Word: countrymen
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Israel's Defense Minister, Ezer Weizman, is as well known to his countrymen for his wry wit as for his distinguished war record. Last week, before flying to Cairo for discussions with Egypt's President Sadat and War Minister Mohammed Abdel Ghany Gamassy, Weizman informally addressed a TIME news tour of businessmen and editors about his country's problems. Excerpts...
Reports TIME Moscow Bureau Chief Marsh Clark: "The elite here have more of the good things of life vis-a-vis their average countrymen than do the West's richest businessmen in relation to a man on welfare. In the Soviet Union, various grades of apparatchiks have access to special stores that sell imported and otherwise scarce goods at very low prices. Behind a door marked 'Office of Passes' on Granovsky Street not far from the Kremlin, a windowless emporium offers a cornucopia of meats, fruits, vegetables and imported delicacies to the shishki (big shots). The average Ivan and Natasha...
...Kimpo Airport, Park seemed as smooth and unruffled as he had been during the eleven years he spent as a millionaire Washington partygiver and rice broker who liked to hand out money and other favors to American politicians. Staring into the TV lights, he apologized for having inconvenienced his countrymen, promised not to "betray" their expectations and added, "I shall return in good health...
...Jerusalem"? Though U.S. Special Envoy Alfred ("Roy") Atherton resumed his shuttle diplomacy between Jerusalem and Cairo last week, the peace process is essentially stalled. Both sides have made mistakes, but most dispassionate observers place the larger share of the blame on Israel and its doctrinaire Premier. Few of his countrymen would fault Begin for his aims or his principles, but a growing number disapprove of his tactics as a peacemaker, as TIME Jerusalem Bureau Chief Donald Neff reported last week...
There is no groundswell of Israeli disagreement over Begin's policies, no sense of growing national doubt. According to the most recent polls, Begin enjoys the support of 68% of his countrymen. Yet he is widely criticized today for his handling of the peace talks, not for allowing the negotiations to founder, much less for his unbending stand on many issues, but for offering too much too soon. Many Israelis believe that his opening offer of Egyptian sovereignty over all of the Sinai was a mistake, even though Begin later indicated that he wanted a special U.N. status for Sharm...