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Kissinger has a finely tuned sense of hierarchy and addresses those he deals with in subtly differing ways. When he meets Israeli leaders, for instance, Kissinger calls Golda Meir "Madame Prime Minister," while Dayan and Allon are always "Moshe" and "Yigal." Foreign Minister Abba Eban, by contrast, is simply "Eban." Explains one participant in their talks: "For Mrs. Meir he has high respect, with Dayan good rapport, with Allon comradeship. With Eban there is not much more than a colleague-to-colleague relationship, since Eban is the silent man on the team who does not have much to say." Although...
...government will be under pressure to negotiate not only swiftly but also well. Although Foreign Minister Abba Eban was in Washington last week to discuss disengagement in general as well as U.S. aid, Israel's negotiator will probably be Defense Minister Moshe Dayan. That would please Washington. Says one ranking U.S. official: "Most Israeli leaders will talk to you about that hill or this crossroad. Dayan is the only one who can see the whole landscape of a possible disengagement." Dayan, however, is under severe criticism at home for the lack of preparedness that led to heavy Israeli losses...
Among chief candidates to replace Meir as premier are: Dayan, Finance Minister Pinhas Sapir, Deputy Premier Yigal Allen, and foreign minister Abba Eban...
...member group, organized by Martin H. Peretz, lecturer on Social Studies, and Michael L. Walzer, professor of Government, spent ten days in Israel interviewing government officials, including Prime Minister Golda Meir, Defense Minister Moshe Dayan, and Foreign Minister Abba Eban...
...Likud equivocated on the issue of continuing negotiations in Geneva, and this saved Labor. Even so, Labor's loss was its worst since the country was created. Yet the government quickly moved to continue talks in Geneva as though it had won a sizable victory. Said Foreign Minister Abba Eban: "This government's mandate to negotiate a disengagement has not been removed by the election. There is a peace mystique here much stronger than the election figures on the surface indicate...