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Elsewhere, leaders hardly stayed in place long enough to be in the running as Men of the Year. Governments changed with what seemed a manic rapidity. Israel's Golda Meir left office, replaced by Yitzhak Rabin. Japan's Kakuei Tanaka resigned amid scandal, with Takeo Miki succeeding him. Western Europe seemed beset by Fraktionspolitik. Great Britain deposed Edward Heath and reinstated Harold Wilson. France's Georges Pompidou died in April and was replaced by the progressive conservative Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. West Germany's Willy Brandt resigned in the shadow...
ISRAEL. We have heard some voices there after the [October] war that speak of the Palestinian people for the first time-something to be noted in comparison with [former Premier] Golda Meir's words after 1967 that there was no such entity as Palestinian people. But they also say that the Palestinians should find their future under the flag of King Hussein, as if they could determine our fate...
...other hand, would probably be the last to admit that he is too old to run. Refusing to tell reporters last week whether he intended to make another try for the presidency, he reminded them of a couple of very elder statesmen. "Did you ever know Golda Meir?" he asked. "Konrad Adenauer? I knew them well. Great people...
...Russia, who had skills-and drives-as prodigious as her legendary predecessor Peter. From Nefertiti, the Maid of Orleans and Elizabeth I down to modern times, women leaders have left their mark. The 1970s alone have seen no fewer than four female heads of state: Israel's Golda Meir, India's Indira Gandhi, Sri Lanka's Sirimavo Bandaranaike and Argentina's Isabelita Perón, who took over the presidency last week on the death of her husband...
Dynamic and eloquent, Peres seems well suited for the job. In the last Cabinet of Premier Golda Meir, he served as Transport Minister. Before that, Peres had been director general in the Defense Ministry, as a protégé of Premier David Ben-Gurion, then became Deputy Minister of Defense to Dayan...