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Last week in New York, U.S. Treasury agents took a tentative step in that direction, arresting the league's acid-tongued leader, Rabbi Meir D. Kahane, and six of his followers. The seven were seized on federal warrants charging conspiracy to violate the Gun Control Act of 1968 by transporting weapons into the New York area. Within hours, Kahane was free on $25,000 bail and, ironically, charging persecution. Moreover, Kahane concluded a bizarre alliance with Joseph A. Colombo Sr., a reputed Mafia member and founder of the Italian-American Civil Rights League, to fight what both termed harassment...
...hour re laxing at the palm-fringed pool of the Nile Hilton Hotel. Refreshed by a night time visit to the Sphinx and the Pyramids, Rogers next morning met with Sadat for two hours and 45 minutes. Flying on to Israel, Rogers held two meetings with Premier Golda Meir and her advisers. Said one Israeli who happened to be outside Mrs. Meir's Jerusalem of fice while the first meeting was still going on: "It sounded like a family fight. I thought they were going to come to blows...
...exchanges with both sides, Rogers noted barely perceptible signs of give. The Egyptians indicated that the military force on the east bank need not be terribly large. In a second, two-hour-and-50-minute discussion with Mrs. Meir, Rogers was told that Israel might not object if nonmilitary Egyptians crossed the canal; there were hints that policemen might be considered nonmilitary. The question, of course, was whether Cairo would accept such a limitation on its sovereignty. By week's end, when he headed for Rome and then home, Rogers was sufficiently encouraged to announce that he was sending Sisco...
...appears increasingly convinced that the Israelis have grown too rigid, as indeed they have. The Israelis feel that the Americans, particularly Rogers and his State Department, are so anxious to restore U.S. influence in the Arab world that they are willing to impose unacceptable risks on Israel. Golda Meir's government maintains that its policy of tenacity will compel the Arabs to come around eventually if only the U.S. and other major powers would quit meddling. "For God's sake," pleads a top Israeli diplomat, "let us bargain with the Egyptians. Don't force us into things...
...change Rogers' mind. After all, Israeli officials in Jerusalem say, there is really very little to discuss. Secretary Rogers in recent months has heard Israel's position explained and expounded by every ranking Cabinet member, including eloquent, British-educated Foreign Minister Abba Eban and Premier Golda Meir, who sounds in English like the no-nonsense Milwaukee schoolteacher she used to be. 'The Secretary knows our position well," said an Israeli official last week. "It has been explained to him in Cambridge English, broken English and just plain English...