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...Oval Office planning speeches, selecting film clips and listening to radio blurbs as the candidate smiled with enthusiasm or frowned with displeasure. This material was put together by crews hired by the Campaign Committee. But when those pictures of Gerald Ford meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin show up in TV ads, there will be no way known to man to separate candidate from President. We can have fun arguing about it though...
...form of racism, his polemic was not directed at the consequences of the resolution for the continued existence of Israel, but the threat the resolution posed for the survival of "Western democratic principles." To read the actual text of his general assembly speech, one might think that Ben-Gurion, Rabin and Meir were less under attack by the resolution than Locke, Hobbes and Rousseau...
Toward the end of his visit to Washington, Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin met with TIME Diplomatic Editor Jerrold Schecter and Jerusalem Correspondent Marlin Levin and assessed his talks with President Ford and Secretary of State Kissinger...
There was another mild embarrassment for both Kissinger and Rabin last week when the Chicago Sun-Times printed excerpts from a forthcoming book by Israeli Journalist Matti Golan-a nonpracticing lawyer who has served seven years as diplomatic correspondent for the Hebrew-language daily Ha'aretz. The book, tentatively titled From Confrontation to Disengagement, purportedly draws on Kissinger's private conversations with newsmen and on secret minutes of his meeting with Israeli leaders. Although it was banned by censors, a revised edition was later approved. According to Golan, Kissinger criticized Israeli Foreign Minister Yigal Allon as lacking strength...
...Rabin's reasonableness extended to money matters. Just before his arrival in Washington, it was revealed that the White House had requested $1.8 billion in military and economic aid for Israel in 1977-nearly $500 million less than it is slated to receive by the end of the current fiscal year in June. The unexpected disclosure-details of the foreign aid budget are usually presented to Congress in mid-February-embarrassed State Department officials. Although disturbed by the reduction, all of which comes from the military aid budget, Rabin did not pressure Ford for an increase. "The important thing...