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...more substantive negotiations are under way-and peace in the Middle East may be a few inches closer than it has sometimes seemed. The negotiations grew out of the face-to-face meeting four months ago between Jordan's King Hussein and Israel's Deputy Premier Yigal Allon in a parked automobile on the border between the two nations (TIME, Nov. 23). Since then, subordinates have held as many as half a dozen meetings, out of which have come the outlines of a possible settlement. Jordan will not move publicly before Egypt, of course, but TIME has learned...
WEST BANK: Israel would be ready to pull back to pre-1967 lines, following the Allon Plan, which calls for a demilitarized West Bank and a broad string of protective paramilitary Israeli settlements along the Jordan River...
Another reason for delay was a running debate within Israel's Cabinet on the question of negotiations. One faction, including Eban, Deputy Premier Yigal Allon and Finance Minister Pinhas Sapir, heir apparent to Mrs. Meir (TIME, Dec. 14), favored a quick return to the Jarring talks. Another, ted by Mrs. Meir and her principal Cabinet adviser, Israel Galili, was skeptical of this approach and held out-fruitlessly-for removal of Egyptian missiles from Suez in return for Israel's reappearance. Defense Minister Dayan wavered between the two sides...
...Abba Eban, Deputy Premier Yigal Alton, Minister Without Portfolio Israel Galili, Party Secretary-General Arie Eliav and about ten city bosses, finally met at Mayor Rabinowitz's home to settle the question. The only other real contender besides Dayan and Sapir that the group had to consider was Allon, but within party circles he does not have Sapir's clout. When Golda Meir received the news that the decision had gone to Sapir, she was described as gratified...
...necessity. Next month Israel's ruling Labor Party will hold party elections and pick delegates to a convention that must be held before Israel has another national election. Since control of this machinery is essential to any prospective successor to Mrs. Meir, both Dayan and Deputy Premier Yigal Allon are working to secure it. So far, Allon appears to have the party establishment behind him. Dayan therefore is appealing to the party moderates whose strength, he feels, is gradually increasing...