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...dispatched an urgent letter to Saudi Arabia's King Fahd, noting that "we may be but a few days away" from an all-out Israeli attack on West Beirut. The Administration's chief concern was to secure Israeli forbearance until Reagan can meet with Foreign Ministers Prince Saud al Faisal of Saudi Arabia and Abdel Halim Khaddam of Syria in Washington this week. "The No. 1 problem is still where the P.L.O. will go," says an Administration analyst. "I suppose the issue will come down to just how much money the Saudis are going to pay whoever takes...
...hotel called Hollywood police-most of the department once worked part-time for the sheik-who arrested him on a felony fraud charge. Sheik Fassi cooled his royal heels in jail for six hours, waiting for a bail bondsman to put up $1,000. "What is $1,000?" sneered Saud Al Rasheed, a family spokesman, who says the hotel bill will be paid promptly. "One thousand dollars we spend on tips for waiters...
Bechtel's connection with the Saudis goes back more than 30 years. Stephen Bechtel Sr., son of the founder and father of the current chairman, Stephen Jr., became friends with the late Saudi monarch, King Ibn Saud, during the 1940s when the company worked on an oil refinery in Bahrain. From that early association, a long-lasting-and profitable-Saudi friendship flowered. In 1948 a team of Bechtel engineers mobilized an army of 5,000 local laborers to build the greater part of the 1,068-mile-long Trans-Arabian pipeline. Bechtel's swift execution of the mammoth...
...origins of the Jubail project go back to a 1973 meeting at the Bechtel-built Geneva Intercontinental Hotel, between Stephen Sr., then already in his 70s, and Saudi King Faisal, the son of Ibn Saud. Bechtel listened as the King complained that $1 billion worth of natural gas had to be burned every year in Saudi Arabia's oilfields because there was no way the gas could be cheaply transported to locations where it could be used as fuel...
...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 two sets of signals were being flashed by Washington. Despite assurances from other State Department officials that no second line of communication existed, Haig angrily complained...