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...Meir's supporters want her to take the interim premiership to head off a showdown between two younger contenders, whose rivalry might otherwise divide the government and country between now and October. They are Allon, 50, the favorite of the party establishment, and Defense Minister Moshe Dayan, 53, whose immense popularity with the grass roots is not shared by the party brass. Something of a lone wolf, Dayan is not one either to seek or accept advice, and is considered unpredictable and undisciplined by the staunch conservatives of the Labor Party machine. A pragmatist who operates largely on intuition...
...reason for the diplomatic denunciations was to head off any massive Israeli retaliation, such as the commando raid on Beirut airport last December. In Israel itself, government leaders reiterated their longstanding policy of holding Arab governments responsible for terrorist attacks, and thereby subject to reprisal. As Defense Minister Moshe Dayan put it, "We shall hit them where it hurts most...
...should adopt a more "evenhanded" approach. He repeated the phrase after reporting to Nixon in New York. Scranton's implication was clear: the U.S. had been unfair to the Arab states. Nixon himself has not indicated any modification in U.S. policy, and Israel's Moshe Dayan said after conferring with Nixon that he did not anticipate any reduction of U.S. support for his country. But Scranton's remarks at least hinted that the Nixon Administration would look for new ways to mollify the Arabs...
...prospects for 2,000-plus second-rung presidential appointments are undergoing intensive screening, resembles the White House more and more every day. It is becoming almost obligatory for foreign bigwigs to call on the President-elect as well as on the President himself: Is rael's General Moshe Dayan came to see Nixon last weekend, and this week the Amir of Kuwait, in the U.S. on the last state visit of Johnson's term of office, was to pay a courtesy call on the President-elect. Gradually but inexorably, the power of the U.S. presidency was shifting from...
...complex world of the Middle East, no one can ever be sure whose set of claims is true. El Fatah has publicly taken credit for blasting the garage of former Israeli Chief of Staff Itzhak Rabin, even though he has no garage, and for wounding Defense Minister Moshe Dayan last March, who was actually hurt in an archeological cave-in. After Israel's independence day parade last May, El Fatah crowed that "a suicide force managed to reach the rear of the parade and shell it with rockets and mortars. Our forces destroyed a number of tanks that were...