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Dayan ready
to compromise
on West Bank
by David Landau
JERUSALEM (JTA)—Foreign
Minister Moshe Dayan told the
Knesset Monday that Israel is
prepared to discuss a territorial
compromise on the West Bank if
one is proposed and that it would
be prepared to discuss the question
of sovereignty for that territory
after five years of self-rule.
Opening the foreign policy
debate with a report on his meeting
at Leeds Castle, England last week
with Egyptian Foreign Minister
Mohammed Kaamel and U.S.
Secretary of State Cyrus Vance,
Dayan said he offered his
proposals to Vance on his own
authority. He noted that the
Cabinet endorsed them Sunday
and authorized him to present this
position to the Knesset.
Dayan has expressed these ideas
before b"* never formally and with
the full authority of the
government. The position he
stated, especially the willingness to
consider, the sovereignty issue,
represented a considerable
softening of the position Israel
took in its reply to the American
questions on the future of the West
Bank and Gaza Strip last month.
At that time, the Cabinet would
say only that Israel would review
its relations with the parties after
five years of self-rule on the West
Bank and Gaza.
Dayan explained that the
Cabinet’s earlier negative reply
was predicated on the fact that
“our peace plan had not even been
put on the table for discussion.
This was not the case following the
Leeds Castle conference when
both the Israeli and Egyptian plans
were discussed," he said. He told
the Knesset that “several points of
contact” between the Israeli and
Egyptian plans emerged at the
talks in Engl»p4. ’*#1, the
differences were still “immeasur
ably greater” than the aresft of
agreement. The Cabinet’s
endorsement of Dayan’s proposals
U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohammed Ibrahim Kamel, and Moshe
Dayan, Israeli Foreign Minister, in a light moment at the Middle East peace talks in Leeds Castle, England.
seemed to reflect the government’s
desire to project as moderate an
image as possible.
However. Premier Mcnadwm
Begin, appearing in a previously
taped interview on the CBS-TV
“Face the Nation” program
Sunday, did not respond directly
when asked about the possibility of
an Israeli compromise on the West
Bank. He insisted that his own
ipnifaptaCrPcapoeal was a “real”
compromise and said he saw no
refttoh to OTTer any compromise
now because the Egyptians were
not amenable to one.
Begin said Dayan had
specifically asked the Egyptians at
the Leeds Castle meeting whether
they believed a compromise on the
West Bank and Gaza Strip was
practical and, according to Begin,
“Their reply was twice, of course
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Grandmother started it
My son the author-doctor
Staff Photo: Lim (irldhart
Dr. Neil Shulman: “My whole thrust in life is variety.”
by Lisa Redaction
Dr. Neil Shulman’s grand
mother was special to him.
She was forever trying to give
him phone numbers of girls
she happened to meet in buses,
taxis, laundromats or Jewish
delicatessens.
Because of this, and many other
attributes that made his
grandmother unique. Dr.
Shulman decided to sit down and
write a book about her.
“My grandmother was such an
interesting character. You
wouldn't believe some of the things
she did I wanted to develop her
character in a book. I thought
maybe she could become a
national symbol or something,”
Dr. Shulman said, his eyes
crinkling with laughter as we
talked.
In Dr. Shulman’s fourth year of
medical school at Emory, he began
writing. But as the chapters of the
book about his grandmother
progressed, he began writing more
and more about the trials and
tribulations of becoming a doctor.
When he finished, the book was
entitled “Finally...I’m a Doctor."
Being both a doctor and an
author, it would seem Dr.
Shulman would have a lot to talk
about while he sat lunching on an
egg sandwich at a local
luncheonette. But what Dr.
Shulman really wanted to talk
about was his grandmother.
“You wouldn’t believe my
grandmother. She’d meet these
strange girls everywhere
imaginable. Then she’d ask them
for their dress size, how old they
were and what their father did for a
living. When they’d answer she’d
say that she had a ‘neat' grandson
who washes and brushes his teeth
every day. Her best pickup places
were laundromats, taxis, buses and
kosher delis. Every week, she’d
bring me a new list of girls’
numbers. Can you imagine calling
up a girl and saying that your
grandmother met her on a bus and
gave you the number?” Dr.
Shulman said, laughing.
If that didn’t work, and
according to Dr. Shulman it never
did, his grandmother used other
tactics.
“Once she even flew a girl in
from Texas. My grandmother was
persistent that everyone should get
married off and she even offered a
certain amount of money if we did.
Of course I’m still not married," he
said.
“My grandmother has gotten
together more than 52 couples
around the country with a very low
divorce rate. She’ll find someone
for everyone. She'll find a fat
person for a fat person and a thin
person for a thin person,” he said
fondly, obviously remembering all
the peoplfc she had gotten together.
And when her grandson, Neil
Shulman, made the decision to go
to medical school, she was proud.
During his years of hard work she
would write letters filled with
encouragement and “instruc
tions."
When Dr. Shulman graduated
from medical school, his
grandmother attended in style.
"She lived in Washington, D.C.
which is where I’m from. 1 was in
Atlanta, so she flew down in a
plane for the first time in her life.
She was 80-years-old. She was so
proud She loved it that I was a
doctor. A person's profession was
so important to her. 1 have an
uncle who owns a toy store but he
also holds a degree in engineering.
She would always introduce him as
an engineer even though he was in
the toy business,” he said.
Dr. Shulman also recalls the
eulogy his grandmother wrote for
her own funeral.
“She wrote it before she died and
mentioned everything she had
See Author-Doctor, Page 21.
