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Since then, the President has increasingly emerged from the shadow of Kissinger. He has held personal well-publicized talks with Soviet Communist Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin. He has markedly improved his grasp of foreign affairs (see interview page 14). As a result, he speaks out more confidently. He has recently been at pains to stress the U.S. commitment to South Korea and suggest the possibility of using tactical nuclear weapons in its defense...
Fahmy's warning reflected Egyptian exasperation at the indecisive results of recent talks in Bonn between Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin (TIME, July 21). Egypt had hoped this latest in a long series of Sinai discussions would produce an agreement under which Israeli troops would withdraw to the eastern edge of the strategic Mitla and Giddi passes. Instead, Rabin asked for further "clarifications" from Cairo...
Before leaving Tel Aviv, Rabin told newsmen that he was undertaking the West German visit "with mixed feelings as a Jew and as an Israeli." A Sabra who was born in 1922 on a farm near Jerusalem, Rabin nonetheless still counts himself "an heir to the Holocaust." As if to emphasize that point, his next stop after Bergen-Belsen was West Berlin, where he paid a visit to the city's Jewish Community Center. It stands on the site of what was once Berlin's Central Synagogue. All that remains of the original building is a chunk...
...Rabin's aim on his five-day visit was to link this doleful past with a more hopeful future. Yet even that future is unsettled, mainly because the relationship between Tel Aviv and Bonn appears to be changing. No European nation has closer ties with Israel than does the Federal Republic, which long ago established a "special relationship" with the Jewish state. In compensation for the horrors of the Holocaust, the West German government has paid reparations to Jews of more than $20 billion, including $800 million to Israel itself. Recently Bonn took the lead in Common Market deliberations...
...however, the special character of the relationship should continue to prove helpful to Israel. Rabin and Chancellor Helmut Schmidt reached no dramatic decisions in their conversations last week. Much of their time together was spent reviewing the Middle East situation, with Schmidt pressing Rabin to accept concessions that would lead to peace. In private conversations, however, West German officials indicated at least obliquely that if another Middle East war occurred and Israel needed European landing rights for planes bringing supplies from the U.S., this would be no problem...