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...Hafez Assad, who wants to impose a settlement that will suppress Palestinian guerrilla activity and assure Syrian influence throughout the region, refused to attend any such meeting. Then, under pressure from Saudi Arabia, Assad agreed to confer with Arab leaders gathered over the weekend at the Saudi capital of Riyadh. After the talking was over, the prospect was that Syria would continue to push its offensive...
Heavy Pressure. As the interminable warfare continued, the Egyptian and Syrian Prime Ministers met in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to try to at least paper over the feud that has strained relations between their two countries since Egypt signed the interim Sinai agreement with Israel last September. The quarrel over the Sinai forced Egypt and Syria into somewhat artificial opposition over Lebanon. After the Syrian intervention, it ironically appeared that...
...Harvard administrator, the oil crisis and the resultant world redistribution of income caused a mad dash of American university presidents over to the Persian Gulf in search of grant money; presidents were often nonplussed to run into several of their colleagues at once in the lobby of the Riyadh Hilton. But one president nobody ever ran into over there was President Bok. He didn't have to go; they came...
Assad's plight was aggravated last week when a meeting of the Prime Ministers of four nations-Egypt, Syria, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait-that had been scheduled in the Saudi Arabian capital of Riyadh was suddenly postponed. The meeting had been set up by the Saudis and Kuwait to heal the long-simmering feud between Syria and Egypt. But the Egyptians flatly refused to discuss the principal reason for the feud-last year's Egyptian-Israeli disengagement agreement in Sinai, which Syria still resents. The Syrians, meanwhile, would not listen to Egyptian proposals for a debate...
...Athens, which is 1,500 miles from Tehran and 1,800 miles from Riyadh? The competition was weak, for one thing. Cairo does not have enough suitable offices, homes and hotel rooms to accommodate a big foreign business community, and its communications system barely operates. Jordan's capital, Amman, has better facilities but lacks the essential cosmopolitan ambience...