Word: premier
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Begin did display flexibility on procedural matters. He suggested that at Geneva, after opening statements the parties might split into "mixed commissions"-that is, Israeli groups meeting separately with teams from Egypt, Syria and Jordan. The Premier also said Israel was prepared to negotiate on such mixed commissions even if the Arabs refused to go to Geneva. He even agreed, as a last resort, to "proximity talks" like those held at Rhodes, where the late Ralph Bunche moved between two groups in different rooms of the same hotel to work out the 1949 Israeli-Arab armistices...
...wanted to talk about the Palestinians, the President smilingly interjected, "Now you've got a chance to make some really big news." The two men lavished praise on each other at a White House working dinner. Carter called Begin "a man of truth and quiet dignity." The Premier answered that his host was "a great friend of humanity" and later said he had a "good heart"-the highest of praises, according to the teaching of post-Talmudic sages in the Pirkei Avot (Sayings of the Fathers...
...done with other guests from the Middle East, Carter invited Begin upstairs to the family quarters for a 90-minute private chat. Ritualistically, the Premier was invited to look at a sleeping Amy. He also met Miz Lillian and gallantly kissed her hand. Miz Lillian, Begin observed, reminded him of his own mother, a Polish Jew who was killed by German storm troopers near Cracow...
Begin impressed White House and State Department aides as witty, bright, shrewd-and tough as nails. The only top member of Carter's entourage who had met him before was Brzezinski. From the Israeli Holocaust memorial, Yad Vashem, the Premier had brought copies of letters written in 1933 by Brzezinski's father Tadeusz, at the time Polish consul in Leipzig. The elder Brzezinski in those stern memos to German authorities had protested their discrimination against Jews. It was a well-meant but pointed gift, indeed, to the younger Brzezinski, whom the Israelis have tabbed as pro-Arab...
...cutthroat world of Communist politics, there are no second chances-with one exception. Last week Peking's official Hsinhua News Agency announced that the Central Committee of the Communist Party had voted to restore Teng Hsiao-p'ing, 73, to his former posts as Vice Premier, Vice Chairman of the party and Chief of Staff of the Army. At the same time, said the communique, the "Gang of Four" headed by Mao Tse-tung's widow, Chiang Ch'ing, had "once and for all" been expelled from the party and dismissed "from all posts inside...