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...Golda Meir, premier of Israel since 1969, resigned yesterday as head of the Israeli government...
...Meir made the announcement at a closed meeting of her executive, or governing council, Shimon Peres, Israeli transport minister, said yesterday. Peres said that Meir gave no detailed reason for her resignation. He said she implied the reason was "the half-hearted reception" for her plans to form a minority government...
...Neither Meir's Labor party, nor ministers of the present cabinet indicated who might take over as premier...
...remarkable jet shuttle between Aswan and Jerusalem that Secretary of State Henry Kissinger employed to achieve an Egyptian-Israeli disengagement agreement was distinctively different at either end. At the Israeli terminus, Kissinger often had to await a consensus on issues in the talks among the members of Premier Golda Meir's Cabinet. On the Egyptian end, in contrast, he essentially dealt only with President Anwar Sadat. The Egyptian President has so improved his stature since taking uncertain control of the government on the death of Gamal Abdel Nasser in 1970 that he was able to accept or turn down...
This movement has been reflected in the Israeli policy toward giving up the occupied territories--chiefly meaning the west bank of the Jordan--as part of a comprehensive peace agreement. Walzer said Meir told the group that the so-called Allon Plan was now official Tel Aviv policy; previously it had been considered a somewhat dovish alternative...