Joseph J. Sisco, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, arrived at Lydda Airport this evening on a commercial flight from Washington accompanied by Alfred R. Atherton, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the region. Sisco made no statement at the airport where he was met by U.S. Ambassador Walworth Barbour and Israel’s Ambassador to the U.S., Yitzhak Rabin. Mordechai Gazit, deputy director general of the Israel Foreign Ministry was also present. Sisco is expected to be in Israel for about a week. He will stay at the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv. Sources here said he might be bringing a message from President Nixon to Premier Golda Meir.
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