Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger, who arrived here today for the new round of peace talks between Israel and Syria, took his wife Nancy, to meet Premier Golda Meir who will be celebrating her 76th birthday tomorrow. Mrs. Meir, receiving the couple at her residence, congratulated them and gave Nancy a wedding gift of two ancient glass bottles, one for perfume and the other for tears.
The Premier explained that according to ancient custom, every wife must have a bottle to collect her tears of sorrow whenever her husband was away–a seemingly appropriate gift in view of Nancy Kissinger’s husband. Mrs. Kissinger spent the afternoon sightseeing in Jerusalem while her husband continued discussions of Israeli and Syrian disengagement on the Golan Heights.
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