The White House and State Department characterized as “speculative” a report from Jerusalem that Presidential advisor Henry Kissinger has asked Israel to come up with a compromise proposal for a Mideast settlement after the elections. The report, which appeared last Wednesday in the Washington Star, said that Kissinger summoned Israel Ambassador Yitzhak Rabin to tell him that after the elections it would be wise for Israel to have a compromise proposal. Israeli sources here indicated that no suggestions have been made by US officials either to Rabin or to Foreign Minister Abba Eban when the latter was in New York in Sept. to attend the UN General Assembly. The sources said, however, that the matter of what may happen in the Mideast after the US elections has been a topic of discussion in the Israeli press for some time.
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