Word: eban
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...guts." Warm tributes from world leaders flowed into Independence, Mo. France's President Georges Pompidou and Great Britain's Queen Elizabeth II both cited Truman's aid in rebuilding Europe after the war. Noting Truman's early recognition and support of Israel, Foreign Minister Abba Eban said the U.S. President had "helped a tormented humanity to stand on its feet and to raise its head high once again...
Angered by the alacrity with which the West Germans had agreed to turn over the three Arabs, Israel temporarily recalled its ambassador to Bonn. Complained Foreign Minister Abba Eban: "Who knows what people have been condemned to death or injury by their release?" In response, Israeli Phantoms made strikes on four Palestinian camps near Damascus. The Syrian government later said at least 65 people had been killed, few of them fedayeen...
...asking. His refusal to accept the premiership might well lead to an open battle between Dayan and Allon that would threaten Israel's governing coalition, or to the choice of a candidate not to Mrs. Meir's liking-such as Foreign Minister Abba Eban. Either circumstance might convince her that she should stay in office for a while longer...
...hear U.S. Secretary of State William Rogers call for an international treaty against terrorism. Fearing attacks even inside the U.N., bodyguards sat close to some foreign ministers scattered among the 131 delegations; gallery visitors were closely screened and carefully watched. Vulnerable figures like Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban moved amid the tightest security since Nikita Khrushchev visited the U.N. in 1960. In spite of that clear and present evidence of the insidious, pervasive nature of terrorism, Assembly delegates gave only a palsied response to Rogers' proposals for doing something about...
...Palestinians in their battle with Israeli "criminals." British Foreign Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home saluted the U.S. effort, but Britain, along with France, Japan, Australia and other nations dependent upon Middle East oil, offered no support for any treaty that would include sanctions. As for the Middle East combatants, Eban claimed that terrorism was simply "a recognized arm of Arab governments in a policy of war against Israel." Arabs consider that the only way to rid the world of terrorism is to redress the grievances of the Palestinians...