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...interview to a high art. "She has a relaxed, easy manner," reports NBC News Vice President Don Meaney, who used to be in charge of Today. "She doesn't grill her subjects, therefore she elicits more information and keeps the audience on her side." Adds Israeli Ambassador Simcha Dinitz, who has been interviewed by her several times and is a personal friend: "She always asks the questions most Americans want to know, not just the questions on the minds of the professionals. And she doesn't allow you to get away with a flat statement if there...
...around the chamber and invited "any of you and preferably all of you" to consult informally with him about the situation in the Middle East. Perhaps oversensitively, the Israeli government decided that Scranton's remark implied formal U.S. acceptance of the Palestine Liberation Organization, and it ordered Ambassador Simcha Dinitz to protest to Kissinger. The Secretary of State, embarrassed about Scranton's friendliness, described the ambassador's impromptu invitation as "an unfortunate formulation...
Leaks about Negotiations: "Ambassador [Simcha] Dinitz delicately commented that many leaks were apparently coming from the American delegation. Kissinger went wild. 'You blame the Americans?' he asked incredulously. The journalists who accompanied him, he said, knew nothing except what he told them. And he only told them what served the negotiations...
...waking hour conferring with two teams of Israeli officials, determining just what the U.S. would give in money, arms and political guarantees in exchange for Israeli concessions to Egypt. One team talked about money. Discussing political angles down the hall was another team that included Israeli Ambassador to Washington Simcha Dinitz and Mordechai Gazit, the top civil servant in Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's office. An unflappable, subtle and cautious man with a pro nounced aversion to ambiguity, Gazit has been called by Henry Kissinger, not altogether kindly, "Mr. Dot-the-I's-and-Cross-the-Ts." Having...
...move "disturbing" and "extremely unfortunate." Israelis insisted that the Egyptian threat was an empty bluff by Cairo to increase Washington's pressure on Israel. In any case, Rabin told the Knesset, "Israel is not a country that makes a practice of accepting dictates." Rabin sent Israeli Ambassador Simcha Dinitz back to Washington to confer again with Kissinger on the two principal points still outstanding in any Sinai agreement: the extent of the Israeli withdrawal and the details of an electronic early-warning system around the passes. Kissinger is trying to bring the two sides to a point where there...