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Since then, the President has increasingly emerged from the shadow of Kissinger. He has held personal well-publicized talks with Soviet Communist Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin. He has markedly improved his grasp of foreign affairs (see interview page 14). As a result, he speaks out more confidently. He has recently been at pains to stress the U.S. commitment to South Korea and suggest the possibility of using tactical nuclear weapons in its defense...
Fahmy's warning reflected Egyptian exasperation at the indecisive results of recent talks in Bonn between Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin (TIME, July 21). Egypt had hoped this latest in a long series of Sinai discussions would produce an agreement under which Israeli troops would withdraw to the eastern edge of the strategic Mitla and Giddi passes. Instead, Rabin asked for further "clarifications" from Cairo...
...basic terms for a Sinai settlement have been worked out." Egyptian officials quickly declared that Sadat had been misquoted, and the offending sentence did not appear in local accounts of the Hearst interview. Kissinger, as he left Washington for a European trip that included talks with Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin, maintained that "we are not anywhere near the point of agreement." Rabin, en route to West Germany on an official visit (see following story), cautioned strongly against speculation. "There are no deadlines, no dramatic events," he said...
Both before and after his Saturday meeting in Bonn with Henry Kissinger, Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin discussed the current state of Middle East negotiations with TIME Diplomatic Editor Jerrold L. Schecter and Reporter David Halevy. Excerpts from the interviews...
...Yitzhak Rabin's comment was uncharacteristically bitter and probably undiplomatic. On the first stop of the first official visit by an Israeli Premier to West Germany, Rabin walked past neatly tended mass graves at the site of the notorious Bergen-Belsen concentration camp near Hannover, where an estimated 30,000 Jews died during the years of Nazi terror. While his German-born wife Leah, who fled the country as a child, looked on, Rabin recited the Kaddish, the traditional Hebrew prayer for the dead. The Premier also laid a wreath of blue and white carnations -the national colors...