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...other leading Labor stalwarts also rejected offers to serve under the new Premier. Abba Eban, 59, who has feuded with Rabin ever since his appointment as Ambassador to Washington in 1968, was enraged when the Premier-designate offered the Foreign Ministry to Allon. Rubbing salt in the wound, Rabin offered Eban the Minister of Information folio, a lesser Cabinet job that Eban has always considered superfluous. Former Finance Minister Pinhas Sapir, 65-the kingmaker of the Labor Party-flatly refused to stay hi his post. According to Rabin's foes, Sapir even cautioned his chosen successor, Banking Executive Yaacov...
...Gertrude Lawrence, secretary of the History Department, told Allon in May 1972 that he would not be allowed to take the first semester of his sophomore tutorial in the summer despite Allon's ability to find a tutor who would teach...
...Eric R. Allon '74 said in his 11-page grievance that he believes the faculty and administrators of the History Department have violated Paragraph 4 of the Faculty's Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities, which states that "it is the responsibility of officers of administration and instruction to be alert to the needs of the University community, to give full and fair hearing to reasoned expressions of grievances; and to respond promptly and in good faith to such expressions and to widely-expressed needs for change...
...Allon claims that during his undergraduate career he was repeatedly denied "access to those who are apparently in power...
...Allon missed the first semester of History 97 because he had transferred into the Department at mid-year. At that time, he says, Lawrence told him that making up the tutorial in the summer was "against the rules and policy of the History Department...