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...Henry Kissinger-has achieved all that it can. (Kissinger expressed similar sentiments several months ago as he wound down his diplomatic duties.) This is sure to bring contradictory responses from Israeli leaders, in part because they have an eye on their May 17 national elections. Thus while Premier Yitzhak Rabin has expressed willingness to return to Geneva or go to "any other place" for genuine peace talks, his archrival, Defense Minister Shimon Peres, still insists that progress toward peace can be achieved by a series of limited Arab-Israeli accords...
Palestinian Representation. Neither Rabin nor Peres would go to Geneva if that would mean sitting down with members of the Palestine Liberation Organization. The unresolved question of Palestinian representation at the bargaining table remains the most formidable obstacle to a conference on the Middle East. One possible compromise has the P.L.O. attending Geneva as part of a single Arab delegation; another scheme sees the conference opening without the P.L.O. but with the implicit understanding that the delegates would devise a formula allowing eventual P.L.O. participation. Before leaving, Vance endorsed the "legitimate interests of the Palestinian people." U.S. support of these...
...with boxes-more than 100 cartons in the Situation Room alone-but Ford tried to give the appearance of carrying on business as usual. On his last full day in power, he telephoned Senators, Congressmen, old friends and several foreign leaders: Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing and Soviet Communist Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev...
...founding fathers of Israel, Knesset Member Shlomo Lorincz reminded his parliamentary colleagues, used to joke that when their state became a full-fledged nation, it would even have "Jewish crooks." Well, Lorincz added caustically, referring to the scandals that have rocked Yitzhak Rabin's government, "we are more than a nation. We are a superpower...
...Asher Yadlin, 53, was abruptly dropped last October as governor of the Bank of Israel seven weeks after Rabin appointed him to the job that is roughly equivalent to Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. Yadlin was arrested for fraud and bribery, and is currently awaiting trial. The most serious charge against him is that three years ago he allegedly accepted a $30,000 bribe in return for an engineering contract; at that time he was head of the nation's largest medical-insurance organization...