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Rabin does not follow former Defense Minister Moshe Dayan's post-1967 belief that Israeli military superiority alone will win peace with the Arabs. Nor does he agree with former Prime Minister Golda Meir that "there are no Palestinians...
Elsewhere, leaders hardly stayed in place long enough to be in the running as Men of the Year. Governments changed with what seemed a manic rapidity. Israel's Golda Meir left office, replaced by Yitzhak Rabin. Japan's Kakuei Tanaka resigned amid scandal, with Takeo Miki succeeding him. Western Europe seemed beset by Fraktionspolitik. Great Britain deposed Edward Heath and reinstated Harold Wilson. France's Georges Pompidou died in April and was replaced by the progressive conservative Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. West Germany's Willy Brandt resigned in the shadow...
Rabin has been able to establish his authority as Premier in large part because he is an expert in two areas of crucial concern: security and foreign affairs. "When Kissinger comes here," says one of Rabin's political advisers, "they get right to the heart of the matter. Golda used to bring a big team with her, and they talked for hours on end. With Rabin, the negotiating team is small, and they get right down to business. Rabin starts with the here and now, not with 'history. Their meetings are invariably shorter...
ISRAEL. We have heard some voices there after the [October] war that speak of the Palestinian people for the first time-something to be noted in comparison with [former Premier] Golda Meir's words after 1967 that there was no such entity as Palestinian people. But they also say that the Palestinians should find their future under the flag of King Hussein, as if they could determine our fate...
Rockefeller, on the other hand, would probably be the last to admit that he is too old to run. Refusing to tell reporters last week whether he intended to make another try for the presidency, he reminded them of a couple of very elder statesmen. "Did you ever know Golda Meir?" he asked. "Konrad Adenauer? I knew them well. Great people...