Word: riyadh
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...President Reagan. In separate sessions with the Saudis, Haig and Clark outlined the same U.S. position, but Clark appeared to the Arab leaders to be much more sympathetic to their general views, which naturally were anti-Israeli. TIME also has learned that Saudi Ambassador Alhegelan inaccurately flashed word to Riyadh that Clark had said the Israelis were willing to pull back. Throughout the week, Saudi Arabia's King Fahd and Foreign Minister Prince Saud al Faisal had been in constant contact with the P.L.O. and occasionally with the Lebanese. The P.L.O. was not alone in its belief that...
Vice President George Bush and a high-level U.S. delegation also flew into Riyadh last week. After keeping the Americans waiting for three hours, the King told them bluntly that the invasion was an outrage and that the U.S. must do everything it could to get the Israelis out of Lebanon. While not accusing Washington of direct complicity in the attack, Fahd blamed the Reagan Administration for acquiescing in the Israeli action. Still, the pragmatic Fahd was thought by some analysts to be secretly pleased at the weakening of the P.L.O. Like Iran's revolutionary fervor, the P.L.O.'s radicalism...
...chief executive of one of the world's wealthiest countries, Fahd has in recent years become something of a workaholic, although he still keeps palatial mansions in Riyadh, London, Marbella, Geneva and on the Riviera, as well as a 3,600-ton yacht, The Atlantis, in which he cruises the Mediterranean. Says Arabist Peter Iseman: "Fahd has a conspicuously more global vision than a great majority of his brothers. Yet being with him is similar to taking a warm bath: he is extremely agreeable, warm, charming, witty." Friends say he is especially devoted to his son Abdul Aziz...
...Fahd is expected to work toward a reconciliation with Egypt, from whom the Saudis have been estranged since Egypt and Israel signed their peace treaty in 1979. In a public gesture that confirmed his declared intention to improve ties with his Arab neighbors, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak flew to Riyadh last week to offer his condolences on Khalid's death. He and Fahd, who remained in discreet contact after 1979, embraced warmly at Riyadh airport...
...tribe. There had been talk that Abdullah might be passed over in favor of Prince Sultan, also a Sudairi. The power of the Sudairi brothers within the Saudi hierarchy is substantial: in addition to Fahd and Sultan, they include Prince Naif, Minister of the Interior; Prince Salman, governor of Riyadh; and Prince Ahmed, deputy governor of Mecca. By strictly respecting the line of succession, the elders avoided the dangers of a family breach and ensured a judicious balance of personalities j ^ ^ and powers at the top of the government. In effect, diplomats say, the Khalid-Fahd "duarchy" in Saudi Arabia...