Word: perese
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The frankest talk of all, however, occurred in Jerusalem in what Kissinger likened to "a family quarrel, loud and noisy." The Secretary outlined the effect of recession on U.S. policy and the Washington leadership crisis that Watergate caused, sometimes in terms so specific that even State Department aides blanched at...
One goal of Henry Kissinger's recent Middle East trip, the Secretary allegedly told newsmen, was "to rescue Rabin from Peres." That may not have been exactly a joke. Israel's soft-spoken but highly articulate Defense Minister Shimon Peres, 51, the second most important man in the...
Indeed, Jerusalem's negotiating position today is pretty much what the Defense Secretary wants it to be. Last fall he singlehandedly scotched Kissinger's suggestion that Israel should unilaterally withdraw from parts of the Sinai as a friendship gesture to Egypt by threatening to resign from the Cabinet...
Since he took over the defense ministry from his friend Moshe Dayan less than a year ago, the Polish-born Peres has earned a reputation as a highly effective administrator who has helped rebuild the Israeli army's morale, which was shattered by the losses of the October war...
The diplomatic problem, as Kissinger has pointed out to the Israelis, is that Sadat cannot make a nonbelligerency commitment without running the danger of alienating his Arab allies. In rebuttal last week, Israelis argued that Rabin, a political novice who heads a fragile coalition government, is just as vulnerable to...