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...enjoying a regular year-end pastime offering suggestions for TIME'S Man of the Year. This year the Apollo 11 and 12 astronauts, fulfilling the promise of 1968's Men of the Year, ranked high. So did Ralph Nader, Spiro T. Agnew and the American G.I. Golda Meir, F. Lee Bailey, Wernher Von Braun and Arlo Guthrie all had their supporters...
...Jerusalem, Premier Golda Meir spoke angrily last week of the "erosion" of U.S. policy and accused Washington of "appeasement"; one Israeli paper went so far as to call it "Mu-nichism." Secretary of State William Rogers replied that the U.S. was merely being "evenhanded." Added Rogers: "We have to conduct our foreign policy in a way that we think is best for our national interests." The statement seemed unexceptional, but it convinced some Israelis that substantial U.S. investments in Arab oil and commerce were behind the shift toward neutrality...
Some Israeli officials conceded last week that perhaps they have been misjudging U.S. policy for months. The shift, after all, has not been that sudden. Because Mrs. Meir was warmly welcomed when she visited the U.S. three months ago, Israel's public, basking in the glow, paid little attention to the fact that she returned from Washington virtually emptyhanded, or to Ambassador Rabin's warnings that relations were deteriorating. The only major assistance that the U.S. has given Israel during the Nixon Administration-50 Phantom jets-was originally approved during the Johnson Administration. Nothing more has been forthcoming...
...took Premier Golda Meir an entire month of bargaining to put together a Cabinet after last October's elections, in which her Labor party failed to win an absolute majority. But the time was obviously well spent. Last week she introduced to the Knesset (Parliament) the largest Cabinet in Israeli history. A coalition of five parties representing nearly 90% of the electorate, Golda's Cabinet was so large, in fact, that smaller chairs had to be used to accommodate the 24 ministers at the government table in the parliamentary chamber...
Reflecting the current mood in Israel, the new Cabinet was also the most militant in a decade. In a speech to the Knesset, Mrs. Meir reiterated her objections against Big Four peace plans ("There is no point in playing with formula and compromise suggestions"), endorsed the building of more Israeli settlements in the occupied territories, and stressed that her government would settle for nothing less than a genuine peace accord in which the Arabs would accept Israel's right to exist as a sovereign state...