Word: rabins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
...succession of scandals has led Rabin's opponents to charge that he 28 lacks the ability to lead. That, along with rising prices, high taxes and rampant inflation, has sapped Rabin's power to the point that he recently resigned and called for new elections (TIME, Jan. 3). Rabin was appointed caretaker Premier, and last week the Knesset formally voted a bill of dissolution and set the election for May 17. The vote, six months ahead of schedule, will almost certainly focus on domestic issues. It will also delay the resumption of serious Middle East peace talks, even...
...Guilty. Rabin delivered the eulogy at Ofer's funeral. Speaking to the country's political elite at a crowded service in Tel Aviv, Rabin recalled how Ofer had come to him to discuss the accusations in what turned out to be their final meeting. "Your words still ring in my ears," the Premier said. ' 'Yitzhak,' you told me, 'believe me, I am not guilty of any transgressions.' I replied to you, Avraham, that I, Yitzhak Rabin, wholly trust in your innocence...
...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...