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...professorial life has a much more leisurely pace than the diplomatic," says former Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban. "Also," he says, "there is less trivia." He should know, having taught classics and Oriental languages at Cambridge before entering Israeli politics nearly three decades ago. Last week the mellifluous-voiced ex-minister was back in class again, this time as a visiting professor at Columbia University's School of International Affairs. Eban has had time on his hands since he was shuffled out of the Israeli Cabinet in a governmental shake-up last May. But he will return to Israel...
...next morning, Kissinger was awakened by news from U.S. Ambassador to Israel Kenneth Keating that war was imminent. Kissinger called the President and on Nixon's instructions telephoned the Israeli and Egyptian Foreign Ministers, urging "restraint." With Israel's Abba Eban, he added the extra warning: "Don't pre-empt...
...Abba Eban, who only this month lost his portfolio as Israel's Foreign Minister, Nixon's trip to Arab states as well as Israel symbolizes a change in U.S. policy in the Middle East, which has suffered for years from what he calls the "seesaw" effect-"if you go up with Israel, you go down with the Arabs." Now Eban sees both ends of the seesaw rising, a "spectacular paradox" that could greatly aid stability in the region...
...other leading Labor stalwarts also rejected offers to serve under the new Premier. Abba Eban, 59, who has feuded with Rabin ever since his appointment as Ambassador to Washington in 1968, was enraged when the Premier-designate offered the Foreign Ministry to Allon. Rubbing salt in the wound, Rabin offered Eban the Minister of Information folio, a lesser Cabinet job that Eban has always considered superfluous. Former Finance Minister Pinhas Sapir, 65-the kingmaker of the Labor Party-flatly refused to stay hi his post. According to Rabin's foes, Sapir even cautioned his chosen successor, Banking Executive Yaacov...
Kissinger has a finely tuned sense of hierarchy and addresses those he deals with in subtly differing ways. When he meets Israeli leaders, for instance, Kissinger calls Golda Meir "Madame Prime Minister," while Dayan and Allon are always "Moshe" and "Yigal." Foreign Minister Abba Eban, by contrast, is simply "Eban." Explains one participant in their talks: "For Mrs. Meir he has high respect, with Dayan good rapport, with Allon comradeship. With Eban there is not much more than a colleague-to-colleague relationship, since Eban is the silent man on the team who does not have much to say." Although...