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It was 3:30 a.m. in Jerusalem when Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres was awakened by a telephone call from California. For the next hour he and U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz discussed how to extricate the Israeli government from an ever thickening diplomatic quagmire. For ten days the...
That afternoon the Prime Minister released a brief, carefully worded statement. "Spying on the United States stands in total contradiction to our policy," it read. "Such activity, to the extent that it did take place, was wrong and the government of Israel apologizes." Peres vowed that if government officials were...
Still, the statement left disturbing questions unanswered. Would the U.S. be allowed to question key Israeli officials who may have dealt with Pollard? Would Israel return intelligence documents it had obtained through him? Who recruited Pollard? How much, if anything, did the top men in the Israeli government know about...
As part of a deal worked out in a lengthy telephone exchange last weekend between Secretary of State George P. Shultz and Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres, the documents are to be returned to the United States and the FBI will be permitted to interview two Israeli diplomats recalled in...
The outcome of Arafat's meetings suggests that the peace process still has a way to go before the kinds of talks that Peres envisages take place. "I don't see any dramatic turning point," said Israeli Foreign Minister Shamir. "The same obstacles still exist." Yes, but as Hussein told...