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...Recognize Egypt campaign would be Saudi Arabia, whose prestige and caution make it a nation that many neighbors would be willing to follow. TIME'S Philip Finnegan reports that for the past two years Saudi Arabian officials have been holding secret talks with the Egyptians in Cairo and Riyadh. The meetings have covered topics ranging from the Iran-Iraq conflict to the threat of Islamic fundamentalism. Yet even if Saudi Arabia were inclined to renew bonds with Egypt, it would most probably work in harmony with the other gulf states...
...gulf states were slow to react to the tanker attacks. The foreign ministers of the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman and the United Arab Emirates) met in Riyadh. But after almost five hours of talks, the ministers merely condemned the Iranian attacks and said they would appeal to the United Nations Security Council and the Arab League. Extreme caution dominates the thinking of even the most powerful of the gulf nations, Saudi Arabia. Before the Iranian attackers hit the Saudi tanker off Ras Tanura last week, a U.S.-operated AWACS radar plane detected...
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...Reagan does not resolve this before the election, it won't matter what he's done on inflation, the economy, taxes or whatever." Calls for a Marine withdrawal came from another unexpected source last week: Saudi Arabia. Speaking to a delegation of visiting U.S. businessmen in Riyadh, Crown Prince Abdullah said that the U.S. troops should be getting Israeli forces out of Lebanon. Syria, he noted, would follow suit. Such advice from Abdullah, who is King Fahd's half brother and Deputy Prime Minister, astounded U.S. officials. Not only have the Saudis been urging Washington to stand...
Several experts argue that the frantic pace of gulf development would have slowed even without the current recession. "We were saturated with buildings and offices," says Riyadh's Toaimi. Adds a banker whose firm has helped finance Saudi projects: "Construction will never see a boom like the one we had here in the ten years since 1973." That, in the view of many Arabs, is probably for the best. "We did not have time to think about what we were doing," concedes Yousef Shirawi, Bahrain's Minister of Development and Industry: "Perhaps this pause will be very good...