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Differing with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, who has staked his repu tation on the success of the Camp David peace process, Fahd branded that plan a failure and called on the U.S. to move on toward some broader form of discussion...
...some extent, Western diplomats believe, the Fahd initiative is an expression of a rivalry of sorts between Saudi Arabia and Egypt for greater U.S. backing. Indeed, Sadat airily dismissed Fahd's proposals as "nothing new," although they obviously were more than that...
...America's leading partner in the Arab Middle East. They argue that they have tried to shape their oil policy and their diplomacy to help the U.S. Only last month, at Washington's urging, they helped persuade the Palestinians to accept a cease-fire in southern Lebanon. Sadat has been isolated from most of the Arab world, note the Saudis, while they are on influential terms with almost every Arab state. The Saudis believe they are in the best position to talk the Palestine Liberation Organization, the Syrians and the fractious Lebanese into working out a plan...
...series of events that apparently influenced Sadat's decision not to go to Austria began two weeks ago when customs officials in Vienna stopped two Palestinians whose luggage was found to contain an arsenal of five automatic weapons and six hand grenades. Intelligence sources believe that the two were members of a reborn Black September, and that their probable aim was to assassinate Sadat. The Palestinian radicals have been at odds with him ever since he negotiated a peace treaty with Israel, and their goal is to keep the Israeli-Arab conflict alive in the hope that Israel will...
...Austrian government did not accuse the two men of an anti-Sadat plot. Instead, it charged them with "illegal import of war materials," staged a hasty trial in which one was found guilty and the other innocent, and prepared to expel them to Lebanon...