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...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...
First suggested by Crown Prince Fahd last August, the proposal reiterates Arab demands for a Palestinian state but implies Arab recognition of Israel's right to exist (see box). The Gulf States' endorsement could be the first step toward transforming the Fahd proposal into a pan-Arab peace plan, provided the Saudis can win approval for it at the 23-nation Arab League summit in Fez, Morocco, on Nov. 25. If the league, which includes the Palestine Liberation Organization, endorses the Fahd plan, the step would be the most important in Arab summitry since the Rabat meeting...
P.L.O. Leader Yasser Arafat, who has called the Fahd plan "a good beginning," although he has not backed it, was lobbying discreetly to put the proposal on the Fez agenda. But he faced strong opposition from radicals within his own ranks...
...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...
...conferred with six U.S. Presidents.) Hussein's young American-born wife, Queen Nur, the former Lisa Halaby, and Nancy Reagan also posed amiably for pictures. But little of substance was accomplished. Hussein politely but firmly repeated his refusal to join in the Camp David process, called the Fahd plan "worthy of consideration," and insisted that the P.L.O. ought to be brought into any negotiations with Israel. His announcement that he had agreed to buy ground-to-air missiles from the Soviets was an especially startling setback for U.S. officials, who knew that Hussein had been talking to Moscow...