Word: faisal
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...Presidents, Emirs and other leaders gathered round a horseshoe table in Morocco's Rabat Hilton. "This summit conference has been like a wedding feast for the Palestinians," said Yasser Arafat. After four days of sometimes bitter debate, the Arab summit?attended by such luminaries as Saudi Arabia's King Faisal, Egypt's President Anwar Sadat, Algeria's Houari Boumedienne and Syria's Hafez Assad?had radically and dramatically altered the Middle East situation. The leaders, including even Jordan's acquiescent King Hussein, for the first time had unanimously endorsed Arafat instead of Hussein as "sole legitimate" spokesman for all Palestinians...
...Iran nevertheless provides Israel with 50% of its oil. In return, Israeli experts on irrigation and land reclamation have transformed Iran's Ghazvin Plain into a fertile oasis. At the same time, the Shah responded favorably last October to a request from Saudi Arabia's King Faisal and dispatched six Iranian air force C-130 transports to ferry Saudi troops and equipment to the war against Israel. High on the agenda of Kissinger's talks with the Shah will be the unresolved confrontation between their two governments over rising oil and commodity prices...
...Moroccan authorities uncovered two plots, by a Black September group and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, to assassinate moderate leaders in Rabat. Among the intended victims: Egypt's Sadat, Jordan's King Hussein, Morocco's King Hassan and Saudi Arabia's King Faisal...
Unusual Gesture. While the oil possessors are entitled to enjoy and perhaps even flaunt their wealth, they may be well advised to contemplate more carefully the long-range consequences of their action. The Saudis have apparently done just that. Before last month's OPEC ministerial meeting, King Faisal, in a most unusual gesture, sent the Shah of Iran a personal letter urging him to join Saudi Arabia in pushing for lower oil prices. The Shah refused. The Saudi monarch, say officials close to him, wrote the letter because he is worried that the impact of high oil prices on both...
...dispute is an ideological conflict that has flared up in the past and been papered over for the sake of unity. The militant Marxist P.F.L.P. opposes not only Israel but also such "reactionary" Arab monarchs as Jordan's King Hussein and Saudi Arabia's King Faisal. Although Faisal has generously subsidized Arafat's Fatah guerrillas, the King has never given a riyal to Habash. Beyond that, the P.F.L.P. still clings to the goal of creating a secular Palestine to replace Israel in which Jews, Christians and Moslems would live together. Fatah and the less extreme fedayeen would...