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...confident that we were within negotiating range. Dayan and I decided that I should present the Israeli proposal to Sadat personally...
...Sinai. He wanted to retain a "minimum'' of 1½ divisions on the east bank of the Canal. He rejected the stringent restrictions on weapons that Israel had proposed. In Israel, when I presented this plan and argued that I could not go back to Sadat with the Dayan plan but needed a fallback position, the Cabinet showed considerable ingenuity. It simply turned the Dayan plan into the fallback position, giving me an even tougher new position with which to open the bidding. Yet there was, despite the harsh terms, a sense that this was not Israel's last word...
...Moshe Dayan, 66, soldier-statesman who was an architect of Israel's military victories in 1956 and 1967 and also, while Foreign Minister from 1977 to 1979, of the Camp David accords that led to peace with Egypt. As Defense Minister in 1973, he was accused of leaving Israel vulnerable to surprise attack in the October War. Always something of a maverick, Dayan, who lost an eye fighting the Vichy French in Syria in 1941, became a passionate advocate of coexistence between Jew and Arab...
...American Israel Public Affairs Committee in May. The White House knew that he was weakening, and turned up the heat. Reagan reminded Jepsen that he had personally helped him win his seat in 1978. But the President also sent him to the funeral of Israel's Moshe Dayan, at which Prime Minister Menachem Begin applied some effective counterpressure. The strain showed on Jepsen. At a meeting of Republican Senators a week before the vote, he broke into tears when discussing the conflicting pressures...
DIED. Moshe Dayan, 66, former Israeli Foreign Minister and hero of the Six-Day War in 1967; of a heart attack; in Tel Hashomer, Israel (see WORLD...