Meir-Nixon Meeting Slated March 1

JERUSALEM (JTA)—Pre- nouncement caught the pub- Meir's visit may be intended
to head off possible American
mier Golda Meir will go to lie by surprise.
the United States March 1 The announcement said. presure on Israel for conces-
for discussions with presi- that Mrs. Meir would meet sions to get Middle East
dent Nixon and other Ameri- with U.S. Secretary of State peace initiative during the
can officials, the government William P. Rogers and other current year.
According to Sundays
announced.
officials and also would ad-
The announcement was dress a national Israel Bond nouncement, Mrs. Meir will
made simultaneously here conference in Miami and a be accompanied to Wash-
and in Washington and was major United Jewish Appeal ington by her political ad-
viser, Simha Dinitz, who is
released to the press here event In New York.
at the end of Sundays cabinet
Her meeting with the Presi- Israel's ambassador-desig-
meeting. Mrs. Meir met pre- dent will take place before nate to the U.S. but will be
viously with Nixon in Wash- the expected visits in Wash- traveling in his capacity as
.ington In December 1971 and ington of King Hussein of director general of the prime
September 1970.
Jordan and Leonid Brezhnev, minister's office.
The president ambassador,
Another Nixon-Meir meet- secretary general of the So-
ing had been expected since viet Communist Party. It will Itzhak Rabin, who was to
end
his American tour of
Mr. Nixon's re-election last follow recent visits in Wash-
November, but Sunday's an- ington by Defense Minister duty this month, has been
Moshe Dayna and Deputy asked to remain in Washing-
Premier Yigal Allon, both ton until March so he can be
of whom met with Rogers on hand for the premier's
t^
land other top officials but visit.
did not see the President.
Sources here said that Mrs. 12 — Friday, Jan. 12, 1973

U.S. Regrets
Sadat View on
Peace Initiative

Electoral Reform to Bolster Major Parties Is Approved

JERUSALEM (JTA) — An
electoral reform measure
that will strengthen Israel's
major parties at the expense
of the smaller ones was ap-
proved by the Knesset after
a stormy all-night session
niarked by mutual recrim-
inations and shouted insults
from the floor.
The chamber gave a sub-
stantial margin to a bill spon-
sored by the Alignment and
Gahal, the . two largest par-
ties, that would convert sur-
plus votes into additional
Knesset seats for the largest
parties.

The new bill would award Knesset Speaker Israel Yesh-
the extra seats to the party ayahu to ram through the
polling the largest total num- Alignment-Gahal bill.
ber of votes. Under the pres-
ent system, the extra seats
go to the party with the
largest surplus vote.
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WASHINGTON ( J T A) —
State Department spokesman
Charles Bray said Thursday
that reported complaints by
President Anwar Sadat of
Egypt about the failure of
U.S. efforts to effect a peace
settlement in the Middle
East were "a matter of re-

gret."
Bray qualified his remark

by indicating that the U.S.
special interests section in
Cairo has not yet confirmed
the content of Sadat's re-
marks published in the Beirut
newspaper Al Bairaq.

According to the newspa-
per. Sadat told its publisher,

Milhem Karam, who was in
Cairo. that he has given up
all hope in U.S. efforts to

bring about a peacef:-11 settle-
ment in the Middle East.

Sadat was said to have re-
called his contacts with
Washington in 1971 on the
problem of Arab-Israeli
peace and declared, "It was :
a test of peace and Washing-
ton flunked the test."
The Beirut newspaper also
reported that Sadat chastized
other Arab governments for
their failure to arrive at a
joint plan to pressure the
U.S. to revise its policy of
supporting Israel.
Bray noted that "both the
President and the secretary
of state" continue to "give
priority to the Middle East
and its problems and their
intention to be active in at-
tempts to get a negotiating
process started."

Magazine Views
Israel in French

MONTREAL (JTA) — A
new monthly magazine pub-

lished by the Canada-Israel
Committee will attempt to
achiese "a spiritual rap-
prochement" between t h e
people of Quebec and Israel

by presenting "the varied as-
pects of the cultural, artistic.
economic and social life of
Israel across impressions
gathered by Quebecers who
visited Israel," according to

o

an editorial in the maga-
zine's first issue dated De-
cember, 1972.
.
The French-language publi-
cation, "Regards sur Israel,
(Views on Israel)", whose
editor - in - chief is Michael
Solomon, Montreal corres-
pondent of the Jewish Tele-
graphic Agency, claims to be
the first magazine in North
America in which prominent
non-Jewish French Canadian
poets and writers deal favor-
ably with Israel.

"It is unbecoming when
one eats in the presence of a
guest without inviting him to
join."—Talmud.

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