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...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 and imagination, called Defense Minister Shimon Peres "a pseudo hawk" who terrorized his colleagues, and dismissed Rabin as "too small a man for the job." Rabin was equally candid about Kissinger: "It isn't possible to believe a word that man is saying." Asked about Golan's book, a State Department spokesman said: "We are not going to comment...
...microphones and cables. He gave his guitar a few licks and then, from behind the mask, started singing. The applause began to grow. After a pulsating rendition of an old favorite, It Ain 't Me, Babe, he pulled back the mask to reveal the familiar ironic smile and hawk's eyes of the single most influential poet of the entire rock era. The crowd went wild...
...will conquer and subjugate the world," says Sun Myung Moon. "I am your brain." The latter statement is quite literally true for a growing coterie of young American converts, who regard the South Korean cult leader (TIME, Sept. 30, 1974) as the second Christ. Asking no questions, they obediently hawk candy and flowers, raising millions to spread the faith. They exist on a shoestring, while Moon, 55, lives in lordly fashion in a 25-room mansion in New York's Westchester County...
Curiously, some of the OPEC nations most noted in the past as firebrands pushing for ever-higher prices are among those now raising their crude less than the agreed-upon 10%. Algeria has hiked its prices only 8.5%. Indonesia, another former price hawk, raised some quotes but cut others so that its increases average a mere 1.6%. "Basically we are staying put on price, but as a good member of OPEC we had to go through the motions," said Mohammad Sadli, the nation's minister of mines, in Washington last week...
Elegant and worldly, with the profile of a melancholy hawk, Nadelman was adored by rich women and duly married a millionairess; he acquired a Manhattan house and a splendid estate on the Hudson. In five years (between 1923 and 1928) the Nadelmans spent more than half a million dollars buying American folk art and were the first systematic collectors...