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Three Religions. To further his fact-finding and get-acquainted goals, Muskie spent 90 minutes in a private discussion with Prime Minister Golda Meir, dined with Foreign Affairs Minister Abba Eban and spent more than an hour with former Premier David Ben-Gurion. With temperatures in the high 80s, Roman Catholic Muskie performed an ecumenical triple play: he took off his shoes to enter the Moslem Dome of the Rock, perched a yarmulke on his head at the Wailing Wall and talked with a Christian priest at the shrine of the Holy Sepulcher...
...northern Galilee valley below. Now the heights are largely deserted. Kuneitra, which once had a population of 20,000. has only 300 today, most of them members of an Israeli kibbutz that operates a coffee shop selling apple strudel, beverages, and busts of Golda Meir. Moshe Dayan and David Ben-Gurion. Smaller Syrian villages are being bulldozed. "They had become a health hazard," explains an Israeli officer. "They provided refuge for stray dogs, cats and fedayeen." Some Golan fields still carry red-triangle signs denoting Syrian minefields. Others are lush with wheat and cotton grown by Israeli kibbutzniks who ride...
...station in 1915, devised the first pump with a meter that read in dollars and cents, and introduced the first antiknock fuel (it powered Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis to Europe in 1927). As a Jewish activist, Blaustein played a major role in persuading David Ben-Gurion to accept the U.N. plan to partition Palestine in 1948, and in negotiations with West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer for more than $10 billion in reparations to war-crimes victims...
...independent nations, including Senegal's Léopold Sedar Senghor and the Ivory Coast's Félix Houphouët-Boigny, who revered De Gaulle as the father of their freedom. Several faces from the past turned up, notably Israel's Elder Statesman David Ben-Gurion, former British Prime Ministers the Earl of Avon (Anthony Eden), Harold Macmillan and Harold Wilson, and former West German Chancellors Ludwig Erhard and Kurt-Georg Kiesinger. Seated among the 6,000 mourners in Notre Dame was Senator Edward Kennedy, who remembered De Gaulle's immediate decision to attend...
...DAVID BEN-GURION: "The existence of Israel seems justified to me, [but] I feel Israel must show great caution toward the Arabs." Advising Ben-Gurion against expanding Israel's territory at Arab expense, he says: "Do not exaggerate! Subdue your pride, which, as Aeschylus says, 'is the son of happiness and devours his father...