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Dynamic and eloquent, Peres seems well suited for the job. In the last Cabinet of Premier Golda Meir, he served as Transport Minister. Before that, Peres had been director general in the Defense Ministry, as a protégé of Premier David Ben-Gurion, then became Deputy Minister of Defense to Dayan...
ISRAEL. While President Nixon was visiting Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Syria, no one was following his progress more anxiously than Premier Yitzhak Rabin and the other members of Israel's new government. From the moment he was due to arrive at Ben-Gurion International Airport on Sunday afternoon, Nixon had the job of persuading the Israelis that he had not sold them out to buy favor with the Arabs...
...Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, the heavy iron gates were trampled down by a crying, shouting mob. The homecoming Israelis who debarked from the DC-6 chartered by the International Red Cross were literally passed hand over hand above the crowd to joyous relatives. Attending dignitaries, led by retiring Premier Golda Meir and her successor Yitzhak Rabin, had to scramble for their safety as well as their dignity. At Damascus International Airport, meanwhile, 10,000 delirious people, ignoring streams of water played on them from fire-engine hoses, broke through cordons of paratroopers who attempted futilely to hold them back...
...forces to operate across the buffer zones. Instead, he substituted a secret protocol to the effect that Washington will not oppose Israeli retaliation in the event of future raids. The Israelis accepted this. Armed with their affirmative response, he once more sped back down the Judean hills to Ben Gurion Airport and made the 126-mile flight back to Damascus to wrap up the agreement. "We've got it," he was finally able to cable Washington. In a follow-up telephone call, Kissinger and his White House liaison, Brig. General Brent Scowcroft, discussed obliquely which end of the line would...
...thing, it had taken several hours for the Israelis to round up the prisoners to be released, since they were being held in ten different jails. There was also a problem in trying to get a United Nations plane from Cairo that would ferry the prisoners from Ben-Gurion Airport to Damascus. Compounding the confusion was the fedayeen's complicated plan for effecting the release of the prisoners they sought. The prisoners and half the hostages were to be flown to Damascus. There, a code word (Al Aqsa, from the famous mosque of Jerusalem) would be given to the French...