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Sitting next to the wife of Yitzhak Rabin, the Israeli Ambassador to the U.S., Richard Nixon was commenting one night last week on the fact that diplomatic assignments, once so greatly sought after, have now become dangerous in many areas of the world. Indeed they have. The next day, the newly ap pointed U.S. Ambassador to the Sudan, Cleo A. Noel Jr., and the outgoing charge d'affaires, George C. Moore, as well as a Belgian diplomat were murdered by Arab terrorists (see WORLD). Noel thus became the second U.S. ambassador to be killed by terrorists in less than...
Nonconsenting. In addition, Sisco and Israeli Ambassador Yitzhak Rabin have worked out certain "clarifications" of the U.S. role in the negotiations. Washington will be free to propose solutions if deadlocks arise or arrangements falter. Any new U.S. suggestions will be broached privately to Israel, instead of being sprung publicly as Rogers' six points were last fall. "We're happy with the arrangement," says one Israeli diplomat in Washington. "It provides a satisfactory link between two nonconsenting adults...
Although 40 planes over a year's time was mentioned as a schedule, the actual negotiations for delivery will not take place until Israeli Ambassador Yitzhak Rabin returns to Washington this week. Obvious but unmentioned is the U.S. intention to tie the flow of shipments to Israeli cooperation at the negotiating table. If Israel becomes recalcitrant again, the Phantoms may suddenly stop coming...
...additional armaments not so much to bolster the Egyptians as to panic Israel into trying to wheedle additional arms out of the U.S., thereby throwing both the arms balance and the American peace effort out of kilter. Sure enough, in the wake of the treaty, Israeli Ambassador to Washington Yitzhak Rabin last week inquired into the status of an Israeli request for an additional $500 million in economic aid and military supplies. Washington has so far held back on approving the request. With some justification, Jerusalem fears that the U.S. might use aid as a lever to push Israel into...
...move clearly put Israel on the spot. Al Ahram Editor Mohammed Hassanein Heikal wrote in his weekly column from Cairo: "Egypt's diplomacy has stripped the Israeli position of all cover-including the fig leaf." Ambassador Yitzhak Rabin was summoned home from Washington last week in order to explain current U.S. attitudes to the Cabinet...