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...from unanimous vote was one of many indications that the talks, under the guidance of United Nations Mediator Gunnar Jarring, will be difficult and drawn out. It is not simply that the issues are "deeprooted, passionate and complex," as Israel's Foreign Minister Abba Eban said. More significantly, the parties to the talks have been antagonists for so long that they are more prone to nurse old grievances than to nurture new opportunities...
...Israelis indicated that they have abandoned that hope and are ready to return to the talks with Egypt and Jordan as early as the end of this month. Even so, the Israelis profess pessimism about the outcome. "Israel wants total peace without total withdrawal," said Foreign Minister Abba Eban, "while Egypt wants total withdrawal without total peace...
...Eban was referring to a statement by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat demanding "a timetable for withdrawal." But diplomats in Cairo considered Sadat's statement, made during a visit to troops along the canal, to be more a matter of morale building than a real condition for the talks. More and more, Sadat's policy is emerging as an extension of Nasser's. In Cairo's daily Al Ahram last week, Editor Hassanein Heikal, a Nasser confidant, wrote that Egypt's former President had become convinced before his death that a military solution of the Middle...
From time to time recently, Mrs. Meir has let intimates know that she would like to have the succession problem settled. Following her wishes-as they usually do-leaders of the party, including Foreign Minister Abba Eban, Deputy Premier Yigal Alton, Minister Without Portfolio Israel Galili, Party Secretary-General Arie Eliav and about ten city bosses, finally met at Mayor Rabinowitz's home to settle the question. The only other real contender besides Dayan and Sapir that the group had to consider was Allon, but within party circles he does not have Sapir's clout. When Golda Meir...
However Dayan's strategy works at home, it is already making waves abroad. From Washington, Foreign Minister Abba Eban complained in a cable that the Defense Minister ought to end his "striptease"-by which he apparently meant Dayan's exposure of too many of Israel's peace options. The Foreign Minister said that he had been questioned by U.S. officials who asked why, when Dayan is so eager to return to the Jarring talks without condition, Golda Meir cannot be as cooperative...