The World - News from Feb. 15, 1985
President Reagan and Saudi Arabia’s King Fahd issued a joint communique saying a stable Mideast peace “must provide security for all states in the area and for the exercise of the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people.” They differed, however, on how to achieve peace. In their two days of talks, Fahd supported the 1982 Arab League plan calling for a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital. Reagan stood by his own 1982 proposal calling for self-rule for the Palestinians--in association with Jordan--on land captured by Israel in 1967.
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