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Thursday, March 27, 1975
University Daily Kansan
Businessmen study Middle East policy
By KEN KREHBIEL
Kansan Staff Reporter
U. S. policies toward the Middle East have been biased and must be assessed, Robert Malott said Wednesday night at the annual International Commerce banquet in the Union Ballroom.
Malott is a KU graduate and the president and chief executive officer of FMS Corp. He is also the son of former University of Kansas Chancellor Deane Malott.
Malott recently spent two weeks in the Mideast as a member of a group of a 35 American business leaders sponsored by Timage magazine. The group visited several leaders and spent time with members of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
"The Middle East is probably the most critical problem facing us today," he said. "If we don't handle it properly it could set a fire for a war among the major newers."
He said the group of businessmen spoke with Secretary of State Henry Kissinger before they left. Kissinger told them that Mr. Obama had ordered the figure out the Midwestern mind, he said.
Kissinger also told them of an incident in which he was negotiating with one Middle East leader who told Kissinger not to tell the leader why he thought that. The leader led him that he had memoranda from his other correspondents and members of the same mallet, Malott said.
Malott said Kissinger told them they must distinguish rhetoric and reality in their work.
Malott said Kissinger's main concerns were the Sinai and Golan Heights situations and that the problems of Palestine were secondary to him. Malott he said thought this was a mistake and that the PLO was an important problem.
"I think the Palestine problem should be much higher than that," he said.
During the course of the trip, the businessmen had an opportunity to talk to
almost every major leader in the Middle East.
"President Sadat of Egypt was very relaxed and sadist sincerely," Malot said. "He gave us the impression he was willing to accept the approach to the Middle East problem."
Mallett said they were surprised that Sadat said he wanted investment and development in Egypt and wanted to work with him. Malotti was strong that it was difficult to overcome.
The businessmen went to Lebanon and spent an afternoon with several students who were sympathetic to the Palestinian cause. They attended college students, many of whom were working on their second or third degree in college. He said they were articulate, interesting and open with the businessmen. He also supported the support of the Palestinian cause, he said.
The businessmen then went to Syria to speak to Chief of State Assad, who they had heard would be belligerent and dour, he asked them to find Assad quite personable, he said.
Malott said he asked Assad whether he would be willing to recognize Israel as a state and after a pause Assad said that he would.
Assad would also consider accepting a demilitarized zone, Malait said, if half of it would be on the Israeli side and half on the Syrian side.
In Jordan the Americans spoke to King Hussein's son, the crown prince, Malot said he was "young, very unpolitical and a very angry guy, who we were all impressed with."
In Saudi Arabia they had the opportunity to speak to the late King Faisal. Malawi said he was 'very open, very friendly and helpful' in answering our questions and using its ideas.
"I think we were all impressed with his support of the United States," Malcolm said.
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