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Hussein will hardly have left the U.S. capital when another familiar figure is scheduled to arrive. Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan is visiting the U.S. ostensibly to raise money for the United Jewish Appeal, but that is a convenient cover for an unofficial side trip to Washington. Before Dayan's departure, Premier Golda Meir dispatched a personal letter to President Nixon seeking clarification of U.S. guarantees on arms deliveries and economic assistance-and a promise that the U.S. will not "impose" its point of view on Israel when the peace talks get under way. The U.S. last week...
Friendly Persuasion. The metamorphosis of Moshe Dayan was causing repercussions in Israel. Three months ago Premier Golda Meir flatly stated that "unless the original position is restored, Israel will not be able to participate" in the Jarring talks. Last week in her Knesset speech, Mrs. Meir indicated that Israel is pondering participation. "I was never prepared," the Premier explained, "to undertake that our struggle would lead to the fulfillment of our just demand in its entirety...
Waves Abroad. Dayan's change of heart on the talks has several explanations. Israel's security is his main concern, and when anything threatens it -such as Egypt's missile installations -he stiffens. But essentially he has been flexible on peace propositions. It was Dayan, for instance, who pressed after the 1967 war for the "open bridges" policy under which Arabs on the occupied West Bank were able to continue visiting and doing business with Jordanians...
...some extent, Dayan is also acting out of political 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...
...However Dayan's strategy works at home, it is already making waves abroad. From Washington, Foreign Minister Abba Eban complained in a cable that the Defense Minister ought to end his "striptease"-by which he apparently meant Dayan's exposure of too many of Israel's peace options. The Foreign Minister said that he had been questioned by U.S. officials who asked why, when Dayan is so eager to return to the Jarring talks without condition, Golda Meir cannot be as cooperative...