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Carter had a chillingly unsuccessful meeting with Begin's predecessor, Yitzhak Rabin, last March, and warm ones with four key Arab leaders: Egypt's Anwar Sadat, Syria's Hafez Assad, Jordan's King Hussein and Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Fahd. Despite serious and perhaps insurmountable policy differences with Israel, Administration officials are doing their best to downplay the prospect of a clash between Carter and Begin. "There will be significant differences of opinion," says one official involved with the advanced planning, "but they are not going to be throwing chairs at each other...
Unlike his dour predecessor, Yitzhak Rabin, Israel's new Premier is outgoing, courtly and affable. He has an irrepressible urge to press flesh; probably no other Israeli politician has shaken so many hands or bussed so many cheeks. He is aware that Rabin's last visit to the White House was flawed by the lack of personal rapport between Rabin and Carter. To prevent that kind of psychological impasse, Begin and his aides have worked for weeks discussing not only what he should say to the President but how to say it and when. Thus Begin may well...
Adams' decision went well beyond one by his predecessor, William Coleman, who in January got a commitment from General Motors and Ford that they would make 440,000 air-bag-equipped cars starting in fall 1979. But it did not end the nine-year debate over the bags. Ralph Nader, who together with other consumerists and the Allstate Insurance Co. had lobbied hard for the bags, was disappointed by the four-to six-year lead time granted automakers to install the devices. Sniffed Nader: "If the industry can build a Mustang in 30 months, it could be speeded...
Although the Begin government's triumvirate is notoriously hawkish, Israeli generals are not monolithically hard-line in their politics. Rabin, the only ex-general ever to head the government, turned out to be somewhat more moderate than his predecessor Golda Meir. Former Quartermaster General Matityahu Peled, who teaches Arabic studies at Tel Aviv University, is one of the few prominent Israelis who support the idea of a Palestinian state...
...going on. I've seen him shift his position during a meeting, or shift from one meeting to another as the consensus changes." In other words, Burns takes care to move the discussion in the direction in which agreement seems to lie. The role of Burns' predecessor, William McChesney Martin, was far more passive...