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Looking confident and relaxed, Sadat inspected an Israeli honor guard and shook hands with an astonishing array of Israeli dignitaries. Among those on the receiving line: former Premiers Yitzhak Rabin and Golda Meir. Sadat greeted her with delight: "Madame, I have waited a long time to meet you." He smiled broadly when introduced to Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan?Israel's great hero of the 1967 Six-Day War?and was particularly eager to meet Agriculture Minister Ariel Sharon, who commanded Israel's Sinai forces in the 1973 October War. "I planned to catch you across the canal," said Sadat...
...Spencer Davidson, who has visited Israel five times and has worked out of our Cairo and Beirut bureaus, wrote the story, assisted by Reporter-Researchers Ursula Nadasdy de Gallo and Susan Reed. It was his 15th Middle East cover story; his first was in 1969 and was on Golda Meir. Most of them, he notes, "have been late-starting, because things have a way of happening suddenly over there." Sums up Davidson: "When you've spent so much time writing about the Middle East, you feel compassion for all the people involved. I hope some day to write...
...creation of three new ones. Carter said at the press conference that he had received "private assurances" that Israel did not intend its settlements as a sign of permanent occupation. Even many of the Israeli politicians who oppose Begin, however, are taking a harder line. Said former Premier Golda Meir: "The boundaries of this country have always been drawn-not by declarations, talk, lofty speeches and rhetoric-but by people willing to settle the land and work...
...Assistance. On balance. Begin had a lot more to smile about than Carter. He proved himself a charming, highly skillful diplomat-personally far more appealing than his stiff predecessor Yitzhak Rabin and perhaps even Earth Mother Golda Meir. He engaged in a sort of love feast with the President and returned to Israel with new military assistance. Only a few weeks ago, Washington was issuing stern warnings to Begin that he must be flexible. What had happened...
...constantly visible attending bar mitzvahs and berit (circumcision rites), or praying at the Wailing Wall. Unlike Rabin, a secular-minded sabra, Begin is a deeply religious man who seems quite comfortable with yarmulke, shawl and prayer book. The Premier even paid a preflight call on his old antagonist Golda Meir at her home near Tel Aviv to secure her blessing for his White House talks...