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...gets 3% to 4% of its $400 million operating budget from the government, has asked for an additional $15 million subsidy. But Prime Minister Menachem Begin, committed to freer enterprise, so far has been no more forthcoming with El Al than he has been with Anwar Sadat. Says Gad Yaacobi, chairman of the Knesset Economic Committee: "The government will be very reluctant to give El Al this subsidy until it proves it will make every effort to become more efficient...
...with the U.N.'s delay, the nine Common Market countries last week pledged to prosecute terrorists or extradite them for trial. Bonn is seeking an international convention to combat terrorist acts that involve the taking of hostages. Israel has begun taking steps too. Israeli Minister of Transport Gad Yaacobi told the Knesset that he is going to propose a law to bar from Israel's airports all airlines lacking sufficient anti-terrorist security measures. Jerusalem also plans to propose the creation of an international agency to exchange information on skyjacking and to agree on guidelines for the handling...
...Chaim Herzog, Israel's Ambassador-designate to the U.N. Foreign Minister Yigal Allon had been in the U.S. and gone already, as had his predecessor Abba Eban and Itzhak Navon, chairman of the Knesset's committee on foreign affairs and security. Minister of Transport Gad Yaacobi and Minister of Justice Haim Zadok flew in at week's end, while Teddy Kollek, the mayor of Jerusalem, and Supreme Court Justice Haim Conn were packing their bags. Small wonder if Premier Yitzhak Rabin felt lonely in Jerusalem: some days it seemed that there were more Israeli VIPS...
...Like Yaacobi, several dozen other non-Americans have a similar in with the U.S. Secretary of State. They are alumni of Harvard University's six-week summer International Seminar, run by Kissinger for 18 consecutive summers, until he joined the White House staff. Each year he selected about 40 men and women from abroad who had already started their careers and who, he figured, might eventually become leaders in their own countries...
...Yaacobi says that his 1967 notes contain "a very precise plan of what subsequently happened in America's relations with China, Viet Nam, Russia and the Middle East." Tindemans feels that Washington's present difficulties with Europe were anticipated by Kissinger in 1962: "He realized that Europe would want to take an independent stand, but warned that Europe must accept the consequences of its policy...