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...Baath Party called the Sinai agreement "strange and disgraceful," and Assad pointedly refused to receive Egyptian Vice President Husny Mobarak when he appeared to explain the Egyptian view. In Israel, as she made a rare political appearance to vote for ratification at a Labor Party caucus, former Premier Golda Meir said she greeted the second-stage agreement "not with a fanfare but also not with a feeling of mourning...
...most of the past 20 years, Sapir was Israel's Midas, tapping his broad foreign contacts for the billions of dollars needed for arms and industrialization. A behind-the-scenes political broker in Israel's ruling Labor Party, he was instrumental in the rise of Levi Eshkol, Golda Meir and Israel's current Premier, Yitzhak Rabin. A self-proclaimed dove, Sapir favored giving up captured Arab territory in return for an early Middle East peace agreement. After leaving the government last year, he devoted his energies to running the Jewish Agency, which encourages Jews round the world...
...Kilometer 101 talks with Egypt that led to disengagement in the Sinai; the talks figure importantly in Golan's book. Ambassador to the U.S. Simcha Dinitz was a third suspect, since he could have provided some of the Washington tidbits in the book; Dinitz was former Premier Golda Meir's top political assistant and presumably was well briefed on even her private conversations with Kissinger. Rabin has promised to root out the informers, but when TIME Correspondent Marlin Levin asked Golan last week if he expected his sources to be uncovered, the writer replied, "Never...
...alienating his Arab allies. In rebuttal last week, Israelis argued that Rabin, a political novice who heads a fragile coalition government, is just as vulnerable to pressures as Sadat. Moreover, Kissinger can no longer work out a deal privately with one Israeli leader, as he could with former Premier Golda Meir. Now he must satisfy a triumvirate consisting of Rabin, Allon and Defense Minister Shimon Peres...
Rabin's "domestic problem" is that while he has had no big failures as Premier since he replaced Golda Meir last May, he also has had no major successes, and his popularity within Israel is fading...