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...been planning a trip to Europe, Nixon cautioned him: "You'd better not make any travel plans for the next month or so. I'll need you close by." But none of this had altogether prepared Henry Kissinger for the news that he, an immigrant, a Jew, a professor who still spoke English with a marked German accent, was about to become the nation's 56th Secretary of State. He told the President -what else could he say?-that he certainly had no objection to his name being submitted to the Senate for confirmation. Then, still...
...first reaction of many Arab newspapers to Kissinger's appointment was to object to the fact that he is a Jew. KISSINGER BECOMES THE FIRST JEWISH U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE, headlined Beirut's al Moharrer. On the other hand, many Arab diplomats were waiting to see whether Kissinger would take as energetic a role in settling the Arab-Israeli impasse as he did in ending the Viet Nam War. Some wondered whether, in the Kissinger view, Palestinians should play as vital a part in Middle East peace talks as the Viet Cong did at the conference table...
...still face the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and be confirmed. He did not want to talk plans and programs, techniques and hopes, grand ideas for his New World. He was obviously rather awed by his new nomination and yet not the least bit afraid of it. A German-born Jew, unpropertied, unelegant and unimposing, Henry Kissinger seemed ready to move toward the pantheon of national greats...
...diversification, Black -an Orthodox Jew who follows strict dietary rules-is still high on bananas. He considers this relative of the lily family a cheap source of both protein and calories. United Brands earlier this year opened a 9,000-acre banana plantation in the Philippines with an eye to the Asian market. Company executives are also negotiating with a number of Eastern European governments in the hope of getting them to consider Chiquita bananas not a symbol of Yanqui imperialism but a part of Communist diets...
...Israelis have two interests on the West Bank: first, the right to settle everywhere and to buy land. We do not have to expel the Arabs, but if they want to sell a piece of land and a Jew wants to buy, why shouldn't he have the right to do so. [Because the status of the occupied territories is still unsettled, the Israeli government has forbidden Jews to buy land on the West Bank.] The other interest is security. We have no ambi tion to be the rulers of the Moslem Arabs, but it is a different thing...