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DISPATCHED FROM Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, the three page telex arrived in the officers of two dozen senators the morning of October 28, 1981. Signed the night before by 22 corporate executives on a tour of the Middle East and Eastern Europe sponsored by Time, Inc., the telegram strongly urged the wavering legislators to vote that afternoon for the sale of AWACS aircraft to Saudi Arabia. Senate rejection of the electronic reconnaissance planers, it argued, would "severely damage U.S. credibility in [the] Arab world...
...denied allegation in today's issue of the New Republic that intense Saudi lobbying efforts influenced many American corporations--including some whose representatives signed the tells--to press for the sale. The telex--as at from Riyadh. Saudi Arabia--was not a "Saudi effort" and the group actually found that some Saudi leaders opposed the sale. Horner said...
...timeless ritual of power and brotherhood. Dressed in the long, flowing arbayas of Bedouin chieftains, Saudi King Khalid, Crown Prince Fahd and Prince Abdullah sat in a sumptuous lounge at Riyadh International Airport last week and awaited their royal guests. One by one, special jetliners landed, carrying the rulers of the five Persian Gulf nations that, along with Saudi Arabia, constitute the Gulf Cooperation Council (G.C.C.).* Fahd and Abdullah emerged onto the shimmering tarmac to greet each arriving sheik and sultan, then escorted him in to meet the King. While white-robed Saudi national guardsmen, armed with machine guns...
While diplomats debated the Fahd peace plan throughout the Middle East, and Arab gulf state potentates met in Riyadh to discuss security arrangements, the U.S. was taking action of quite a different kind last week to buttress the region. The effort involved a long-planned sequence of military exercises in four friendly countries-Egypt, Sudan, Somalia and Oman-occurring over a month's time and involving some 6,000 U.S. personnel. Code-named Bright Star '82, the maneuvers are the biggest trial run yet for the still nebulous U.S. Rapid Deployment Force, which is eventually supposed to have...
...Reagan Administration could take no comfort, either, from the outcome of a visit to Riyadh last week by British Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington. Speaking for the Council of Ministers of the European Community, of which he currently is president, Carrington reportedly expressed some reservations about the Fahd plan. But he also was said to have agreed that nothing more can be expected from the Camp David process after Israel's scheduled withdrawal from the last portion of the Sinai Peninsula next April, and that the Palestinians must be brought into negotiations with Israel. Haig at week...