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...Secretary outlined the effect of recession on U.S. policy and the Washington leadership crisis that Watergate caused, sometimes in terms so specific that even State Department aides blanched at his candor. Kissinger's remarks were directly aimed at Defense Minister Shimon Peres, Israel's most adamant hawk (see following story) and at Rabin, who was Israel's ambassador in Washington during the Nixon Administration. Without threatening the Israelis, Kissinger stressed the point that the situation in Washington has changed since Rabin returned home. The U.S. is still committed to Israel, but the American mood (see box, next...
...Secretary allegedly told newsmen, was "to rescue Rabin from Peres." That may not have been exactly a joke. Israel's soft-spoken but highly articulate Defense Minister Shimon Peres, 51, the second most important man in the Israeli Cabinet, has emerged as his country's leading hawk on the crucial question of how to negotiate with the Arabs. He is thus a man that Premier Yitzhak Rabin (not to mention Kissinger) must reckon with. Peres almost defeated Rabin for the premiership last April, and is a plausible candidate to replace him if Rabin should falter...
...Egypt began receiving the first of nearly 50 MIG-23 fighter-bombers it had ordered from the Soviet Union; the Egyptians are also negotiating to buy, for an estimated $264 million, 44 Mirage warplanes from France, and are discussing the purchase of a complete Hawk trainer/strike aircraft factory from the British. Cost: more than $250 million...
Fragile Coalition. The Israeli attitude may yet frustrate the latest round of talks. Prior to Kissinger's visit, even some dovish politicians in Jerusalem were coming round to the hawk point of view that the country gave up too much for what it received during previous negotiations. On the Golan Heights, for instance, many Israelis feel that they should have held onto the provincial capital of Quneitra instead of returning it to the Syrians. Officially, Premier Rabin was authorized by his Cabinet to conclude only what Jerusalem called a thirty-fifty deal-a military pullback in the Sinai...
Game after game, though, this unlikely lion takes on what former Chicago Black Hawk Goalie Glenn Hall once called "sixty minutes of hell." Says Parent in his clipped French Canadian accent: "I like playing in that place. I always have." He is superbly suited for his work. A hockey goal, 6 ft. wide and 4 ft. high, provides a 24-sq.-ft. opening. Since the average goal tender - Parent included - fills a space of about 8 sq. ft. in his 35 lbs. of padding, his job boils down to protecting the remaining area with stick, glove or body...