Word: rabin
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...welcoming ceremony on the sodden south lawn of the White House, President Ford and Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin stoically stood bareheaded in the cold rain while a fife-and-drum ensemble dressed in Continental Army uniforms drilled before them. Since Egyptian President Anwar Sadat had been treated to an outdoor reception during his triumphant visit last November, the same courtesy had to be extended to Rabin-rain or shine. "According to Jewish tradition," said Rabin, glancing at the skies, "rain means blessing...
...major problem with a Geneva conference: how to deal with Palestinian representation. Rabin reiterated last week that Israel would accept Palestinians as part of a Jordanian delegation (see box, next page) but would refuse to deal directly with the hated Palestine Liberation Organization. "We know what the [P.L.O.] objective is," he said. "It is written large into the Palestinian Covenant, which is their binding constitution. Every paragraph of it spits out the venom calling for Israel's destruction." Because of the U.S. Jewish lobby's influence in the elections, Ford and Kissinger are unlikely to put strong pressure...
...Washington, Rabin tried to present a softer image for Israel. Speaking before a joint meeting of Congress, he said that he was "ready to meet with any Arab head of government at any time and at any place." He quoted Sadat's remark to Congress that "there is no substitute for direct person-to-person contact" and then won applause by adding, "I wish that he would direct those words to me as well...
...Israel's ports for passage of Arab goods, of its hospitals for the treatment of Arab sick and its research institutes for the training of Arab students. As in an earlier speech in Philadelphia-where he took his text from the biblical inscription on the Liberty Bell*-Rabin quoted from American heroes, including Jefferson, Franklin, Adams, Twain and Jonas Phillips, a Jewish soldier who fought in the Revolutionary...
...Assad refused to extend the mandate of the U.N. Disengagement Observer Force on the Golan Heights unless the Council scheduled a review of the Middle East situation and allowed the P.L.O. to take part. The presence of the P.L.O. prompted an Israeli boycott of the Council session; Premier Yitzhak Rabin's Cabinet unanimously resolved "not to conduct negotiations with terrorist organizations in any forum." A high Israeli official agreed that even "mentioning Palestinians makes them a political reality...