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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 See Dayan, Page 21. 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.