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Swinging through other Middle East countries on his way home, Kissinger received a mixed reception. Saudi Arabia's King Khalid bestowed a tentative blessing but warned that any Sinai disengagement must be followed by further negotiations over the future of the Golan Heights and Jerusalem. Jordan's King Hussein was in a frosty mood, principally because Congress has drastically chopped his request for $350 million worth of antiaircraft weaponry, including 14 batteries of Hawk missiles. In Damascus, Syria's President Hafez Assad was courteous but stiff; later Assad's Baath Party called the Sinai agreement "strange...
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...
...Northrop, after some haggling, paid $500,000 to a company believed to be controlled by Saudi Prince Khalid bin Abdullah, a registered commercial agent for several companies, for advancing Northrop sales...
Privately, Palestinian leaders fear that they are losing support from heretofore steadfast allies. Saudi Arabia's new King Khalid has in effect acknowledged Israel's right to exist by saying: "Israel can live within her 1967 borders." Russia's Gromyko has gone a step further by suggesting Soviet guarantees for Israel in return for its withdrawal from occupied territories. Said Zuheir Mohsen, leader of the Syria-based Saiqa group within the P.L.O.: "The parties that really need guarantees are the Palestinians and the Arabs. Gromyko made the mistake of picturing the pyramid standing on its head...
...clearly intersected and overlaid by a whole mosaic of economic and technological considerations. It still matters to the U.S., for all the sound traditional reasons, whether the Soviet Union acquires Atlantic Ocean naval facilities from Portugal. But it might matter to us just as much how the new King Khalid of Saudi Arabia and his half-brother Prince Fahd feel about the U.S. The lines of north-south traffic and controversy between the major raw-materials producers and consumers are a kind of Crosshatch over the familiar national lines of conflict and alliance within the northern latitudes...