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...GOLDA MEIR 480 pages. Putnam...
There are few odder couples than Pope Paul VI and Golda Meir. The disparity overwhelmed even Mrs. Meir two years ago as she prepared for the first official meeting between an Israeli Premier and a Roman Catholic Pontiff. "Imagine," she remarked to her aides. "I, the daughter of Moshe Mabovitch, who was just an ordinary carpenter, am actually on my way to the Holy See to meet the Pope." "Don't forget," retorted her assistant, "carpenters have a special standing there." Now that Mrs. Meir has written her memoirs, this image of the Yiddisher mama as world figure...
...married in Milwaukee, was less positive than his bride about Zionism. The marriage dissolved; the son and daughter remained with Golda and Morris disappeared into the shadows of history. He died in obscurity in Tel Aviv in 1951. Golda, changing her name to the Hebrew Meir ("Illuminate") at David Ben-Gurion's order, developed into "a public person and not a homebody." As the world knows, the former kibbutznik became political worker and global fund raiser for the Palestinian Jews. After Israel's independence in 1948, she progressed still higher: Ambassador to Moscow, Labor Minister, Foreign Minister, finally...
Stark Note. At 77, Mrs. Meir is ca pable of self-assessment - but not objectivity. In her own eyes she was inflex ible, but solely in matters that affected the welfare of Israel. Her celebrated in transigence occurred only in the eyes of "people who are not great admirers of mine." She was also a self-confident leader with "only a circle of one to con sult, myself." At the same time, after she became Premier, Mrs. Meir admits that she "could certainly understand the reservations of those people in the country who thought that a 70-year-old grandmother...
...disturbances. Cryptically, Allen told the Senators that the watchlist monitoring had prevented "a major terrorist act" in an American city. The episode apparently involved a plan by Arab terrorists to hide explosives in a car parked on a New York City street and detonate them when Israeli Premier Golda Meir, who was visiting the city, passed...