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...intellectuals, including Novelist Saul Bellow and Sociologist Daniel Bell, sent an open message of support to an Israeli peace group that had urged Begin to be more flexible in negotiations. Last week in Israel 4,000 members of an organization called Peace Now lined up along the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv highway in a demonstration on behalf of that cause. The gentle protest hardly daunted the peppery Begin, who told a more militant group known as Secure Peace: "We are called upon to do things likely to endanger our existence and our future, but to these demands we will respond with...
...When President Sadat, in Ismailia, got a little annoyed with me and said, "Ezer, if this doesn't go through, I'll have you chased all over the world." I replied, "Please, Mr. President, the first time I started chasing you was 20 kilometers south of Tel Aviv in May 1948, and look where we are now. Let's not start chasing each other again...
...because mining in Angola has not recovered from a civil war that ended in 1976. More important, speculators round the world have concluded that diamonds are a good hedge against inflation, currency weakness and political uncertainty. In the diamond centers of Antwerp, New York City, Bombay and especially Tel Aviv, industry middlemen have been paying price premiums up to 100% to buy and hoard uncut stones. Banks have been buying diamonds for customers' portfolios, instead of stocks. "Some people have bought kilos' worth of diamonds," says Antwerp Diamond Cutter Sylvain Zucker. Disgusted by the speculation, New York...
...tall, handsome onetime fighter pilot is still firing away, but he seems to be surviving. Not only does Weizman, 53, now have Dayan's old job at the Israeli defense ministry in Tel Aviv, he has also long been considered a leading contender for Begin's job-which, of course, he says he does not seek. "I'm very happy in what I'm doing," he told TIME last week, "and I can enjoy it for many years...
...monolithic, of course, but generally they have become anxious, mistrustful and even angry with Carter and his Administration. Moderates charge the President with a lack of true understanding of Israel's precarious security situation-a point driven forcefully home by the P.L.O.'s terrorist raid into Tel Aviv two weeks ago. More extreme critics claim he is purposely pursuing a peace-at-any-price policy that will lead to Israel's certain destruction...