Word: dovishness
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Moreover, Israeli citizens and their leaders are growing increasingly militant as they read Arab statements that seem to them intransigent. Aharon Yariv, the dovish former Information Minister in Yitzhak Rabin's last Labor government, warned last week that if U.S. peace efforts fail, "war becomes a definite possibility." Returning from a state visit to Rumania, Premier Begin defiantly noted that his government includes three generals who led Israeli armies to victory in previous wars. Said he: "We shall be ready to defend ourselves...
Disappointing Leader. Although there were a few grumbles from Labor's dovish coalition ally, the leftist Mapam group, the virtually unanimous vote for Peres seemed to unite the splintered Labor Party. Voters accepted Rabin's abdication with mixed feelings. He had been an uncertain and disappointing leader. But he was also the first sabra (native-born Israeli) to become Premier; the abrupt downfall of one of the "sons of the founders" had tragic communal overtones...
...Slate. The man with perhaps the strongest claim on the right of succession was the suave, tough-minded Peres (see box). There was speculation that Foreign Minister Yigal Allon, 58, might contest Peres for the nomination. Allon, whose strength lies with the dovish left-wing Mapam faction of the party, eventually decided not to do so. Thus the path was cleared for a party-unifying compromise: Peres would run for Premier, his ally Abba Eban would be nominated for his old post of Foreign Minister, and Allon would be offered Defense. On Sunday, the Central Committee voted overwhelmingly for Peres...
Sorensen was hotly opposed by Senator Henry Jackson and the AFL-CIO for being too dovish. But he had the crucial backing of Cyrus Vance, Carter's choice for Secretary of State, and Zbigniew Brzezinski, the new National Security Adviser. Sorensen worked closely with both on the Carter campaign in New York...
...avoid controversy, Carter turned to Brown, a physicist who had been one of Defense Secretary Robert McNamara's prize Whiz Kids and Lyndon Johnson's Air Force Secretary during the Viet Nam War. A skilled manager with a fuzzy ideological image (hawks consider him a bit dovish and vice versa), he seemed a safe compromise...