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...seven-week campaign for the party nomination was fought essentially around domestic issues, mostly on the specific point of whether the entrenched Labor leadership that Rabin represents still deserves, after 30 years in power, to continue leading the country. Rabin was hand-picked by Golda Meir three years ago to succeed her as Premier, and one savage Peres backer gibed last week: "I cannot understand the mechanism that every three months, when Rabin gets into some kind of trouble, the old lady is called back from the home for the aged to save his political career." Peres supporters also blamed...
...Henry Kissinger was Henry Kissinger and Cyrus Vance is Cyrus Vance. They don't have to be the same. We like them both." Thus spoke the grand old lady of Israeli politics, former Premier Golda Meir, after meeting with the new Secretary of State during the first stop of his first foreign mission. Her conclusion was shared by just about everyone who met the lanky, soft-spoken Vance along the route of his six-day, six-nation swing (not to be called a shuttle) through the Middle East last week...
...idea of establishing an adjacent Palestinian state. But, there has been some change in Israeli public opinion, and there is potential for movement even further. The currently widespread concern over the Palestinian problem contrasts sharply with the situation of only a couple years ago. At that time, Gold a Meir denied the very existence of a Palestinian people. The morale of the Israelis has risen markedly since the Entebbe operation, and the country feels militarily strong. Judging from the past one would expect a somewhat greater willingness, on the part of the Israelis, to deal with such a problem from...
...have clashed almost continuously since April 1974, when the ruling Labor Party's central committee, by a 298-to-254 vote, chose Rabin over Peres as its candidate to succeed Golda Meir as Premier. The latest flare-up involves Asher Yadlin, whom Rabin recently picked to be governor of the Bank of Israel, the country's No. 2 financial post. A gambling buff (he favors the Las Vegas roulette table) with an eye for pretty women, Yadlin is also a major fund raiser for the Labor Party; since 1973, he has headed Israel's huge Kupat Holim...
...Golda Meir, LL.D. From your long and arduous career we learn again the meaning of heroism...