Word: shimon
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...morning, Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin was at army headquarters in Tel Aviv. Defense Minister Shimon Peres and Chief of Staff Mordecai Gur arrived soon after at Ge'ula Street to take command. Meanwhile, the Arab commandos chose Kochava Levi, who had picked up Arabic in the streets, to translate to Israeli officials their demand for a plane to take the hostages and ten Palestinians held in Israeli prisons to Damascus or Paris. Bandaging the wounded with ripped sheets and shouting the guerrillas' terms down from a fourth-floor window, Kochava emerged as the unexpected heroine of the drama...
...family quarrel, loud and noisy." The Secretary outlined the effect of recession on U.S. policy and the Washington leadership crisis that Watergate caused, sometimes in terms so specific that even State Department aides blanched at his candor. Kissinger's remarks were directly aimed at Defense Minister Shimon Peres, Israel's most adamant hawk (see following story) and at Rabin, who was Israel's ambassador in Washington during the Nixon Administration. Without threatening the Israelis, Kissinger stressed the point that the situation in Washington has changed since Rabin returned home. The U.S. is still committed to Israel...
...goal of Henry Kissinger's recent Middle East trip, the Secretary allegedly told newsmen, was "to rescue Rabin from Peres." That may not have been exactly a joke. Israel's soft-spoken but highly articulate Defense Minister Shimon Peres, 51, the second most important man in the Israeli Cabinet, has emerged as his country's leading hawk on the crucial question of how to negotiate with the Arabs. He is thus a man that Premier Yitzhak Rabin (not to mention Kissinger) must reckon with. Peres almost defeated Rabin for the premiership last April, and is a plausible...
...heads a fragile coalition government, is just as vulnerable to pressures as Sadat. Moreover, Kissinger can no longer work out a deal privately with one Israeli leader, as he could with former Premier Golda Meir. Now he must satisfy a triumvirate consisting of Rabin, Allon and Defense Minister Shimon Peres...
...eroding image abroad have caused some Israelis to question his leadership. If Rabin's fragile coalition majority in the Knesset were to collapse, there are several men who are not only willing but eager to succeed him. One potential future Premier is articulate Defense Minister Shimon Peres. Another is former Defense Minister Moshe Dayan, who was recently cleared by a fact-finding of responsibility for Israel's poor showing at the outset of the October...