Word: yitzhak
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Eleven members of the Egyptian Parliament fanned out across the U.S. last April, appearing on local television programs, speaking to businessmen's groups, Governors and mayors. Last week, as Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin was stating the Israeli case in meetings at the White House, a team of six prominent Saudi Arabians completed a two-month swing through such cities as Cedar Rapids, St. Paul, Memphis and Denver. Lebanese Journalist and Spokesman Clovis Maksoud is in the midst of a four-month speaking mission from New York to Texas to California as special envoy of the 20-nation Arab League...
...meeting with President Gerald Ford; both sides considered it a profitable exchange of ideas about the next steps toward peace. In a tacit response to Egypt's peaceful intentions in reopening the canal, Israel announced a unilateral thinning-out of its forces in the Sinai. This week Premier Yitzhak Rabin will fly to Washington for his summit meeting with Ford. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who had been considerably downcast at the failure of his diplomatic shuttle efforts in March, was cheered by the week's events. On the flight from Rome back to Washington...
...Ford and Sadat would find some formula to set back in motion Kissinger's step-by-step talks between Cairo and Jerusalem. Any final decision on such a move would have to wait until next week, however, when Ford returns to Washington and meets Israel's Premier Yitzhak Rabin for another two days of talks. Whatever the outcome of Ford's delicate negotiations, two things are clear...
...Geneva peace talks be reconvened. To ease Arab apprehensions in advance of the meeting, Ford said last week that he would "in effect rule out" the use of military force in the event of another Arab oil embargo. The President will meet later in June with Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin in Washington...
Normally, such a pro-Palestinian move would anger Israel, but Jerusalem largely ignored it. Premier Yitzhak Rabin's government was relieved that Kissinger and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko had agreed at their Vienna meeting to delay any reconvening of the Geneva talks until autumn. One Foreign Ministry spokesman said: "This will relieve the pressure and allow a politically useful and militarily quiet summer...