Word: eban
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...from unanimous vote was one of many indications that the talks, under the guidance of United Nations Mediator Gunnar Jarring, will be difficult and drawn out. It is not simply that the issues are "deeprooted, passionate and complex," as Israel's Foreign Minister Abba Eban said. More significantly, the parties to the talks have been antagonists for so long that they are more prone to nurse old grievances than to nurture new opportunities...
Another reason for delay was a running debate within Israel's Cabinet on the question of negotiations. One faction, including Eban, Deputy Premier Yigal Allon and Finance Minister Pinhas Sapir, heir apparent to Mrs. Meir (TIME, Dec. 14), favored a quick return to the Jarring talks. Another, ted by Mrs. Meir and her principal Cabinet adviser, Israel Galili, was skeptical of this approach and held out-fruitlessly-for removal of Egyptian missiles from Suez in return for Israel's reappearance. Defense Minister Dayan wavered between the two sides...
Even if the amiable Jarring manages to keep the talks going without another breakdown, the difficulties are immense. Eban maintained last week that "the words 'not negotiable' are not in our vocabulary." Nevertheless, Israel is expected to be unyielding on retaining Jerusalem and Syria's Golan Heights. The Israelis are holding out for a package agreement in which such items as borders, withdrawal from occupied territory, demilitarized zones, exchange of prisoners of war, the rights of Palestinian refugees and possible supervision by outside peace-keeping forces will be negotiated en bloc. Egypt, adopting a "programmatic," one-step...
...Eban was referring to a statement by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat demanding "a timetable for withdrawal." But diplomats in Cairo considered Sadat's statement, made during a visit to troops along the canal, to be more a matter of morale building than a real condition for the talks. More and more, Sadat's policy is emerging as an extension of Nasser's. In Cairo's daily Al Ahram last week, Editor Hassanein Heikal, a Nasser confidant, wrote that Egypt's former President had become convinced before his death that a military solution of the Middle...
From time to time recently, Mrs. Meir has let intimates know that she would like to have the succession problem settled. Following her wishes-as they usually do-leaders of the party, including Foreign Minister Abba Eban, Deputy Premier Yigal Alton, Minister Without Portfolio Israel Galili, Party Secretary-General Arie Eliav and about ten city bosses, finally met at Mayor Rabinowitz's home to settle the question. The only other real contender besides Dayan and Sapir that the group had to consider was Allon, but within party circles he does not have Sapir's clout. When Golda Meir...