approved a resolution to expel Israel from the U.N. General Assembly for foot-dragging on withdrawal and refusing to deal with the Palestinians. Anwar Sadat flies to Kampala, Uganda, next week for a meeting of the Organization of African Unity, at which motions similar to the one adopted in Jeddah will be introduced-but probably voted down. Many black African nations...