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...Israel, where former Ambassador to the U.S. Yitzhak Rabin was chosen as Premier-designate to succeed Golda Meir, officials spoke apprehensively of what they referred to as Washington's "loving honeymoon with the Arabs." Said one: "What the Americans are doing is not cutting into our flesh; it's just scratching our skin a bit. It has not cost us anything so far. When it does, then we will start screaming." The screaming would presumably start if the U.S. began supplying Egypt with weapons now that Cairo has said it would no longer wholly depend on the Soviet...
...generally amicable vote, the party's central committee chose Labor Minister Yitzhak Rabin, 52, over Information Minister Shimon Peres, 51, to become Israel's fifth Premier. Rabin will have six weeks at most to put together a coalition government to succeed the present caretaker Cabinet of Premier Golda Meir. If he fails-as some believe he will-new elections will likely be called...
...into account not only Cairo's increasingly independent role, but also the continuing unsettled political situation in Israel. Even while they watched the Golan Heights last week and alerted reservists to defend it, Israel's political leaders were busy trying to agree on a successor to Premier Golda Meir, who resigned two weeks ago. Labor Party leaders had a choice of selecting someone else, if the right supporting coalition could be found, or of asking Golda to continue with a caretaker government. In either case, the job would be only temporary since it would terminate in national elections...
...Embassy Kibbutz. During the 1948 Middle East war, she raised millions in the U.S. for Israeli weapons purchases. That year she was also named Israel's first minister to Moscow. Golda ran her embassy like a kibbutz, taking her turn at washing dishes. For a decade she was Foreign Minister under Ben-Gurion, with whom she often fought, and then under her friend Levi Eshkol. Ben-Gurion, despite their arguments, once complimented her as "the only man in the Cabinet...
...Premier Golda Meir, in her speech of resignation to the Knesset, warned the government of Lebanon that "we regard it and its people who collaborated with the terrorists as responsible for these murders." After Israel's retaliatory raids...