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...most seats in Israel's Knesset (Parliament), the country might have changed its position from one favoring talks with the Arabs to a hardline, no-negotiation policy. But after a record 83% of 2,040,000 eligible voters marked their ballots, the results showed that Premier Golda Meir's Labor Party had won again...
Still, the victory was by no means clear cut. Flying into Washington last week for discussions with Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Defense Secretary James Schlesinger, Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan brought along short-term good news and long-term bad news. The good news for Mrs. Meir's Labor Party was that the government, although it had lost six of its 57 seats in the 120-seat Knesset, would be able to form another coalition of perhaps as many as 69 members. It thus could continue the disengagement talks. The bad news was that its most essential...
...Geneva Conference has proved to be a boon to Israel's war-battered Labor Party coalition, diverting the voters' attention from the trauma of the October fighting to the hope of a genuine peace settlement between Israelis and Arabs. Golda Meir's ruling party has been locked in the fight of its life against the new opposition coalition called Likud (Union) which, like the Gahal coalition before it, is headed by Extreme Nationalist Menachem Begin...
Middle Sinai. In Israel, Kissinger passed on to Premier Golda Meir the assertion by Assad that the Israeli P.O.W.s held by Syria (estimated in Jerusalem as 102 men) were being well treated. The Israelis were reassured by Kissinger that the U.S. will not force them to relinquish captured territory. Kissinger did, however, get across the message that it would be helpful if they were willing to negotiate the point. Israel also understood that it has veto power over any other delegations to be seated at the conference table. Thus the Israelis can oppose recognition of a separate Palestinian delegation...
...nominate Golda Meir for Woman of the Year...