Word: golda
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pompidou is already running as if the vote were to be held next week. At a news conference in the Elysée Palace last week, the President played to his conservative constituency. He pointedly declared that he would not meet with four national leaders-Israel's Golda Meir, Sweden's Olof Palme, Denmark's Anker Jörgensen and Austria's Bruno Kreisky-who were due in Paris to attend an annual meeting of the Socialist International this week. "They are coming here as militants," Pompidou protested, "not as chiefs of state." Two days later...
...SuperGolda"; her principal adversary was a Tel Aviv intellectual driven berserk by police corruption, religious fanaticism, militarism, pollution, inflation and social inequality. Israel's state-run television network last January introduced a show called Not Everything Is Overlooked, which mixed music and political satire. After seeing the show, Golda Meir announced in stern Victorian tones: "I am not amused." The production ended after four telecasts...
...government has not formally responded to such attacks other than by trying to muffle them. Last year in a radio interview, however, Golda Meir did offer a bromidic standard of sorts. She observed when asked about censorship: "Nothing is moral or immoral. There is only beauty and ugliness. I have learned that the same thing can be beautiful and ugly, and I am in favor of beautiful things...
...insist that this situation should not change. Nonreligious Jews question the extent to which religious law should influence everyone's daily life. This is one of those issues that bitterly divide Israelis, for all their unity against external threats. One such squabble-incredibly esoteric to outsiders-had split Golda Meir's Cabinet and even threatened to bring down her government. Last week the problem was finally solved...
...efforts of Hanoch and Miriam to marry their sweethearts in a valid religious ceremony became a celebrated case. Defense Minister Moshe Dayan became their advocate. Some Knesset members introduced bills which would allow civil marriage in Israel for the first time; the National Religious Front promised to bolt Golda Meir's coalition if such a law were passed, and even Mrs. Meir threatened to resign unless the case was resolved...