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...most rules of diplomatic logic, the assassination of Saudi Arabia's King Faisal and the collapse of U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's latest efforts at shuttle diplomacy (TIME, April 7) should have led to a period of drift in the Middle East and perhaps of rising tensions. Instead, thanks to an unexpected move by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, the next three months might still see some progress toward a second-stage disengagement agreement between Israel and Egypt...
...death last week Faisal was mourned by an imposing delegation of Arab leaders, ranging from ardent socialists like Algeria's Houari Boumedienne to semifeudal sheiks from neighboring gulf coast states. The King would probably have been more moved, however, by the national outpouring of grief from Saudis of every level, with whom he had never lost touch...
...critique of Kissinger seemed downright restrained in the face of such a clear bonanza for the Russians. At week's end, however, the Soviet press agency Tass cited charges published in some Arab newspapers that the CIA was involved in the assassination of Saudi Arabian King Faisal. Since quoting from the foreign press is a common Soviet way of expressing official views, the repetition of this patently absurd accusation was a measure of how far the Kremlin is prepared to go to exploit Middle Eastern paranoia for its own advantage...
...decide on how much military hardware to send to Egypt, whose President continues to proclaim his friendship for the U.S. The rapprochement of Iran and Iraq might lead to a lessening of the Soviet Union's influence within the Baathist government in Baghdad. The assassination of King Faisal removes a staunch anti-Communist from the scene, but 'may increase the stature of another strong anti-Communist mon arch in the area, the Shah of Iran. In general, there is little sympathy in most of the Moslem world for the U.S.S.R...
...Died. Faisal ibn Abdul Aziz al Saud, 69, austere absolute monarch of Saudi Arabia; of gunshot wounds inflicted by his nephew, Prince Faisal ibn Musaed; during a royal audience in the Saudi capital of Riyadh (see THE U.S. & THE WORLD...