Word: golda
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...GOLDA MEIR 480 pages. Putnam...
There are few odder couples than Pope Paul VI and Golda Meir. The disparity overwhelmed even Mrs. Meir two years ago as she prepared for the first official meeting between an Israeli Premier and a Roman Catholic Pontiff. "Imagine," she remarked to her aides. "I, the daughter of Moshe Mabovitch, who was just an ordinary carpenter, am actually on my way to the Holy See to meet the Pope." "Don't forget," retorted her assistant, "carpenters have a special standing there." Now that Mrs. Meir has written her memoirs, this image of the Yiddisher mama as world figure...
...civil disturbances. Cryptically, Allen told the Senators that the watchlist monitoring had prevented "a major terrorist act" in an American city. The episode apparently involved a plan by Arab terrorists to hide explosives in a car parked on a New York City street and detonate them when Israeli Premier Golda Meir, who was visiting the city, passed...
...There were times when Golda was really broke," recalls former Israeli Premier Golda Meir's personal secretary, Lou Kaddar. "So broke that she scarcely had food for the children. But now that is all changed." In fact, with her new autobiography, My Life, selling at a brushfire pace in 17 languages, Golda at 77 may soon find herself a millionairess. She has already received a $450,000 advance from her British publishers, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, and royalties and film rights could more than double that figure. However, the loot is fast becoming an embarrassment to Golda, who has long shunned...
...Baath Party called the Sinai agreement "strange and disgraceful," and Assad pointedly refused to receive Egyptian Vice President Husny Mobarak when he appeared to explain the Egyptian view. In Israel, as she made a rare political appearance to vote for ratification at a Labor Party caucus, former Premier Golda Meir said she greeted the second-stage agreement "not with a fanfare but also not with a feeling of mourning...