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...reports that L.B.J. had snubbed Indiana Senator Vance Hartke, Bill Moyers replied: "The President does not cease dealing with a Senator because he is obstreperous." Asked if Abba Schwartz, a veteran State Department official, had been forced to resign, Moyers blamed "obstreperous members of Congress" for rumormongering...
...Histadrut elections, in fact, may have been responsible for Mapai's eventual triumph. Shocked by their results, Eshkol fired his campaign managers, revved up his multimillion-dollar campaign. Chief strategist and fund raiser: silver-tongued Finance Minister Pinhas Sapir. Publicity director: equally eloquent Deputy Premier Abba Eban, former Ambassador to the United Nations. Eshkol himself campaigned as the candidate of unity and stability, asked only for "four years of quiet to work," and pleasantly referred to Ben-Gurion's shrill taunts as "our little rupture in Mapai." On election day, the Mapai mobilized 60,000 "volunteers...
...ABBA E. BOROWICH Syracuse...
...Israelis tried hard not to gloat. Bourguiba's plan was no more acceptable to them than it was to the diehard Arabs, for Israel rejects any meaningful territorial concessions and is unwilling to take back masses of Arab refugees who might become a fifth column. Deputy Premier Abba Eban scornfully referred to the U.N. partition plan as a "broken egg" that could not be put back together again...
...Before you decide on relations with Germany, remember that the millions of Germans who were the Nazis' Hitler Jugend, members of the Gestapo and the SS, will be represented by a German ambassador in Israel with a German flag and with Deutschland über Alles." When Deputy Premier Abba Eban suggested that the hymn could be played in Israel without offense since it was written by a German liberal,* he was hooted down...