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...Queen Salome Alexandra, who succeeded to the throne after the death of her husband in 76 B.C. Last week in Israel a third woman took over, but for the first two days not even members of the Cabinet knew it. Finally, Foreign Minister Golda Meir, 61, rose in the Cabinet to inform her colleagues that Premier David Ben-Gurion, 72, had set sail for a much-needed vacation on the Riviera, had kept his departure secret to avoid any fuss. Before he left, he had written a letter designating who should take over his duties as Premier and Minister...
...bolster up his own apathetic party, the Premier called home articulate, erudite Abba Eban, 44, Israel's able, longtime Ambassador to the U.S. and the United Nations, invited him to get into politics. South Africa-born, Cambridge-educated Abba Eban will presumably be groomed to replace ailing Golda Meir (formerly of Milwaukee) as Foreign Minister. First he must get in touch with domestic problems, and learn to leaven his meticulous classical Hebrew with the kind of everyday Hebrew that contemporary Israelis understand...
...Israelis particularly hoped for were positive assurances, in writing and publicly pronounced, that Washington and London would work to guarantee Israel's borders, and would come to Israel's aid if it was attacked. At week's end Israel's Milwaukee-raised Foreign Minister Golda Meir was invited to London on short notice. She had just held "satisfactory" talks with the French in Paris, where the De Gaulle government promised stepped-up arms shipments (Israel and France have been buddies against Nasser since Suez). From the British, about whom Israelis feel less sure, Minister Meir wanted...
Last week, in a refinement that included names, time and places, Nasser's Voice of the Arabs began broadcasting a story that Jordan's Foreign Minister Samir Rifai had met secretly last September with Israel's Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion and Foreign Minister Golda Meir near the Jordanian town of Nablus, and with King Hussein's full approval arranged to resettle Jordan's 500,000 refugees in return for $30 million that the U.S. would make available through Israel. "They will annihilate him," shrilled the Voice of the Arabs, and Cairo's newspaper...
Foolish Son. Screaming ambulances arrived a few minutes later to carry Shapiro to the hospital. When he was gone, police took the doughty Premier, Foreign Minister Golda Meir, Transport Minister Moshe Carmel and Health Minister Israel Barzilai to the hospital in cars to have their lesser injuries treated...