Word: eban
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...companies submit to Arab pressure, Israel often reacts sharply. France's Renault canceled a contract with Israel for a more lucrative car-assembly arrangement with Egypt; after the Egyptian deal collapsed, Renault tried to get back into Israel and was rebuffed. Often Israel uses what Foreign Minister Abba Eban describes as "the economic power of 10 million Jews in the free world." The Israelis, for instance, leaked word last January that a London-based subsidiary of Mobil Oil had ordered ship chandlers not to supply its tankers with Israeli goods because Libya threatened to blacklist ships found with such...
Israel's Foreign Minister Abba Eban is a judicious diplomat with a passion for linguistic precision. Thus, when Eban last week told 40 visiting U.S. rabbis that he "would not be surprised" if formal relations between Israel and the Soviet Union were to resume "in the near future," there was reason to believe that he was not prattling idly. At the same time, Western diplomats talked about a visit to Tel Aviv and Jerusalem earlier this month by a Soviet journalist who has served in the past as a kind of ambassador without portfolio for Moscow. The ostensible reason...
Sending Signals. Israel is more than amenable to bringing a Soviet ambassador back to Tel Aviv.*The government, Eban said last week, is "ready for any proposal and willing to have these relations take any form the Russians suggest." Israel has been sending out other signals to indicate its receptiveness. The conviction of Soviet Jews in Leningrad and Riga on skyjacking charges brought vigorous protests from Israel; the trial of nine other Jews at Kishinev last week on similar charges was met with official silence. "We've been castrated and we do not know why," said one Israeli official...
...eats up 40% of the $3.8 billion national budget, the nation's Foreign Ministry has earmarked $10 million for foreign aid this year, and half of that will go to Africa. The program has been highly cost-effective in winning diplomatic friends, as indicated by Foreign Minister Abba Eban's scheduled trip this week to seven Black African countries (Ghana, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Sierra Leone, the Congo, Cameroun and Kenya...
...public posturing and cynicism on both sides masked a subsurface momentum, however gradual, toward an interim agreement on opening the Suez Canal. "There is still life in this possibility," Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban told the Knesset, "even if agreement is not certain." As one high U.S. official put it: "The mirror image on both sides is a desire to move with deliberation in order to avoid the misunderstandings that have marred such efforts in the past...