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...Leah Rabin, wife of Israel's Premier, stood up to address a session of the International Women's Conference in Mexico City (TIME, June 30), the Arabs, Africans and Communists who made up more than half the audience streamed out. To those who remained, Rabin observed philosophically: "I know countries have conflicts and misunderstandings, but not to be willing to sit down and listen to each other is to reject the point and goals of our being here together...
...world's largest consciousness-raising group." The consciousness-raisers present included one female Prime Minister, Sirimavo Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka, and about a dozen wives of national leaders, promptly dubbed "wifey-poos" by disdainful feminists. Among them: Jehan Sadat of Egypt, Nusrat Bhutto of Pakistan, Leah Rabin of Israel, and Imelda Marcos of the Philippines...
Sign Language. Rabin and his government were unmistakably worried about the "reassessment" of U.S. Middle East policy that the Administration ostensibly has been carrying on since the shuttle talks collapsed. So far, the reassessment has resulted in the tabling by the White House of Israeli requests to purchase such sophisticated U.S. weapons as F-15 jets and Lance surface-to-surface missiles. The Israelis were buoyed by the recent letter of support signed by 76 Senators. But relations between Washington and Jerusalem have nonetheless cooled to the point that Rabin's entourage held conversations at Blair House last week...
...strained relations between the two governments also aroused a few suspicions (quickly denied in Washington) that U.S. intelligence, in order to embarrass Rabin, might have leaked stories to the effect that recent Israeli troop withdrawals in Sinai were not what they seemed to be. At the end of Ford's meeting with Sadat, the Israelis, as a token of their interest in peace, announced that they were thinning out their 7,000 troops in the Limited Forces Zone in the Sinai. As it turned out, the Israelis had earlier reduced their forces to about 3,500; in some sectors...
Publicly President Ford avoided any hint of what he and Rabin were talking about. At one point, when newsmen in the midst of a Washington drizzle asked him about progress, Ford looked at the sky and said straight-faced, "It's a nice day." Privately he and Kissinger tried to convince Rabin that Israel should give up the Mitla and Giddi passes in the Sinai as well as the Abu Rudeis oilfields as part of a disengagement agreement. If Israel agreed, the U.S. was likely not only to be more generous with military and economic...