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Aware of Arafat's desperate need for a new approach, Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Fahd invited him to Riyadh in June. At that meeting, Fahd convinced Arafat of the need for the P.L.O. to build a new relationship with...
...Carter Administration off guard. The President's ambassador-at-large in the Middle East Robert Strauss, mistakenly reported last month that the Saudis were downplaying any possible link between their gift of increased oil production and diplomatic progress on the Palestinian issue. During his appointed trip to Strauss Riyadh, felt in that fact, the the newly Fahd was deliberately distinguishing between the two issues by introducing them separately and without any reference to "linkage." A U.S. expert concluded later: "It was classic Bedouin hospitality to avoid controversial subjects during a get-acquainted visit." The fact is that Saudi leaders...
...bbls. to a total of 9.5 million, enough to ease substantially the current world shortage. U.S. officials denied that there was any link between the military sales and the Saudis' decision to raise their crude production, even though there appears to be a growing rapprochement between Washington and Riyadh after months of strained relations...
...Cairo to Tel Aviv in an official Mystere jet; King Hussein of Jordan dispatched a helicopter to carry him from the Allenby Bridge to Amman; the Saudis sent a Gulfstream II executive jet (with closed-circuit TV) to fly Kissinger, his wife Nancy and his son David, 17, to Riyadh. "What we're doing for Henry," said one Egyptian official, "we normally do only for Presidents and Prime Ministers...
...going into a freefall, the Government may be forced to chop its own receipts instead. But doing so would widen the federal deficit and pump yet more inflation into the economy even as output is declining. Quite a bit of U.S. economic policy is being made as much in Riyadh and Tehran as in Washington...