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...ties in Western Europe. Perhaps most important, they have been trying to come to grips with the potential for internal troubles by controlling the impact of breakneck development and foreign influence on their ultraconservative Muslim culture. As a result, Saudi leadership views the world from the palaces of Riyadh with considerably more confidence than it has in some time-and wants the world to know it. Concludes a long-experienced U.S. observer in Jidda: "The Saudis are determined to get the message across that they are not in immediate jeopardy." Concerned officials and experts in Washington and other capitals tend...
Diplomacy. The Saudi defense buildup is being matched by a major diplomatic effort that readily converts Riyadh's financial clout into political muscle. The Saudi diplomatic watchwords have traditionally been discretion and caution-so much so that Egyptian President Anwar Sadat occasionally upbraided the Saudi rulers as "afraid of their own shadows." Now, noting recent Saudi successes at carving out a mediating role for themselves in the region, one of Sadat's own advisers acknowledges that the Saudis are "no longer seen as weak reactionaries but have a newly acquired respectability...
...five other Persian Gulf states* to lay the political underpinning for a proposed Gulf Council for Cooperation, which would bind the region with formal defense as well as economic and cultural ties. They have improved relations with a radical former adversary, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, to the extent that Riyadh was accused of complicity-or at least patent moral support -in Iraq's original assault against Iran...
...Palestianians scattered throughout the Middle East. The Saudis regard the Palestinian problem as the principal threat to stability in the region, and it is hardly lost on the Saudi leadership that there are an estimated Palestinians in their own country, many of them in highly skilled and influential jobs. Riyadh lately has also called for a jihad, or holy crusade, to liberate the occupied territories...
...years Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani has been Saudi Arabian Oil Minister and Mr. OPEC. Just before leaving for this week's meeting of the oil cartel in Bali, Indonesia, Yamani sat down in his Riyadh office with TIME Correspondent Bruce van Voorst to discuss the energy outlook. Some excerpts from the interview...