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...Jerusalem, baleful questions surrounded the precarious state of the health of Israeli Premier Menachem Begin. Begin, 65, who has a long history of heart trouble, was in Hadassah Hospital suffering from what was officially described as a blood clot in a small artery of his brain. It had cost him possibly the permanent loss of 25% of his vision. Doctors and aides alike insisted that the affliction was under control, with the help of anticoagulant drugs, and that Begin's mental processes remained unimpaired. They said that he was cheerfully reading and continuing to conduct government business from...
...Premier's aides did not attempt to mask their concern that his condition could worsen and conceivably even force his resignation. In a swirl of rumors, Israelis asked themselves if his health might not already be perhaps more impaired than his doctors would admit...
...There is nothing to prevent the Secretary-General from asking countries hostile to Israel to contribute troops," complained a senior aide to the Premier. Others grimly recalled 1967, when Secretary-General U Thant at Egypt's request withdrew U.N. forces from the Sinai, only to see hostilities break out almost immediately thereafter. At week's end, much of the sting was removed from the dispute when the State Department suggested the possibility of new four-cornered negotiations between Israel, Egypt...
...government will be increasingly vulnerable to challenge from the opposition, from discontented Liberals and from restive members of his own Herut Party, like mercurial Defense Minister Ezer Weizman. Recognizing that it is all a healthy Begin can do to control his contentious Cabinet, Israelis wondered how long the ailing Premier could do that...
...evacuated Bedouins could well have nowhere to go at all for some time. The four new proposed industrial settlements have yet to be built, and the government has no plans for temporary housing. Shrugs Benjamin Gur-Arieh, Premier Menachem Begin's adviser on Arab affairs: "They can double up in their tents until the villages are ready. They're used to it." Opposition to the law is gathering force in the Knesset, but critics of the government are more concerned about the Bedouins' inability to appeal than about the terms of compensation. Says Begin's former...