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Assad will be the fourth Middle East leader Carter has met in his presidential crash course on the intricacies of Arab-Israeli diplomacy. His tutorial started out in March on a positive note. Israel's then Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was hopeful, although he and Carter never established any kind of personal rapport. Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, on the other hand, was personable and positively ebullient about peace prospects. Meanwhile, the news reaching Washington about the Assad-Brezhnev talks was upbeat: the Soviets seemed eager to resume a leadership role at comprehensive peace talks in Geneva-a role that...
Meanwhile, Rabin last week was characteristically uncertain about his future plans. Rather than seek a trial that might demean the office of Premier, he readily paid a token $ 1,600 fine for having been the co-signer of his wife's illicit bank account. His wife Leah, however, was formally indicted; if found guilty, she could be fined up to $63,000 and sentenced to three years in prison. Although he quit as Labor candidate for Israel's top job, Rabin could not resign office immediately; as head of a caretaker government, he was bound...
Like most other Israelis, Peres first learned about Premier Yitzhak Rabin's resignation when he watched the Premier's television speech on April 7. The previous night Yitzhak and Leah Rabin had been dinner guests of Peres and his wife Sonia, who, of course, knew about the resignation rumors. Rabin looked a little tense, a little sad, but gave no indication that he planned to step down...
...After Rabin's speech, Peres moved decisively to nail down the Labor Party nomination for Premier that he had twice lost by narrow margins. "I knew I had the support of the party," said Peres, but he had to prove as much to Foreign Minister Yigal Allon, 58. That involved argument, cajolement and, in the end, tough political bargaining. Only hours before the decisive meeting of the Labor Party's central committee, Allon finally agreed not to fight Peres for the top post. Peres in turn announced that the Foreign Minister would be Labor...
Peres was unhappy that Rabin did not quit as Premier immediately. But the Defense Minister refused to discuss the problems of his old antagonist directly. "You never take advantage when a fellow is in trouble," he said. "That's the first role in any civilized society. Rabin went through very deep agony. Justice demands that we make it as easy as possible to get over a very difficult period...