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Israel's Foreign Minister Abba Eban is a judicious diplomat with a passion for linguistic precision. Thus, when Eban last week told 40 visiting U.S. rabbis that he "would not be surprised" if formal relations between Israel and the Soviet Union were to resume "in the near future," there was reason to believe that he was not prattling idly. At the same time, Western diplomats talked about a visit to Tel Aviv and Jerusalem earlier this month by a Soviet journalist who has served in the past as a kind of ambassador without portfolio for Moscow. The ostensible reason...
...eats up 40% of the $3.8 billion national budget, the nation's Foreign Ministry has earmarked $10 million for foreign aid this year, and half of that will go to Africa. The program has been highly cost-effective in winning diplomatic friends, as indicated by Foreign Minister Abba Eban's scheduled trip this week to seven Black African countries (Ghana, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Sierra Leone, the Congo, Cameroun and Kenya...
...public posturing and cynicism on both sides masked a subsurface momentum, however gradual, toward an interim agreement on opening the Suez Canal. "There is still life in this possibility," Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban told the Knesset, "even if agreement is not certain." As one high U.S. official put it: "The mirror image on both sides is a desire to move with deliberation in order to avoid the misunderstandings that have marred such efforts in the past...
Israel still hopes to change Rogers' mind. After all, Israeli officials in Jerusalem say, there is really very little to discuss. Secretary Rogers in recent months has heard Israel's position explained and expounded by every ranking Cabinet member, including eloquent, British-educated Foreign Minister Abba Eban and Premier Golda Meir, who sounds in English like the no-nonsense Milwaukee schoolteacher she used to be. 'The Secretary knows our position well," said an Israeli official last week. "It has been explained to him in Cambridge English, broken English and just plain English...
...Israel has long been unhappy over the Jarring talks, complaining that Jarring has become more a participant than an overseer. "We've ended up negotiating with Jarring and not with the Egyptians," complained an Israeli official last week. Israel would like Jarring to contract what Foreign Minister Abba Eban described as "diplomatic amnesia," whereby he would forget everything that has happened so far in the talks and start new, direct negotiations between Israel and Egypt...