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...member group, organized by Martin H. Peretz, lecturer on Social Studies, and Michael L. Walzer, professor of Government, spent ten days in Israel interviewing government officials, including Prime Minister Golda Meir, Defense Minister Moshe Dayan, and Foreign Minister Abba Eban...
...added that Meir told the group that the reason such an agreement had not been reached before a war broke out was that the Egyptians "had no chips with which to bargain" before their military successes...
...think of history run by impersonal forces," he mused. "But when you see it in practice you see the differences that the personalities make. The overtures to China would not have worked without Chou Enlai. There would have been no settlement in the Middle East without Sadat and Golda Meir and Dayan...
...Jerusalem, the sense of accommodation was equally evident. As a new Knesset was sworn in-with Premier Golda Meir* as its oldest member taking the oath first-the Labor-dominated government won easy approval (76-35) for the disengagement agreement. In addressing the Knesset, Mrs. Meir announced that Israel does not consider the eventual pullback line in the Sinai -to be reached 12 days after the west bank retirement is finished-as a permanent border. "It has been our position from the start," she said, "that the separation of forces is not the ultimate goal, for we are prepared...
...Fedayeen Leader Yasser Arafat, who was in Egypt at the time, a rump session of the Palestinian Liberation Organization Executive Committee last week passed a resolution proclaiming "no to American peace and victory for the Palestinian people." A renewed campaign of terrorism could touch off Israeli reprisals, destroying Mrs. Meir's policy of accommodation...