Word: barak
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WEDNESDAY. Carter takes a new tack. Ignoring protocol, he deals not with leaders but with their aides to work out technical details. Key aides: Egyptian Under Secretary of State Osama el-Baz and former Israeli Attorney General Aharon Barak. Carter keeps aides in session 10½ hours, sending out for tea and sandwiches. Begin walks in woods with Wife Aliza. Sadat too goes strolling again...
Carter surprised in talks with aides. He finds elBaz, aide to moderate Sadat, unexpectedly technical and difficult. Barak, aide to rigid Begin, seems reasonable and flexible. "Barak was the unsung hero of the entire summit," one U.S. official says. "There would have been no agreement without him. He refused to accept the idea that a particular problem just wasn't solvable...
...quit as Labor candidate for Israel's top job, Rabin could not resign office immediately; as head of a caretaker government, he was bound by law to stay on until a new government is formed after the May 17 elections. Sensitive to the situation, Attorney General Aharon Barak suggested a loophole in the law that would allow a caretaker to step down if the Premier were "absent from the country or temporarily unable to fulfill his duty." Rabin at first refused to take advantage of this option, which fueled rumors that he might be planning a political comeback...
...Finance Ministry officials went over the bank records, they discovered a second account, containing nearly $6,000. In all, the Rabins had $18,700 in the two accounts when they left Washington, and they had transferred only some $10,500 back home. Israel's Attorney General Aharon Barak decided that the matter was serious enough to justify calling in the state prosecutor to investigate further. He also decided that Mrs. Rabin bears responsibility for the accounts; if found guilty in court, she could face up to three years in jail or a heavy fine. Confronted with the evidence...
...control of the sound truck "Down Commonwealth Avenue...Don't stop at the intersection..." The police relax their lines. The march swings left, chanting "The people United. Will never be defeated..." The brown jackets fall to the rear. They are the African Unity League and their leader, Imamu Barak is the only one among them who will acknowledge any questions, All Baraks will reply is, "Just write the story...