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...Aviv daily Yediot Aharonot declared that both Premier Meir and Dayan were "full partners in the blunder," and should resign. The most serious threats came from within the ruling Labor Party. Deputy Premier Yigal Allon, who was upset by the humiliation of his old comrade-in-arms Elazar, told Knesset colleagues that Dayan must go. There were rumors that Allon would back up his demands by threatening to resign himself...
...week's end, Mrs. Meir had not made up her mind what to do about the report, but the matter will more than likely be put to the test when the Knesset meets for a scheduled debate this week. The Premier may try to persuade her party to accept the report as it stands and close ranks in view of the tense military situation on the Syrian border. One way out might be to shift Dayan from Defense to Foreign Minister, a move that would enable him to remain in the government and continue negotiations on Syrian disengagement...
While on a visit to Washington, D.C., a few years ago, Israeli Knesset Member Gad Yaacobi picked up his hotel telephone early one morning and dialed the White House. Asking for Henry Kissinger's office, Yaacobi identified himself and explained that he would like to drop by to talk to the President's foreign policy adviser. Normally, such a request from a relatively unimportant visitor would be brushed aside as an intrusion on Kissinger's carefully rationed tune. Yaacobi's appointment, however, was promptly arranged for 4 p.m. that same day. Recalling the incident last week...
...Underscoring her point, the government distributed a booklet, The Fallen and the Missing in the Yom Kippur War, containing the names of all 2,552 Israeli soldiers killed in action in October; the first 350,000 copies printed were quickly gone, and 150,000 more ordered. And in the Knesset, Finance Minister Pinhas Sapir set a price tag of $7.14 billion on the October war. He announced a new budget of $8.44 billion, nearly half of it for defense, and warned that Israel will have to borrow for years to come to cover war costs and maintain its security...
Premier Golda Meir had looked pale and fatigued as she sat in the Knesset waiting for parliamentary approval of her new government. But she appeared vigorous and rested last week when she and Time Inc.'s Editor in Chief talked in her Jerusalem office. Mrs. Meir joked about the problems of forming a government. But when the conversation turned to the Cabinet's first priority-disengagement with Syria-Israel's 75-year-old leader became markedly more somber. Her views...