Word: eban
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Born. To Muhammad Ali, 30, doggerel-spouting former heavyweight boxing champ, and Belinda Ali, 22 their fourth child, first son; in Philadelphia. Name: Muhammad Eban...
...relative newcomer to Israel's internal political wars: Foreign Minister Abba Eban, 57. Newly admitted to the inner circle of the Labor Party's zameret (elite), the mellifluous-voiced diplomat has begun to soften his heavily starched image. He recently allowed himself to be photographed with his attractive blonde wife Suzy at the Suez Canal, wearing an almost shockingly informal tieless dark shirt. A dove in the past, he has begun to adopt a more hawkish-and thus more popular -stance on some issues. To match his new style, he has recruited a small new staff of politically...
...next move in any peace negotiations between Israel and Jordan will probably occur this week, when Hussein is expected to visit Washington to detail his plan. He will soon be followed by Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban and Deputy Premier Yigal Allon, the author of an Israeli plan for the West Bank that also calls for Jordan's recovering most of the occupied territory. Washington worried that both sides would like the U.S. to act as middleman, and is wary; mediation would not only infuriate other Arabs, but could also complicate U.S. relations with Israel. The U.S. will instead...
...something. Meanwhile, U.S. Secretary of State William Rogers is pressing his effort for an interim agreement that would reopen the Suez Canal and lead toward broader peace talks. While the Suez negotiations have got nowhere, both Egyptian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Riad and Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban have told Rogers, during meetings at his suite in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, that their governments want the talks to continue...
...left to the U.N.'s most mellifluous spokesman to lift the tone of the conversation. Israel's Abba Eban suggested that he and Egyptian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Riad meet on the stalemated Suez Canal issue. Such a confrontation is not likely, but the offer gave Eban a chance to criticize and praise the U.N. in its 26th year. Eban lamented that "in the work of the U.N. there is a strong accent on public controversy and a relative neglect of private conciliation." But he also noted that "this organization, for all its imperfection, is the only organized expression...