THE PRESSURE OF EVENTS

THE RECENT VISITS TO THE KINGDOM of Syria's Deputy Premier and Foreign Minister Abdul Halim Khaddam and PLO chief Yasser Arafat mirrors, in part, Saudi Arabia's currently uneasy position in the inter-Arab political field. Both the Arab leaders came to seek, in one measure or another, Saudi support for their widely separated and basically opposing postures and the pleas and arguments they advanced will have done nothing to reduce Saudi qualms about the present situation in the region.