Word: eban
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...your story "The New Perils of Peace" [Aug. 21], Foreign Minister Abba Eban's views on territorial changes in an Arab-Israeli peace settlement are inaccurately described...
Apart from Jerusalem and the Golan Heights, Mr. Eban is on record on countless occasions as supporting the general principle though not necessarily any detailed map ot the Allon plan, under which there would be changes in the previous Israel-Jordan armistice lines without, however, including the Arab populated areas of the West Bank. Similarly Mr. Eban opposes a return to the previous Egypt-Israel armistice lines, and advocates such changes as would ensure Israel's security and control of its navigation in the Straits of Tiran...
Chayes recently went on a two week fact-finding mission for McGovern in Western Europe and Israel, where he said he got "royal treatment." He said the Israelis he talked to--including Prime Minister Golda Meir, Foreign Minister Abba Eban, and Defense Minister Moshe Dayan--had none of the apprehensions about McGovern's position on Israel that newspapers report are sending many American Jews to the Nixon camp...
...newspaper, Ma'ariv, for making the admission at a time when the United Nations Security Council was debating a resolution condemning Israel for the raid. The one-sided resolution carried 13-0, with only the U.S. and Panama abstaining; it was promptly condemned by Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban as "inequitable and discriminatory," because it made no mention of Arab violence...
Broken Promises. He had a point. But Eban for his part did not mention the violence of the Israeli response. TIME Correspondent Gavin Scott was one of the few journalists to visit Hasbaya last week and found that the bombing had "left the center of the village a jumble of caved-in roofs, dangerous dangling electric wires, burned-out shops, blackened automobiles and screaming people. Four bombs made craters 12 ft. deep and 20 ft. across within 20 yds. of the house of Dr. Rashid Haddad, the town's only physician. There, the doctor said, pointing a finger...