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Begin did not. He meant the French-built Tammuz 1 nuclear reactor at El-Tuwaitha, 10½ miles southwest of Baghdad. Begin straightway launched into his real reason for calling the meeting: to ponder what Israel should do in the event that the attack taking place 515 miles away should fail. Half an hour later, after several options had been considered, a telephone call interrupted the Cabinet meeting. It was Israeli Defense Force Chief of Staff, Lieut. General Rafael Eitan. He tersely informed Begin that the attack had been a total success. For a further 70 minutes, the Cabinet considered...
Begin himself obviously felt he had to go further in his accusations against Iraq. On Wednesday, after his government complained that the temporary U.S. suspension of the latest F-16 shipment was "unjust," Begin made a new claim about the Tammuz reactor. He declared that some 132 ft. beneath the demolished reactor there was a secret installation, undiscovered by international inspectors, where the Iraqis intended to produce their bombs. This too, he said, had been destroyed. The next day, Begin altered the depth of the hiding place...
Despite Begin's outlandish utterances, there was a perceptible relaxation by week's end of the fear that the Tammuz raid might set off some new and shocking chain reaction in the Middle East. Egyptian President Sadat had declared that he would remain faithful to the Camp David peace process despite Israel's "intolerable" act. Said Sadat: "We started [the peace movement] and we're not ready at all to give it up." The foreign ministers of the 21-member Arab League issued a tough but predictable resolution condemning the attack, calling for a halt to all U.S. assistance...
Fastest Wit. The author is Hungarian-born Shabtai Teveth, 45, a leading Israeli journalist and writer (The Tanks of Tammuz), who had nine lengthy interviews with Dayan. Teveth portrays an earthy, sometimes unpredictable man -and the fastest wit in the Middle East. Stopped on one occasion by a military policeman for driving 75 m.p.h. when the military speed limit was 44 m.p.h., Dayan said with a wry smile: "I have only one eye. What do you want me to watch-the speedometer or the road...
...Egypt, the corn god Osiris was plucked from the Nile early this morning. In Babylon, Tammuz was retrieved from the sea. In the Perilous Chapel, Parsifal located the Grail and thus restored the Fisher King's fertility. It could mean only one thing...