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...this year, the Israelis made it official last week that they would not negotiate with the Palestine Liberation Organization under any circumstances. A few days later, as representatives of the 21 member nations of the Arab League gathered in Cairo, Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister, Prince Saud al Faisal, insisted that his country will back every effort to set up a Palestinian state on the West Bank and in Gaza. The Arab states, he said, will push for a United Nations resolution-which almost certainly will pass-condemning Israel's "expansionist" policy of creating new Jewish settlements...
Vance was advised first by Egyptian Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmy and then by Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al Faisal that Arafat, who had been shuttling between Arab states almost as rapidly as Vance himself, was "tinkering" with changes in the longstanding P.L.O. stand against Israel. Vance flashed the news to Plains in a midnight cable, and Carter again urged Palestinians to agree to Resolution 242, in order to make possible "discussions" with the U.S. and participate in a Geneva Conference...
Pity Prince Saud al-Faisal, Foreign Minister of Saudi Arabia and a possible future king. One among several Arab potentates who have been eying the U.S. real estate market lately, he wanted to have a Manhattan pied-a-terre. Saud's choice was a twelve-room, $600,000 coop apartment on Park Avenue owned by Bruce A. Norris, president of the Detroit Red Wings. Alas, it was not to be. After months of meetings, the other tenants decided not to accept Saud as a co-owner-because of their fear of possible political violence if he moved in. Said...
...Prince Mohamed, another son of Faisal and a business-administration graduate of Menlo College in California, is the chief of Saudi Arabia's water-desalination agency. He must grapple with his country's Midas-like curse: wherever explorers drill for water, oil shoots up. The prince directs a $12 billion program to build 35 desalination plants in five years that would produce 600 million gal. of fresh water daily...
Ultralavish consumption, a hallmark of Saudi royalty until frugal Faisal put an end to such waste, has been resumed with a vengeance by the newly rich private Saudis. For a Saudi millionaire, a Learjet is a must-even if he does not need it. He must own houses abroad, in London, Paris, Switzerland and the U.S. Rich Saudis also have a weakness for stretched-out Mercedes cars with built-in bars at $75,000 each...