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...King Hussein's turn to keep Arafat waiting. He spent Friday touring agricultural developments in the Jordan Valley with Oman's Sultan Qaboos bin Said. On Saturday, finally, Hussein received Arafat at the King's hilltop palace, Al Nadwa, overlooking downtown Amman. After lunch with their top advisers, they met for the first of several discussions alone. On leaving, Arafat said only that the meeting had been "positive," but on Sunday, reflecting the shifting nature of their talks, he spoke pessimistically about chances of reaching an agreement with the King...
...buffer between the Indian Ocean and Saudi Arabia, Oman (pop. 948,000) is on a permanent state of alert against its neighbor to the southwest, the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen, or South Yemen, which has the only Marxist regime in the Arab world. Until early 1976 South Yemen fueled a rebellion inside the Dhofar province of Oman, and South Yemen still keeps nine infantry and three artillery battalions, plus 60 Soviet-made tanks, just across the Oman border, as well as 160 more tanks in the rear. The Soviets are expanding an air base at Al Ghaida...
...interview with TIME, the Prime Minister of Bahrain, Sheik Khalifa bin Sulman al Khalifa, said: "I'm all for maneuvers [such as those scheduled for Oman later this year], and I welcome full cooperation with the U.S. in the security of our area, but only on the condition that it is handled and presented properly." Translated, that means "Stay out of sight...
Sultan Qaboos bin Said of Oman is the most forthright, and therefore often the loneliest, of America's friends on the Arabian peninsula. He is also the most optimistic, as TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott found during an interview with the 41-year-old monarch...
...fellow Arabs and his allies in the Reagan Administration. "Fundamentalism in and of itself is not a political threat," he says. "It becomes a threat if it is used as a cover by others- Communists or whomever-to get into people's minds." The Sultan of Oman is determined to defend his country against that possibility...