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...taking a historic step: it agreed to direct talks on implementing a cease-fire between Egyptian and Israeli officers at Kilometer 101, a route marker on the Cairo-Suez road. A path to peace was opening up. To explore it, Kissinger had been invited to visit Cairo. Golda Meir made a special trip to Washington to present her country's views...
...Golda Meir who arrived in Washington on Oct. 31 was a different person from the leader who had so confidently, even cockily, told Nixon a few months earlier: "We've never had it so good." The war had devastated her; Israel's 2,000 dead were the equivalent of 150,000 dead in the U.S., and she suffered with every bereaved family. In that psychological condition she had to guide her people into a new environment...
...achieve that goal. The price, however, is sometimes steep. "At work, you think of the children you've left at home. At home, you think of the work you've left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself: your heart is rent." A career woman named Golda Meir confessed that in 1973, and it still applies today...
...staff, and she looks um?built low to the ground, unlikely to topple. She is about 60. Her voice is made for speeches; her hair tied back to promote the clear, essential face. When you tell her that she reminds you of no one so much as Golda Meir, she shrieks and fumes...
...received letters from mothers whose daughters had chosen convent life after seeing the 1945 film. Opposite Humphrey Bogart in the 1943 classic Casablanca, she captured a million men's hearts as the sublime image of bittersweet love. Goodness knows what effect the actress's portrayal of Golda Meir will have on young Israeli women-or old Israeli politicians for that matter. Coaxed out of retirement to play the late Israeli leader in the Operation Prime Time TV movie, A Woman Called Golda, to be aired next May, Bergman managed to fold a Yiddish lilt into her husky Swedish...