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...Arab peace plan, provided the Saudis can win approval for it at the 23-nation Arab League summit in Fez, Morocco, on Nov. 25. If the league, which includes the Palestine Liberation Organization, endorses the Fahd plan, the step would be the most important in Arab summitry since the Rabat meeting in 1974 that recognized the P.L.O. as the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people...
...borders. Also, there is some evidence that Hussein wants to re-establish himself as a spokesman for the Palestinian residents of the Israeli-occupied West Bank, which was ruled by Jordan until the 1967 Middle East war. Hussein bitterly recalls how other Arab leaders humiliated him at the 1974 Rabat summit by designating the Palestine Liberation Organization as the sole representative of the Palestinian people. Although he dare not challenge the P.L.O. directly, the King would like to play a major part in some future round of peace negotiations. That means regaining the good will and, if possible, the gratitude...
...such plan obviously requires the cooperation of King Hussein. He not only rejects the Camp David accords but has steered clear of direct involvement in West Bank affairs since a 1974 Rabat summit of Arab leaders recognized the P.L.O. as the sole representative of the Palestinians. Last week Hussein canceled a trip to Washington scheduled for April 17. In its inimitable way, the Carter Administration had neglected to tell him of the Sadat and Begin meetings. Furious, the King informed the White House that the proposed timing of his trip would make it seem as if he were being drawn...
...military forces a new impetus and the Moroccan public a strong boost. One is the Carter Administration's decision to reverse a long-standing U.S. policy by providing Morocco with badly needed arms assistance, notably Bronco planes and helicopter gunships. The other is Rabat's deliberate attempt to modify the army's defensive garrison mentality and try to seize the military initiative with an elite new fighting force. After touring Moroccan positions in the western Sahara for five days, TIME Correspondent David Halevy cabled this report...
...brigade is part of the Moroccan army's elite new Saharan task force, commanded by King Hassan's intelligence chief, Brigadier Achmed Dlimi. This "Uhud Force," named after a battle famous in Arab history, has been given the best of Rabat's military machine: escorting helicopter gunships, air cover from U.S.-made F-5s and advanced French Mirages flying out of Saharan air bases at Laayoun and Dakhia. Young Moroccan officers compete for assignment to Dlimi's force, and more than 60% of the soldiers are native Saharans who know the desert terrain as well...