Word: yitzhak
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While the Israelis were not quite so effusive, Premier Yitzhak Rabin did declare that "I'm not nervous about the basic attitudes of President Carter or Secretary Vance toward Israel." The American diplomat had taken great pains to assure Israelis that the new U.S. Administration was fully committed to their country's survival...
...State Henry Kissinger-has achieved all that it can. (Kissinger expressed similar sentiments several months ago as he wound down his diplomatic duties.) This is sure to bring contradictory responses from Israeli leaders, in part because they have an eye on their May 17 national elections. Thus while Premier Yitzhak Rabin has expressed willingness to return to Geneva or go to "any other place" for genuine peace talks, his archrival, Defense Minister Shimon Peres, still insists that progress toward peace can be achieved by a series of limited Arab-Israeli accords...
...high with boxes-more than 100 cartons in the Situation Room alone-but Ford tried to give the appearance of carrying on business as usual. On his last full day in power, he telephoned Senators, Congressmen, old friends and several foreign leaders: Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing and Soviet Communist Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev...
...founding fathers of Israel, Knesset Member Shlomo Lorincz reminded his parliamentary colleagues, used to joke that when their state became a full-fledged nation, it would even have "Jewish crooks." Well, Lorincz added caustically, referring to the scandals that have rocked Yitzhak Rabin's government, "we are more than a nation. We are a superpower...
...Yitzhak Rubin, 40, a middle-level Defense Ministry official, was sentenced to a two-year prison term for accepting bribes from businessmen dealing with the ministry. Four lesser employees received one-or two-year sentences on the same charges. Three of the bribe-givers were also convicted...