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...cannot forget what [former Defense Minister] Moshe Dayan said before he resigned-that dangerous, barbaric statement that there was nothing left for Palestinians except death. We have to add what [Yitzhak] Rabin said when he became Prime Minister: that there was "no room for Palestinians among us." Recent decisions of the Israeli Cabinet proved beyond any doubt that the designs and the mentality have not changed a bit. They still ignore the major problem...
...Israel Aircraft Industries Ltd., which builds and services planes for peace and war, was showing signs of strain. Its first two tries at building executive jets seemed to have flopped expensively, and its attempts to refurbish and resell old planes appeared to be sputtering. Shortly before the war, Moshe Dayan, then head of the Defense Ministry, tried to oust the company's boss, Al Schwimmer...
...from Bridgeport, Conn., Schwimmer can barely speak Hebrew after 22 years in Israel. Many military men were troubled by the key role that a civilian with a U.S. passport was playing in their country's defense. Israel's Connecticut Yankee has survived, however, and not just because Dayan has been replaced by Shimon Peres, a Schwimmer champion for years. Pressed by mounting criticism and Dayan's maneuvering, Schwimmer decided just before the October war to reveal I.A.I.'s balance sheet for the first time-and the figures clearly showed smart management. Since 1968, export sales...
...defensive and offensive postures of a state with perhaps the most insecure borders in the world. In support of that awesome mandate, he must also make periodic shopping trips to Washington to buy the American weapons that account for most of Israel's military strength. Last week Moshe Dayan's successor as Defense Minister, Shimon Peres, 51, made his first shopping trip to Washington...
...Peres seems well suited for the job. In the last Cabinet of Premier Golda Meir, he served as Transport Minister. Before that, Peres had been director general in the Defense Ministry, as a protégé of Premier David Ben-Gurion, then became Deputy Minister of Defense to Dayan...