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Attired in a black brocade suit, carrying a crocodile bag anda rare sign of respect from a woman who prefers to be bareheaded-wearing a Persian-lamb hat flown in for the occasion by El Al, Israeli Premier Golda Meir last week called on Pope Paul VI. Although the Pontiff has met Israeli leaders before,-it was his first encounter in the Vatican with the country's chief of government. Unfortunately the historic moment seemed at first to create as much friction as good will. For that matter, so did most of the major events...
...Pompidou is already running as if the vote were to be held next week. At a news conference in the Elysée Palace last week, the President played to his conservative constituency. He pointedly declared that he would not meet with four national leaders-Israel's Golda Meir, Sweden's Olof Palme, Denmark's Anker Jörgensen and Austria's Bruno Kreisky-who were due in Paris to attend an annual meeting of the Socialist International this week. "They are coming here as militants," Pompidou protested, "not as chiefs of state." Two days later...
...lawyer in Beirut who specializes in international law, "the Israelis will be building on sand, legally speaking as well as literally. But that has never deterred them in the past." Indeed not, judging by one of Zionism's favorite epics. In 1909 a band of Jewish families followed Meir Dizengoff out of Jaffa to a deserted stretch of dunes; they listened in hope and disbelief as Dizengoff prophesied that a Jewish community of 25,000 would rise on the sand where they stood...
...Sinai plan was hotly debated at a recent meeting of Premier Golda Meir's Labor coalition. "Who has the strength to undertake such a city?" asked Finance Minister Pinhas Sapir, citing initial cost estimates of $950 million. Dayan's answer: "I believe in the power of the Jewish people...
...government has not formally responded to such attacks other than by trying to muffle them. Last year in a radio interview, however, Golda Meir did offer a bromidic standard of sorts. She observed when asked about censorship: "Nothing is moral or immoral. There is only beauty and ugliness. I have learned that the same thing can be beautiful and ugly, and I am in favor of beautiful things...