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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...
...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...
Elsewhere as well, terrorist violence continued. At Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, Iraq-based Palestinian gunmen accidentally killed the local Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Seif Bin Ghobash. Their presumed target: Syria's visiting Foreign Minister, Abdul Halim Khaddam. In a remote region of northwestern Africa, guerrillas of the Polisario front, which is seeking independence for the former province of Spanish Sahara, kidnaped two French nationals in Mauritania, bringing to 13 the number of French hostages they are believed to be holding somewhere in Algeria. Following a special Cabinet meeting in Paris, French Defense Minister Yvon...
...Arabs, of course, were dismayed by the agreement. Carter and Vance immediately began testing the working paper on Arab diplomats, including Egypt's Ismail Fahmy and Syrian Foreign Minister Abdel Halim Khaddam. The U.S. strategy was to discuss the working-paper provisions along with other American proposals that the Israelis had not agreed to, in hopes that Arab reaction might lead to further refinements of a formula for Geneva. Apparently the approach worked. As one leading Arab diplomat told TIME, "There have been more pluses than minuses for us in these sessions...
...after a mysterious side trip for some personal diplomacy of his own. He was followed by his counterpart from the most moderate of Israel's adversaries, Ismail Fahmy of Egypt. This week, when Carter and Vance meet with Jordanian Premier Mudar Badran and Syrian Foreign Minister Abdel Halim Khaddam, the talk may turn tougher. Khaddam is expected to urge the U.S. to speed up the peace process by making use of its heavy leverage on Jerusalem...