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...played first the Egyptian national anthem, By God of Old, Who Is My Weapon, and then the Israeli Hatikvah. In a hushed, deeply moving tableau, Sadat walked along the receiving line with Israeli Premier Menachem Begin to greet the old and resolute enemies: former Premiers Yitzhak Rabin and Golda Meir, Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan, Ariel Sharon, "Israel's Patton," who thrust Israeli armor deep into Egypt in the October...
...chairman, Ray showed she was just as tough as Schlesinger suspected. Says one former AEC member: "She has a streak of Golda Meir in her." She created a separate division to set up stiffer safety standards for reactors, although the move affronted some top AEC officials who claimed it was unnecessary. She also made the AEC pay more heed to environmental-impact studies on reactors...
...video technology monitored the principals in one of the planet's oldest enmities, as they performed for the world on their biblical home ground. The effect was eerie and complicated. Sometimes it produced a charming bathos, as when, under TV's smiling gaze, former Premier Golda Meir made fond Jewish grandmother's banter with Sadat about his new grandchild. In October 1973, the two had hurled armies at one another across the Sinai...
...says that merely observing an event subtly alters it. Though both are experienced hams, Sadat and Begin knew (as televisionwise antiwar demonstrators of the '60s chanted) that "the whole world is watching." They both understood quite well the effect they were creating; they consciously used the medium. Golda Meir said later: "I am not sure whether in the end they will get the Nobel, but for certain both should get the Oscar." Yet the very nature of the event and the presence of the medium enlarged their behavior and their gestures-which in this case were gestures...
Golda is a conscientious, reverential, monumental bore. The real Golda Meir should...