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...Israel, after a one-hour flight from Alexandria, Premier Golda Meir insisted on meeting Nancy Kissinger before any official business in order to present her own wedding gift: two ancient Roman vases, one of which was a "tear cup" in which were supposedly collected the tears shed by brides over traveling husbands...
...Israel, where former Ambassador to the U.S. Yitzhak Rabin was chosen as Premier-designate to succeed Golda Meir, officials spoke apprehensively of what they referred to as Washington's "loving honeymoon with the Arabs." Said one: "What the Americans are doing is not cutting into our flesh; it's just scratching our skin a bit. It has not cost us anything so far. When it does, then we will start screaming." The screaming would presumably start if the U.S. began supplying Egypt with weapons now that Cairo has said it would no longer wholly depend on the Soviet...
...amicable vote, the party's central committee chose Labor Minister Yitzhak Rabin, 52, over Information Minister Shimon Peres, 51, to become Israel's fifth Premier. Rabin will have six weeks at most to put together a coalition government to succeed the present caretaker Cabinet of Premier Golda Meir. If he fails-as some believe he will-new elections will likely be called...
Rabin's selection shattered precedent. The shy, slender, native-born son of an American father and Russian mother is the first Sabra to be named Premier-designate after a succession of Eastern European Jews, including Mrs. Meir, who arrived in Palestine in the first waves of immigration. He is the youngest Premier-designate; almost the age of the state of Israel itself (26 years) separates him from 76-year-old Mrs. Meir. He is also the first nonpolitician to hold the job. He made his reputation first as armed forces Chief of Staff and the architect of Israel...
Bickering Factions. The present caretaker government is a fragile coalition of Labor with the largely conservative National Religious Party, the Independent Liberal Party and Israeli Arab members of the Knesset. The alliance gave Mrs. Meir only a slim majority: 68 seats in a Parliament of 120 members. Bickering among the factions was one reason her government finally caved in. Rabin will have to use all of his generalship and his diplomatic persuasion to retain the ten Religious Party members. They differ with his moderate views on ceding some occupied territories as part of the peacemaking process; they also have...