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...Israeli Premier Menachem Begin was prepared to take that chance. He opposed the sale of modern American weaponry to the Saudis, but he was even more concerned that a package deal would set a pattern for equating U.S. aid to Israel with similar aid to Arab countries. "This would tend to weaken our special relationship," said one Israeli official, "and strengthen Arab relations with America, and that is not in Israel's interest." Dayan stopped short of saying publicly that Israel would rather give up the planes it stood to gain than see the whole package go through...
...held a rally and declared the founding of a new Jewish settlement on the West Bank at Karnei Shomron. The settlement had actually been started in January, but the rally was the Gush Emunim's way of proclaiming that settlement is continuing on the West Bank. Significantly, the Premier's office made no protest against the announcement of the new−and provocative−settlement...
...government of Premier Menachem Begin has argued that any F-15s sold to Saudi Arabia would inevitably be used against Israel in the event of war. The Saudis have assured Washington that this is not true−and there is good reason to believe them. Ground maintenance for the F-15s would be handled mostly by American technicians. Thus it would be very difficult to transfer the F-15s to other Arab states. The Saudis also insist they have no intention of basing the planes at their Tabuk airbase, which is only 125 miles from the Israeli port of Eilat...
...letter to Aldo Moro, published in Milan's daily Il Giorno. It capped a series of urgent appeals last week from U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim and other prominent figures to Moro's Red Brigades kidnapers to release unharmed the missing Christian Democratic leader and former Italian Premier. But as the agonizing human tragedy entered its seventh week, only Moro's captors knew for sure whether he was alive or dead, and they gave no hints as to what they might do next...
...evil past and a skittish future gusted around together. Israeli Premier Menachem Begin was due in the U.S. to raise money. What he needed more than that was moral capital to replace what his government has lost in recent months among American Jews and gentiles alike. Television's Holocaust may have done something to restore that fund of good will toward Israel. The past, Israel's raison d'être and validation, the pedigree of its suffering, came crowding back in the series' deadly lists: Kristallnacht, Eichmann, Himmler, Babi Yar, Sobibor, Theresienstadt, Auschwitz-or, rather, television...