Word: menachem
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...four-day tour of the Middle East. As Mondale left Alexandria for Washington last week, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat handed him a new six-point peace plan to pass on to Israel. The plan is Egypt's response to a 26-point proposal presented by Israeli Premier Menachem Begin at the Ismailia conference last December. Washington sources optimistically contended that the two plans, although predictably far apart on every major issue, would serve as "a fair basis for negotiations...
...This was a theme stressed by Vice President Walter Mondale, who arrived in Israel last week on a four-day good-will visit in honor of the country's 30th anniversary. While publicly stressing the "solid and unshakeable commitment" linking the U.S. to Israel, he privately urged Premier Menachem Begin and other Israeli leaders to show more flexibility...
...government of Premier Menachem Begin took its time in arriving at its answers. When it finally did so last week, it was almost a year to the day after the ailing Polish-born guerrilla fighter and political mystic came to power and seven months following Sadat's "sacred mission" to Jerusalem. But the passage of time had not changed attitudes. The Israeli government's response was only a crisp observation that five years after a peace agreement Israel would be willing to negotiate "the nature of future relations" between itself and the West Bank. With that virtual nonanswer...
TIME'S Jerusalem bureau chief Donald Neff assesses Menachem Begin on the first anniversary of his premiership...
...just a year ago that the former guerrilla leader and ultranationalist Menachem Begin came to power - and all the worst fears, and more, of his critics have since come to pass. More than any other man, Begin has set back the chances for peace in the Middle East. He has proved inflexible, myopic, hard-lining and probably deceptive, especially in his dealings with Washington...