Word: eban
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Orwell's savage parody of the Revolution, or Alexander Solzhenitsyn's three Gulags. But other excisions were mystifying. From the booth of the Association of Jewish Book Publishers, for example, inspectors confiscated a book of essays entitled The Holocaust Years, as well as ex-Israeli Ambassador Abba Eban's My Country. Among the 300 volumes left untouched were Eban's companion volume My People and Lucy Dawidowicz's volume The War Against the Jews, an analysis of the Holocaust...
...achievement is greater than the price," said former Foreign Minister Abba Eban, a member of the Labor Party...
...Israel, meanwhile, the Labor Party opposition kept up its attack on Begin for his handling of foreign policy, his failure to halt inflation and even his physical and mental ability to carry on as Premier. "Clumsy," said former Foreign Minister Abba Eban of the handling of the Sadat request. Said another high-ranking political opponent after the Israeli mission was sent home: "This is the beginning of the end. We are heading toward the total collapse of the peace negotiations...
...forces and all other types of practical cooperation. [The Labor Party] has already agreed to U.N. Security Council Resolution 242 for withdrawal of Israeli forces from occupied territories. The Vienna document put forth by Austrian Chancellor Bruno Kreisky and former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt and drafted by Abba Eban is more clearly defined and carries many more commitments...
Writing in the Jerusalem Post, former Foreign Minister Abba Eban attacked Begin's position as "judicially frivolous." Davar, the semiofficial voice of the opposition Labor Party, declared: "The Israeli attempt to undermine the sanctity of 242 is a perilous maneuver. It only strengthens the impression that the government is fleeing any attempt to deal with fundamental questions and prefers formalistic sophistry and settlement gimmickry...