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Washington was quietly pleased by the outcome. A pre-vote invitation to Rabin from Jimmy Carter to visit the U.S. was interpreted in Israel as outright U.S. backing of the Rabin candidacy, and Peres supporters protested such undue interference in Israel's internal affairs...
...most important Labor Party convention in the country's history, the outcome was already being whispered among close to 3,000 party delegates packed into Tel Aviv's Mann Auditorium. Entering the hall to take his place among them and hear the announcement, Premier Yitzhak Rabin, 55, was greeted with knowing cries: "Rabin! Rabin! Rabin! Rabin...
...defeating Defense Minister Shimon Peres, 54, Rabin will be the Labor Party's candidate for Premier in ahead-of-schedule general elections in May. But the victory was so razor thin that it can only mean trouble for the party, the country and possibly the Middle East. With abstentions and irregularities culled, Rabin won by only 41 ballots (1,445 to 1,404), or less than 2%. Significantly, Rabin only squeaked through by sweeping the votes allotted to Israel's conservative kibbutzim, where Labor Party members traditionally get nearly double the convention representation of everyone else in recognition...
While the Israelis were not quite so effusive, Premier Yitzhak Rabin did declare that "I'm not nervous about the basic attitudes of President Carter or Secretary Vance toward Israel." The American diplomat had taken great pains to assure Israelis that the new U.S. Administration was fully committed to their country's survival...
...some respects, Vance's arrival in Israel was extraordinarily inconvenient for his hosts; they were almost totally distracted by domestic political turmoil. The Labor Party of Premier Rabin was reeling from the latest in a series of scandals; Asher Yadlin, a former high-ranking Labor Party member, had just pleaded guilty to kickback charges and allowed that the money he received had gone into the party's coffers. Rabin was uncertain of his tenure in office. Not only is he facing a strong challenge from opposition parties in the national elections scheduled...