Word: rabin
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...Government buildings; on the Hill each member of Congress was offered an armed police escort. The Washington Monument was temporarily closed to visitors: it was within the range of snipers. Affairs of state moved forward-cautiously. At the end of his visit with President Carter, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin left quietly with no farewell ceremony; incoming British Prime Minister James Callaghan did not receive the traditional 19-gun salute, for fear it might trigger a slaughter. All this was the work of a mere dozen men who held 132 hostages in three Washington buildings for a chilling 38 hours...
...began with an apparent error of inexperience. Greeting Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, the President said that Israel should be granted "defensible borders" in any peace agreement with the Arabs. Since "defensible borders" has been a code phrase for Israel's argument not to return the Arab lands it has occupied since the 1967 war, Carter's statement alarmed State Department officials and Arab diplomats...
...fledged peace settlement (including trade, tourism, etc.), were perturbed by the notion of agreeing to give up virtually all the territory even before negotiations begin. The Arabs were pleased by the implication of nearly total Israeli withdrawal, but were upset by the notion of foreign forces on their soil. Rabin, who faces stiff opposition in the May election, professed to be happy...
Obvious Disappointment. Arab statesmen, on the other hand, who like to pretend that they pay no attention at all to Israeli politics, were obviously disappointed by the outcome. They believe that the suave, eloquent Peres is a stronger leader than the cautious, dogmatic Rabin, and that he would be willing to make unpopular decisions toward peace. Still, the vote was so narrow that not even Peres, had he won, would have felt politically secure enough at home to push for such forthright negotiations with the Arabs...
...seven-week campaign for the party nomination was fought essentially around domestic issues, mostly on the specific point of whether the entrenched Labor leadership that Rabin represents still deserves, after 30 years in power, to continue leading the country. Rabin was hand-picked by Golda Meir three years ago to succeed her as Premier, and one savage Peres backer gibed last week: "I cannot understand the mechanism that every three months, when Rabin gets into some kind of trouble, the old lady is called back from the home for the aged to save his political career." Peres supporters also blamed...