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...arrival in Riyadh the next day, the Secretary of State was ready to make an airport statement, but the Saudis did not supply him with a microphone. The message was none too subtle: they were ready to hear him out, but only privately. In a meeting with ailing King Khalid (who is due to arrive in Cleveland this week for treatment of a heart condition) and with Crown Prince Fahd, Vance explained the Camp David agreements point by point, answered questions and urged the Saudis to join the peacemaking process. Saudi support, or at least neutrality, is considered crucial...
...chances for success. Because they are worried about the mounting influence of radicals in the Middle East, however, the conservative Saudis reluctantly endorsed Sadat's participation at Camp David in the hope that any peace progress would bolster the position of the moderates. But prior to Sunday night, King Khalid & Co. were running out of patience. Said an Arab official in Cairo of the summit early last week: "It is Sadat's last hurrah...
President Carter announced last night King Hussein of Jordan and King Khalid of Saudi Arabia have agreed to receive Secretary of State Cyrus Vance in meetings which may lead to their participation in upcoming Middle East negotiations...
There is no doubt that the Egyptians, and their moderate Arab allies, are growing increasingly skeptical about the possibility of a dialogue with Begin. As Saudi Arabia's King Khalid bluntly put it on a visit to Kuwait: "Begin does not want peace." The Saudi monarch was pressing his own view that the time has come to ignore Begin and concentrate on what he sees as the real danger to the Middle East: recent Soviet penetration along the Red Sea and in the Horn of Africa, which threatens to encircle the Arabian oilfields and block the Suez Canal...
...help us. The Administration has to put the onus of peacemaking on the Egyptians and Saudis." Carter is not likely to go that far, but he is expected to take some action soon, perhaps this week. As a first step, he sent messages to Begin, Sadat and King Khalid of Saudi Arabia saying that now is the time to start bargaining again...