Word: khalid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...next stop, Riyadh, Carter means to encourage Saudi Arabia's king Khalid and Crown Prince Fahd to continue their efforts to keep oil prices stable. Last month Saudi Arabia was a sponsor of the six-month lid on price increases that the OPEC nations approved at their conference in Caracas. Further, the President wants to urge the Saudi leaders to use their pursestring powers over poorer Arab countries to drum up more support for Middle East peace negotiations in Cairo. Khalid and Fahd will almost certainly seek assurances that the U.S. will press Israel for a solution that...
...been given his matched set of porcelain plates with splendid Winslow Homer paintings on them. There are books on Audubon and Thoreau yet to be distributed along the President's route; the Steuben prism that focuses its light on a golden eagle will be presented to King Khalid, an avid falconer, in Saudi Arabia...
...Riyadh, Vance's reception was hardly more encouraging. When he delivered a personal message from Carter to King Khalid, the Saudi monarch's first question was: "Is it in Arabic?" A government statement said later that the Foreign Minister, Prince Saud, felt "his talks with Secretary Vance reinforced his own natural optimism, which he does not wish to exaggerate." Official members of the Vance party came away convinced that the Saudis will continue to support Sadat, and that they gradually will take a more active behind-the-scenes role in bridging the gap between the Arab camps. Nonetheless...
Crown Prince Fahd and King Khalid forgave and apparently forgot after Sadat sent a high-level emissary to soothe their wounded feelings. The Saudis expressed full understanding of Sadat's objectives and made it clear that they are not opposed to a direct Arab-Israeli dialogue. The Saudis, however, also explained that they could not publicly support Egypt's move lest they weaken the broad range of contacts they have laboriously built up all across the Arab world. They now are in a position to influence such disparate and often inimical regimes as Marxist South Yemen and Somalia...
...although apparently not politically motivated), the kidnaping later that year of Saudi Oil Minister Ahmed Zaki Yahmani at the OPEC meeting in Vienna (a scheme masterminded by Palestinian Leader Wadie Haddad) and last spring's costly fire in one of Saudi Arabia's largest oilfields have made Khalid and Fahd conscious of their country's vulnerability. On one point Riyadh is adamant: Sadat must not sign a separate peace agreement with Israel, though the Saudis will go along with any settlement negotiated by the four confrontation powers. Meanwhile, Riyadh will continue bankrolling the Sadat regime. Explained...