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...December. One, headed by Premier Golda Meir with Military Intelligence Chief Aharon Yariv as day-to-day coordinator, is concerned with borders; it has pretty much formulated the lines that would provide maximum security after Israel withdraws from occupied territories (see box). A second, headed by Foreign Minister Abba Eban, is working on the mechanics of negotiations and has quietly dispatched West Bank Arab leaders for exploratory talks with Palestinian guerrillas. The other two committees are dealing with the questions of Jerusalem and refugees...
Three Religions. To further his fact-finding and get-acquainted goals, Muskie spent 90 minutes in a private discussion with Prime Minister Golda Meir, dined with Foreign Affairs Minister Abba Eban and spent more than an hour with former Premier David Ben-Gurion. With temperatures in the high 80s, Roman Catholic Muskie performed an ecumenical triple play: he took off his shoes to enter the Moslem Dome of the Rock, perched a yarmulke on his head at the Wailing Wall and talked with a Christian priest at the shrine of the Holy Sepulcher...
...What airline did you fly on?" Israeli Premier Golda Meir asked, by way of making small talk. "El Al," answered United Nations Mediator Gunnar Jarring as he met Mrs. Meir and Foreign Minister Abba Eban in Jerusalem. Mrs. Meir beamed proudly. "A safe airline," she said. "No hijacks...
Another reason for delay was a running debate within Israel's Cabinet on the question of negotiations. One faction, including Eban, Deputy Premier Yigal Allon and Finance Minister Pinhas Sapir, heir apparent to Mrs. Meir (TIME, Dec. 14), favored a quick return to the Jarring talks. Another, ted by Mrs. Meir and her principal Cabinet adviser, Israel Galili, was skeptical of this approach and held out-fruitlessly-for removal of Egyptian missiles from Suez in return for Israel's reappearance. Defense Minister Dayan wavered between the two sides...
Even if the amiable Jarring manages to keep the talks going without another breakdown, the difficulties are immense. Eban maintained last week that "the words 'not negotiable' are not in our vocabulary." Nevertheless, Israel is expected to be unyielding on retaining Jerusalem and Syria's Golan Heights. The Israelis are holding out for a package agreement in which such items as borders, withdrawal from occupied territory, demilitarized zones, exchange of prisoners of war, the rights of Palestinian refugees and possible supervision by outside peace-keeping forces will be negotiated en bloc. Egypt, adopting a "programmatic," one-step...