Word: dayan
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...cameras next to the beaming Foreign Minister of an allied nation, Florida Senator Richard Stone last week denounced U.S. State Department policy. In the case of almost any other country, it would have been considered an affront to the U.S.-but not if the minister is Moshe Dayan and the country is Israel. The incident illustrates the special problems the U.S. faces in trying to push Israel toward a more pliable attitude that is necessary to bring about a Middle East settlement. Just how much leverage does Washington have...
...Dayan gets a message from an Arab leader...
...DAYAN SHUTTLE A MYSTERY, cried London's Daily Telegraph. Le Monde speculated on LES MYSTÉRIEUX DÉ-PLACEMENTS DE M. DAYAN. What prompted such puzzled headlines were some sudden and inexplicable changes in the flight plans of Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan. Shortly before he was scheduled to fly from Brussels to New York, Dayan dropped out of sight. He surfaced next day and took an El Al flight from Paris back to Israel, where he conferred briefly with Premier Menachem Begin. In Tel Aviv, Dayan deviated from his schedule once more: instead of taking...
...What was Dayan up to? The second change in plans was for the luxury-loving minister's comfort and convenience. The first one, however, involved an important and secret diplomatic mission. TIME has learned that the reason for Dayan's mysterious disappearance and his unscheduled return to Israel was a rendezvous with Morocco's Hassan II at the King's summer palace in Tangier. Dayan flew to Tangier after disguising himself by taking off his famous black eyepatch and donning dark glasses and a diplomat's Homburg hat. The Moroccan King has met before with...
...Dayan considered Hassan's message so important that he returned to Israel-to Premier Begin's surprise-for discussions and perhaps fresh instructions. The Foreign Minister spent 80 minutes with Begin and three top aides: Major General Yitzhak Hoki, head of Mossad (Israel's equivalent of the CIA), Brigadier General Ephraim Poran, Begin's intelligence adviser, and Eliahu Ben-Eliassar, director-general of the Premier's office. Dayan discussed the need for alternative diplomatic approaches in case of a Geneva conference impasse. He also urged Begin to tone down all talk of new settlements, including...