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...news of Nasser's death, followed with an apt quote from Proverbs 24:17: "Do not rejoice when your enemy falls and let not your heart be glad when he stumbles." The Cabinet, hastily summoned, ordered Israeli front-line troops on alert until events were sorted out. Foreign Minister Abba Eban pointedly offered Nasser's potential successor a nonbelligerent atmosphere in which to operate. With the 90-day cease-fire between his country and Egypt due to expire early next month, Eban said at the United Nations: "We do not recognize a deadline. Israel will not open fire just because...
...Britain, West Germany, Switzerland and Israel?also added to the confusion. The West Germans once again contemplated trading unilaterally for the release of two citizens by freeing three Arabs imprisoned by Bonn. British Foreign Minister Alec Douglas-Home, anxious to speed up deliberations, interrupted Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban's private visit to England to press for a promise to release more Arab prisoners. The Israelis agreed, among other things, to give up the two Algerian intelligence agents they had been holding. For its part, the U.S., which had dispatched Sixth Fleet ships with 1,500 battle-ready Marines...
...Gaulle appears to be acid-tongued, vengeful and often petty. Yet he also emerges as a man with an obviously brilliant political mind. Almost three weeks before the Six-Day War in 1967, he informed a Cabinet meeting that he was about to meet with Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban, who was then in Paris. The general, with almost incredible prescience, told his ministers that he planned to tell Eban...
While world attention focused on the drama of a quadruple skyjack last week, the greater crisis of peace or war hung unresolved over the Middle East. Israel's two top international spokesmen plan to visit the U.S. this week. Foreign Minister Abba Eban will fly to Manhattan, where he will confer with United Nations Mediator Gunnar Jarring. Eban hopes to get the stalled Middle East negotiations started again, preferably on Israel's terms. The Israelis demand the removal of the Soviet-supplied missiles that have been placed in the Egyptian standstill zone since the cease-fire went into...
Whether the cease-fire will survive for its full 90 days-and what happens after that-will become clearer next week. Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban plans to be in New York for the opening of the U.N. General Assembly. He will use the visit to see Jarring and state Israel's position. Mrs. Meir, who was scheduled to visit President Nixon in October, has also moved up her visit and will come to the U.S. in mid-September. If the U.S. is unable to force the Egyptians and Soviets to remove the missiles from the cease-fire zone...