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When Syrian forces began attacking Palestinian troops and their Muslim leftist allies during the Lebanon civil war, a worried Yasser Arafat flew to Saudi Arabia seeking help. To the dismay of the Palestine Liberation Organization leader, the Riyadh government refused to intervene with Damascus. But as a kind of consolation prize, Crown Prince Fahd expansively wrote Arafat a check for $5 million...
...that it really did not matter who headed the Jerusalem government since "the liberation of occupied Arab lands is not dependent on who will come to power in Israel but on Arab solidarity and insistence on the realization of Arab goals." Last week Egyptian President Anwar Sadat met in Riyadh with Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Fahd?who makes his first visit to Washington this week?and Syria's Hafez Assad. The three ledfders found the portents discouraging. If Washington is unable to exert pressure on the new Israeli government for a settlement, one Syrian official said, "any kind...
Thus, if everything goes according to plan, Vance is embarking upon the Carter Administration's most important foreign policy venture yet: an attempt to restore the momentum toward a Middle East peace settlement. For six hectic days, Vance is scheduled to rush from Jerusalem to Cairo, Beirut, Amman, Riyadh and Damascus...
...script for Amman, Riyadh and Damascus is a replay of Cairo. Jordan's King Hussein, however, is distracted by grief over the death of his 28-year-old wife Alia, who was killed last week in a helicopter crash. The quick Lebanon stopover-a brief four hours-is purely symbolic: a demonstration of Washington's sympathy for the enormous reconstruction problems facing that war-ravaged country...
...really took him seriously. "We listened respectfully to Yamani's proposals though we did not accept them," said one oil minister. When the other OPEC chieftains failed to buy his reasoning, Yamani dramatically rose from the conference table and strode out of the hall. He flew to Riyadh for talks with King Khalid ibn Abdul Aziz. The other oil ministers pretended to be unimpressed by Yamani's theatrics. Said Iraq's oil minister, Karim: "It is a big game that he always plays." When word came that Yamani was returning to the conference. Qatar's minister...