The Israeli Embassy honored William Safire, the newly retired New York Times columnist. Among the luminaries attending the dinner Wednesday night were Paul Wolfowitz, the deputy defense secretary; Douglas Feith, an undersecretary of defense; neoconservative icon Richard Perle; Clinton administration defense secretary, William Cohen; and media stars Wolf Blitzer, George Stephanopoulos and Bob Schieffer.
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