Premier Yitzhak Rabin today dampened speculation that he might soon visit Washington as part of a massive fence-mending operation that Israel plans in the wake of the failure of Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger’s mediation efforts. In an interview in Yediot Achronot, Rabin indicated that he contemplated no visit in the immediate future. Meetings between U.S. Presidents and Israeli Premiers always involve careful preparations, Rabin said.
Well placed officials told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that a visit by Foreign Minister Yigal Allon is also not on the cards at least for the immediate future. Both in Washington and in Jerusalem a fundamental reassessment of alms and policy has gotten under way and future developments will hinge on the results of these separate deliberations, the JTA was told.
In the Foreign Ministry here a top-level team of officials has been set up by the Minister to study the options, while the inter-departmental “think tank” established by Rabin in advance of the “shuttle” is expected to prepare policy papers in advance of the probable resumption of the Geneva conference. A good deal of pre-conference preparatory work was done at the end of 1973 and early in 1974 when it was thought that the conference opening in December 1973 would be followed closely by working sessions.
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