Word: eban
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Abba Eban, Israel's Foreign Minister, addressed a crowd of more than 2200 at Harvard yesterday and vowed that his country would not abandon the current Mideast cease-fire lines until a permanent peace with the Arab nations has been achieved...
...Foreign Minister Mahmoud Riad opened the debate by declaring that three years of quiet diplomacy had failed, "due to Israel's insistence on expansion on the one hand, and the support it receives from the U.S. on the other." Foreign Minister Abba Eban again called on Cairo to "rectify" the uneasy situation along the Suez Canal by pulling back all or most of the missiles that the Egyptians, in violation of agreements, have moved into the area since the cease-fire began in August...
...Nasser's death, followed with an apt quote from Proverbs 24:17: "Do not rejoice when your enemy falls and let not your heart be glad when he stumbles." The Cabinet, hastily summoned, ordered Israeli front-line troops on alert until events were sorted out. Foreign Minister Abba Eban pointedly offered Nasser's potential successor a nonbelligerent atmosphere in which to operate. With the 90-day cease-fire between his country and Egypt due to expire early next month, Eban said at the United Nations: "We do not recognize a deadline. Israel will not open fire just because a certain...
...Gaulle appears to be acid-tongued, vengeful and often petty. Yet he also emerges as a man with an obviously brilliant political mind. Almost three weeks before the Six-Day War in 1967, he informed a Cabinet meeting that he was about to meet with Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban, who was then in Paris. The general, with almost incredible prescience, told his ministers that he planned to tell Eban...
...Europe. Finally, the Palestinian problem, which is still only one of refugees, will become a great national cause. We wish Israel nothing but well. All our warnings must be considered as signs of our interest and friendship. Don't jump to the wrong conclusions." After the meeting with Eban. De Gaulle prophetically told Pompidou that the imminent war "will last less than ten days...