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Kissinger has a finely tuned sense of hierarchy and addresses those he deals with in subtly differing ways. When he meets Israeli leaders, for instance, Kissinger calls Golda Meir "Madame Prime Minister," while Dayan and Allon are always "Moshe" and "Yigal." Foreign Minister Abba Eban, by contrast, is simply "Eban." Explains one participant in their talks: "For Mrs. Meir he has high respect, with Dayan good rapport, with Allon comradeship. With Eban there is not much more than a colleague-to-colleague relationship, since Eban is the silent man on the team who does not have much to say." Although...
...battles had some advantages for Israel as well. Mrs. Meir was able to point to the threat of renewed fighting to convince Defense Minister Moshe Dayan to join the Cabinet (TIME, March 18). Dayan brought other holdouts with him, and a Cabinet crisis ended. By a vote of 62 to 46, with nine abstentions, the Knesset last week gave Mrs. Meir her mandate...
...aware that the Arab world's most prestigious leader is now breathing over his shoulder. Both the Palestinians and Jordan's King Hussein are also anxious to begin talks, once Syria's are completed. The Palestinians, however, received little hope of accommodation last week from Golda Meir. During the Knesset's debate on her government, Mrs. Meir warned: "Israel rejects the establishment of an additional separate Arab state west of the Jordan." Since Israel's National Religious Party, at least, insists on retaining portions of the West Bank, Mrs. Meir indicated that she plans...
There is also pressure on Israel to keep Kissinger's negotiating cycle going. Mrs. Meir admitted that "the Yom Kippur War must leave its mark on our concepts, our actions, our way of life in every sphere." 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...
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...