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In its place, Israeli leaders have pro- mised to unveil their own in- itiative. This is likely to be based on a program of encouraging the emergence of "authentic" Palestinian leaders in the oc- cupied territories through municipal elections and the institution of a form of limited autonomy. The autonomy machinery will aim at giving the Palesti- nians a large measure of con- Birmingham Showroom • 646-RUGS Piety Hill Plaza, 1835 S. Woodward (just north of 14 Mile Rood) Ann Arbor Showroom • 973-RUGS 3410 Washtenaw Avenue (just west of Arborland) 1111 1 119 Moshe Arens trol over their day-to-day af- fairs, but it will stop short of granting them total self- government, which would be control over the land. Whether such an initiative is realistic in the wake of the recent diplomatic gains achieved by the PLO — or, in- deed, if it was ever realistic — the man who will bear responsibility for presenting Israel's face to the world is 63-year-old Moshe "Misha" Arens. He lost no time in moving on to the offensive. Last Fri- day, just one day after taking office, he declared that Arab terrorists appeared to be behind last week's crash over Scotland of a PanAm jumbo jet, which took the lives of 258 passengers and crew. He also accused the United States of encouraging ter- rorism by opening a dialogue with the PLO. Arens, a former am- bassador to Washington (1982-1983), is courteous and gentlemanly in a country where politicians are characterized by rambunctiousness. Beneath the gentle exterior, however, Arens takes a hard- line attitude toward the Palestinians in particular and the Middle East conflict in general. He is also a hawk on military matters. He voted against the 1978 Camp David accords because he believed that Israel was paying too high a price for peace with Egypt, and he resigned from the last govern- ment over the decision to cancel the ambitious, expen- sive Lavi jet-fighter project. Born in Lithuania on Dec. 7, 1925, he emigrated to the United States with his fami- ly when he was 14 and lived there for the next nine years. He became active in the Betar youth movement, in- spired by the philosophy of Ze'ev Jabotinsky, the father of the Revisionist Zionist move- ment. In 1948, he emigrated to Palestine to join the Revi- sionist Irgun Zvai Leumi underground movement, which was led by Menachem Begin, who became Prime Minister of Israel in 1977. After the establishment of Israel, he returned to the United States and enrolled at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he graduated with a degree in aeronautical engineering. On returning to Israel, he was closely involved in the development of the Kfir jet. In 1983, he was recalled from his posting to Washington, where he presented Israel's case during the Lebanese War, and was appointed defense minister. He succeeded Ariel Sharon, who resigned in disgrace following recommendations of the Kahan Commission into the Sabra and Shatilla massacre of Palestinian refugees in Beirut by Chris- tian Phalangists. More recently, he was used by Prime Minister Shamir as a secret envoy to Secretary of State George Shultz at the outset of the Palestinian uprising late last year. He is seen as the man most likely to mend Israel's fences with Washington and his im- mediate aim will be to try to convince the United States administration that it erred in opening a dialogue with the PLO. While Arens is Shamir's chosen successor, his quiet manner, sophistication and intellectual approach to Israel's problems make him appear aloof and he enjoys no grass-roots support in the populist Likud Party.