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...Pershing, which has a maximum range of 460 miles, was originally designed for a nuclear warhead. A newer Pershing II, which will be available in about three years, will carry a conventional warhead with greater accuracy. It is the Pershing II that Israel is after. Defense Minister Shimon Peres, arriving in Washington last week with a shopping list for $2.3 billion in aid and weapons this year, said that Israel views the Pershing as a deterrent, since it can reach such Arab cities as Damascus, Cairo and Amman with devastating force. As Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin put it last week...
...million for Egypt and $250 million for Syria and Jordan in aid, plus approval of a $350 million air defense system for Jordan, most of which involves 14 batteries of Hawk surface-to-air missiles. The largest item is up to $2.2 billion for Israel. As Defense Minister Shimon Peres prepared to fly to Washington this week to complete negotiations, one of his aides joked that the shopping list would include "everything that begins with the letter a-a tank, a missile, a plane...
...Israelis hoped to counter the propaganda advantages that Sadat gained by reopening the canal. They took out from the limited-forces zone half the 7,000 men and 30 tanks allowed under the disengagement agreement, and withdrew artillery and missiles from canal range. To dramatize the move, Defense Minister Shimon Peres last week took foreign newsmen on a tour of the desert, where they observed the withdrawal of one sandchurning platoon of ten tanks...
...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...
...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...