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...Syrian President Hafez Assad and two talks with Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat, along with a cover story on the P.L.O. In these and other articles we told the Arab side of the tragic story. This week our cover focuses on embattled Israel. We present an interview with Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin, an account of the arms lineup stocked by both sides since the October war and the grim prospects for another conflict...
...withdrawal by the Israelis of only four or five kilometers on the Golan Heights, to permit a widening of the U.N. buffer zone. Such a modest gesture, high U.S. officials believe, could be the Confucian first step that could lead to the necessary 10,000 miles of negotiation. For Yitzhak Rabin, the challenge will be to compromise, to conciliate, perhaps even to try to deal with his people's ultimate enemies, to decide whether to renounce the "fortress risk" in favor of the political risk. It may be the hardest decision that an Israeli Premier has ever been asked...
...that there is no hope of compromise with the fedayeen groups. At the U.N., a spokesman for the P.L.O. -whose ranks include the group that made the raid on Bet She'an-asserted that his organization did not "feel any embarrassment" for the attack. Israel's Premier, Yitzhak Rabin, stated his government's position succinctly (see box) when he told TIME last week, "We will never negotiate with the P.L.O...
...tears of war, Israelis, to reverse Churchill's famous aphorism, were asked last week to sweat in the service of their nation. Faced with declining foreign reserves and the prospect of mass unemployment once the country can no longer pay for raw materials to feed its factories, Premier Yitzhak Rabin's government imposed the stiffest austerity program that Israel, or almost any other nation, has ever seen...
...opinion of most Israeli economists, the government should have acted much sooner than it did. Yitzhak Taub, chairman of the Israeli Securities Authority argued that the best time for austerity would have been right after the October war ended. Now, he says, "distortions had to be corrected. Because of our subsidies we were selling sugar at such a low price that the value of sugar in candies exported to England was worth more than the price of the candy...