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...Egyptian requirement that 30 tanks and six batteries of howitzers remain on the east bank of the Canal. At noon we were finished. "It is a good agreement," I said. "It is not a bad agreement," said Deputy Prime Minister Yigal Allon. " 'Not bad' is Hebrew for 'good,' " explained Eban, ever the diplomat...
...list, the 120-candidate roster from which the voters will select the new Knesset members. Because the percentage of the popular vote determines how many on the list will be elected, places at the top are the prizes. The jockeying for position can be fierce. One party heavyweight, Abba Eban, a former Foreign Minister, was previously No. 2 after Peres; now he is No. 3. To soothe his feelings, former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, Peres' bitter rival, was moved from 20th position to fourth...
...negotiate. Peres' plan calls for Israel to return to Jordan about 80% of the population and 70% of the land of the West Bank, retaining 30% of the territory, including some Labor-founded settlements. Jordan has so far publicly refused to discuss the plan. Former Foreign Minister Eban, speaking for many, points out the pragmatic virtue of avoiding "the need to exercise coercive rule over a million and a quarter people against their wishes and the will of the world." Adds Peres: "What makes Israel a Jewish state are the number of Jews who live...
...Jerusalem, Haig met with Prime Minister Menachem Begin for 4½ hours and breakfasted with Shimon Peres and Abba Eban, leaders of the opposition Labor coalition. Haig found the Israelis warmly receptive to his strategic views. Said Begin of Haig's anti-Soviet clarion call: "It is not an artificial alarm. The free world is shrinking and is in permanent danger." Haig also pleased his Israeli hosts by denouncing the Syrian assault on Christian Phalangists in Lebanon last week as brutal-an apparent reversal of longstanding U.S. policy to remain neutral in the festering Lebanese conflict...
...Israelis publicly disagreed was the planned sale of five American AW ACS, radar early-warning aircraft, to Saudi Arabia. The Israelis fear that the AWACS, which are capable of tracking aircraft up to 250 miles away, would be used to spy on their own air force. Said Eban: "The WACs would lay Israel naked to Arab eyes in the sky." Haig argued that arming Saudi Arabia was necessary to ensure overall security in the Persian Gulf and that Riyadh would be required to agree not to use the planes against Israel. Nevertheless, supporters of Israel will probbly try to block...