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...Political Probation. The Premier has been subjected to unfair personal attacks. Israeli commentators have repeated his opponents' charges that Rabin drinks too much and makes backbiting remarks about even close colleagues. Wrote Ha'aretz Columnist Yoel Marcus recently: "Instead of inspiring, he is weak. Instead of uniting ranks, he divides." Gloomed the Jerusalem daily Yediot Aharonot: "A government crisis is looming because the Prime Minister's status has deteriorated...
There was another mild embarrassment for both Kissinger and Rabin last week when the Chicago Sun-Times printed excerpts from a forthcoming book by Israeli Journalist Matti Golan-a nonpracticing lawyer who has served seven years as diplomatic correspondent for the Hebrew-language daily Ha'aretz. The book, tentatively titled From Confrontation to Disengagement, purportedly draws on Kissinger's private conversations with newsmen and on secret minutes of his meeting with Israeli leaders. Although it was banned by censors, a revised edition was later approved. According to Golan, Kissinger criticized Israeli Foreign Minister Yigal Allon as lacking strength...
...losses in the raids, which initially served to defuse the tense and angry mood in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. Later, though, there were some second thoughts. "The use of massive airpower increases the danger of hitting civilians and merely fuels the present anti-Israel campaign in the world," warned Ha 'aretz, the country's leading paper. "The price we may have to pay may be far above what we have achieved in greater security." Even one foreign ministry official conceded that the raids had been "clumsy and ill-timed...
...they continued to live out their lives in Ha Tikva Quarter, a place where all the functions of human existence combined ungraciously and the people were struck like bells in no chorus, camel bells upset and sad but active in contrast to the still green palms, a tree with a lisp in the wind and infinite patience, variegated sun shadows, shelterer of doves, the green rafters of Tel Aviv...
After Arias' proclamation, Spain officially entered a 30-day period of national mourning. In Madrid, the morning newspapers were on the streets with headlines long since set: FRANCO HA MUERTO. Radio stations dropped regular programming to play hour after hour of solemn requiem music. Later that day, Franco's body, dressed in a captain-general's uniform with a red sash, was borne from La Paz Hospital to El Pardo, his official residence outside Madrid, for a private funeral Mass. Spain's new ruler, Juan Carlos de BorbÓn y Borb...