Word: taif
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...were upset about the plight of the P.L.O. but did not, as has been reported, threaten to use the "oil weapon" against the U.S. if Washington failed to stop an Israeli attack on West Beirut. Late last week the Saudis quietly invited Lebanese Phalangist Leader Bashir Gemayel to visit Taif, their unofficial summer capital, for talks with King Fahd and several visiting Arab diplomats. Gemayel, a Maronite, is not only leader of the powerful Christian militia known as the Lebanese Forces but a member of the recently formed National Salvation Committee...
DIED. Khalid ibn Abdul Aziz ibn Saud, 69, King of Saudi Arabia and Imam and Protector of the Wahhabis; of a heart attack; in Taif, Saudi Arabia (see SPECIAL SECTION...
...economically linked with Israel. Achieving that admittedly difficult goal would depend, of course, on getting Jordan's King Hussein to join the Egyptian-Israeli talks. Hussein so far has adamantly refused to do so. After the January summit of Islamic leaders in the Saudi Arabian city of Taif, the King once again insisted that the P.L.O. was the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people; nonetheless, he has never entirely given up his interest in the West Bank, which Jordan ruled from...
...million conference center glittered brilliantly, and fleets of limousines shuttled among 70 newly built VIP villas. But no amount of extravagance could conceal the divisions that plagued the 37 Muslim nations represented at last week's third Islamic summit in Saudi Arabia's mountain resort of Taif...
...enter into the negotiations until some measure of autonomy is in effect. Meanwhile, Israel was about to become the target of renewed political pressure in the rest of the Muslim world. Sheiks, ministers and kings of some 36 Islamic countries began gathering in the Saudi Arabian mountain resort of Taif for this week's Islamic conference, which promises to be a sumptuous as well as a polemical affair. The Saudis have poured a fortune into rebuilding the city with marble and glass at a cost of more than $1 billion. Among other obvious concerns, such as the Iraq-Iran...