Word: golda
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...regard to your incredibly unenlightened and sexist remark that Golda Meir "could be as unbending as any man": I deeply resent your identification of inflexibility as a male trait. What you want to say, I'm sure, is that when she felt it necessary to be so, Mrs. Meir could be as hard-nosed as any international politician, most of whom happen to be male...
Really. Comparing Golda Meir with a man is like comparing a shark with a tuna...
...Vance-Sadat meetings. held in the Egyptian leader's Nile resthouse at the Delta Barrage, 15 miles north of Cairo, cheered the Americans. Vance emerged from the second session reporting "good progress." He interrupted the Cairo talks for a flight to Jerusalem for the funeral of former Israeli Premier Golda Meir. Sensitive to the impropriety of conducting diplomacy at such a moment, Vance huddled only briefly over coffee in a private room at the airport with Israeli Foreign Minister Dayan and Defense Minister Ezer Weizman...
...Golda took over as Israel's fourth Premier, more the autocrat than the mother comforter. But even in this dominating role, she injected a maternal element into the cold science of international relations. She assembled her senior cabinet members at supper in her kitchen to discuss affairs of state amid aromatic fumes of the chicken soup she loved to cook. She met Prime Ministers and Presidents at the grandest of diplomatic dinners wearing her severely cut suits and orthopedic shoes. She tolerated bodyguards with reluctance but would often brew tea for them in the morning's small hours...
...DIED. Golda Meir, 80, Premier of Israel from 1969 to 1974; from complications of lymphoma; in Jerusalem (see WORLD...