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...TREATIES. Premier Meir is more vocal than her predecessor, Levi Eshkol, about the need for bilateral talks and a formal treaty as the only means to a lasting peace. Taking Arab intransigence into account, the U.S. is pressing Israel to accept another kind of diplomatic solution. Specifically, the U.S. proposes a declaration of a state of peace, partly inspired by one that in 1956 formalized the end of the Russo-Japanese World War II hostilities. Under such a declaration, the Middle East combatants would separately declare to the United Nations that they were at peace again...
Last week, in the first interview she has granted since Eshkol's death, Mrs. Meir added: "As long as the Arabs won't sit down with us, that means they don't accept our existence. Nasser must conclude that peace is not something he can give to Israel as a luxury or fulfillment of its need, but as something at least as necessary for his people as for the Israelis. It's not a present for him to give to us. It's something that his children, the children in the Nile valley, need...
...dimension of terror from the inside added sharply to the burdens of Premier-designate Golda Meir, who, as expected, was voted in by the Israel Labor Party to succeed the late Premier Levi Eshkol last week. Only a day after the vote, trouble flared along the Suez Canal. Hours after Israeli jets shot down an Egyptian MIG-21 over the Sinai, artillery opened up along the 60-mile canal front. For the second time since the Six-Day war, Israeli guns set fire to Egypt's main oil refineries at Suez. The Israelis lost one soldier killed...
According to a cruel gibe at the time, Eshkol became Premier "to prove that Israel could get along without one." Lacking flair and unabashedly heimish (just plain folks), he ventured no flamboyant new policies but rather consolidated and institutionalized the investment of blood, money and effort of the earlier years. Under his leadership, Israelis fulfilled the ancient Jewish promise of meeting "next year in Jerusalem." His dream of seeing a new wave of immigration from Russia proved as elusive as peace with the Arabs, but he came somewhat closer to his political ambition of forging a single majority labor party...
Died. Levi Eshkol, 73, third Premier of Israel (see THE WORLD...