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...bipartisan slaps at the White House reflect a newly independent and increasingly sour, belligerent mood hi Congress as well as Ford's own ineptness. Carelessly, he had not consulted the Republican leadership nor had he lobbied old colleagues for his vetoes. "If the President expects to have his vetoes sustained, he has to make a definite case for them," said House G.O.P. Leader John Rhodes. From the other side of the aisle, Majority Leader Tip O'Neill was more acid: "Since the day he commuted Nixon, he hasn't done anything right...
...while it was Hoover's fiefdom. At the end of the day, Edwards declared that the COINTELPRO episode showed the need for "much stricter oversight of the FBI." Edwards feels that Congress is ready to take on the job, one made politically easier because extremist activity has abated hi recent years. Indeed, the General Accounting Office-Congress's monitoring agency-is already planning to review the domestic spying operations...
...death crisis-perhaps the most severe in its brief 26-year history. The Israelis watched with sullen dismay when Arab leaders at the Rabat summit recognized the P.L.O. as the sole official representative of Palestinians everywhere, including those in the Israeli-occupied Gaza and West Bank. They listened hi cold fury as Yasser Arafat at the United Nations (TIME, Nov. 25) purportedly offered them an "olive branch" -but budged n6t an inch from his position that Israel must be replaced by a secular Palestinian state for both Arabs and Jews. The Bet She'an raid chillingly reinforced the conviction...
From the start, Rabin had tried to widen his political base hi the Knesset. By the end of October, he was able to win over the National Religious Party -without compromising any of the principles of the government platform that the Religious Party had rejected last spring. This gave Rabin a somewhat more comfortable margin of eight seats in the Knesset and strengthened him enough to announce the stern measures of the economic "shock treatment" by which he hopes to resuscitate the Israeli economy (TIME, Nov. 25). Whether it also strengthened him sufficiently to be able to make any significant...
After Israeli independence, Rabin vowed that he would remain hi the army to ensure that the country would never again have to fight from such a position of weakness. He gained international fame as the brilliant and victorious chief of staff during the Six-Day War. He retired from the army with the rank of lieutenant general in 1968, when he was appointed Ambassador...