Word: riyadh
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Vice President George Bush and a high-level U.S. delegation also flew into Riyadh last week. After keeping the Americans waiting for three hours, the King told them bluntly that the invasion was an outrage and that the U.S. must do everything it could to get the Israelis out of Lebanon. While not accusing Washington of direct complicity in the attack, Fahd blamed the Reagan Administration for acquiescing in the Israeli action. Still, the pragmatic Fahd was thought by some analysts to be secretly pleased at the weakening of the P.L.O. Like Iran's revolutionary fervor, the P.L.O.'s radicalism...
...chief executive of one of the world's wealthiest countries, Fahd has in recent years become something of a workaholic, although he still keeps palatial mansions in Riyadh, London, Marbella, Geneva and on the Riviera, as well as a 3,600-ton yacht, The Atlantis, in which he cruises the Mediterranean. Says Arabist Peter Iseman: "Fahd has a conspicuously more global vision than a great majority of his brothers. Yet being with him is similar to taking a warm bath: he is extremely agreeable, warm, charming, witty." Friends say he is especially devoted to his son Abdul Aziz...
...Fahd is expected to work toward a reconciliation with Egypt, from whom the Saudis have been estranged since Egypt and Israel signed their peace treaty in 1979. In a public gesture that confirmed his declared intention to improve ties with his Arab neighbors, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak flew to Riyadh last week to offer his condolences on Khalid's death. He and Fahd, who remained in discreet contact after 1979, embraced warmly at Riyadh airport...
Foreign ministers of the Gulf Cooperation Council, a loose alliance that links Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Oman, met in Riyadh last week to consider a common plan. At a similar meeting last month, several gulf states had wanted to censure Syria for its support of Iran. The Saudis had argued successfully that Syria should not be isolated, especially since it was the only Arab country in a position to exercise a moderating influence on Iran. Last week Syria's Deputy Foreign Minister, Nasser Qaddour, declared that his country, despite its close ties...
...King's palace in Riyadh, which I visited in November 1973, was on a monumental scale. Preceded by two sword carriers, I was taken to a tremendous hall. Dozens of men (women being strictly segregated) in identical black robes and white headdresses were seated along the walls, immobile and silent. What seemed like 100 yards away on a slightly raised pedestal sat King Faisal ibn Abdul Aziz Al Saud, aquiline of feature, regal of bearing. He rose as I entered, forcing all the princes and sheiks to follow suit in a flowing balletlike movement of black and white...