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...broadcasts of news bulletins and classical music were interrupted by such incongruous phrases as "meat pie," "sea wolf" and "wool string"-military codes calling reservists to duty. By late afternoon, virtually every Israeli-and much of the rest of the world as well-knew that what Defense Minister Moshe Dayan defiantly called "all-out war" had begun again...
Defense Minister Dayan, who addressed the nation some hours later, was even more optimistic. "The Arabs will take no advantage from this war before the cease-fire goes into effect," he said. "The people of Tel Aviv will be able to sleep well tonight." He said that bridges would remain open to Jordan and traffic between the west and east banks of the Jordan would be permitted as usual. Any Arabs who wished to go to work in Israel, he declared, would be allowed...
...listeners, "That's no Arab, that's my Jewish agent." For his own part, Kaye says he is worried that his Zionist grandmother will be offended and he is concerned that he has been typecast. So he won't be able to pose as Moshe Dayan some day. On the other hand, he did not have to split the $200 modeling fee with an agent...
...Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan's famous victories have been won on the desert sands. Last week he scored a notable triumph in a meeting of the Secretariat, the governing body of Israel's ruling Labor Party. By a vote of 78-0, the members approved a Dayan-originated plan-long and bitterly opposed by such doves as Foreign Minister Abba Eban and Finance Minister Pinhas Sapir-for Israeli economic penetration into the occupied Arab territories. The Secretariat vote enormously enhanced Dayan's position within the Labor Party and quite possibly established him as the man most...
...defiance toward the U.N. or the Arab world, but by Labor Party fears about the outcome of next month's general election. Although Labor has ruled throughout Israel's 25-year history, it has never commanded an absolute majority in the 120-member Knesset (Parliament). The charismatic Dayan, who is somewhat more popular with the electorate at large than he is with other leaders of the Labor Party, had threatened, in effect, to sulk in his tent through the election if the plan was not adopted. If Dayan were to defect from Labor or even withdraw from...