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Rogers, who dislikes tough talk, pressed ahead for the cease-fire that his lawyer's intuition told him was possible. Mrs. Meir, in the course of a foreign policy review before the Knesset, had revealed that Israel was prepared to accept Resolution 242. So, it turned out, was Nasser. In a television interview that the Secretary of State raptly watched in his Bethesda, Md., home, Egypt's President said that he would agree to a limited ceasefire. On the assumption that neither leader would be able to reject proposals stipulating what each had already said openly, Rogers dispatched...
...Meir had the necessary votes without Gahal both to approve the Rogers plan and continue the government. Public support, it turned out, was also solidly on her side. But for the sake of unity, she offered Begin the choice of abstaining and staying in the Cabinet, or even voting against acceptance and staying in. After four Cabinet meetings that lasted a total of 20 hours, however, Begin was unmoved. The Cabinet voted 17 to 6 in favor of accepting the resolution. Gahal, having cast six votes against acceptance, pondered whether to leave the coalition...
...mild satisfaction for Mrs. Meir in the course of the heated Cabinet meetings was the fact that Nasser was under some of the same pressures. The march of 3,000 guerrillas of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and of the Action of Palestine, who denounced...
...would be an invitation to both sides to respond. Because it was too detailed and would have forced the opponents to concede too much too soon too openly, Rogers' speech was dismissed on all sides. Israel used the occasion to reinforce its request for additional jet planes; Mrs. Meir, in a September visit to Washington, had asked to buy 25 more Phantoms and 100 U.S. Skyhawks...
...political solution, and had actually prevailed on Nasser to accept the essence of the Rogers proposals-a ceasefire and negotiations. The Israelis, however, saw no evidence that Nasser had experienced such a change of heart. In an interview last week with the Paris magazine L'Express, Premier Golda Meir said: "They say Nasser cannot accept public negotiations. Well, five times, ten times, 20 times, and not later than two weeks ago, we suggested secret conversations...