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By United Press International
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Mrs. Meir named premier
JERUSALEM Mrs. Golda Meir was named premier designate of Israel yesterday quickly began choosing her coalition government.
The grand old lady of Israeli politics reached the top in the
nation's power structure when President Zalman Shazer asked her to form a new government.
Mrs. Meir, 70, first woman premier of Israel, replaced Levi Eshkol, who died of a heart attack.
Red China warns against possible Soviet invasion
HONG KONG - Radio Peking yesterday warned the Soviet Union that any attempt to invade Communist China would bring "fatal destruction." It said the Russians "already owe the Chinese people blood debts" which must be repaid.
The warning came as Red China delivered a sternly-worded note to Soviet authorities about damages inflicted on the Chinese embassy in Moscow by demonstrators.
The protest demonstrations in Moscow and in Peking and other cities were touched off by a clash between Soviet and Chinese border troops on a disputed island in the Ussuri River between northeast China and Soviet Siberia.
The Peking note contended Soviet officials had organized the "despicable" massive demonstrations by Russians
Israel, Egypt conflict in series of Suez duels
Israeli and Egyptian artillery thundered across the Suez Canal last night in a series of heavy duels from Port Said in the south to El Qantara in the north. Israel said Egypt has spurned a United Nations ceasefire.
The firing appeared to be at least as heavy as the major battles which took place Saturday and Sunday and which left much of Egypt's oil storage facilities in flaming ruins. Each side was making fiery statements of "revenge" and threats to reply in kind.
The across-the-canal battle began with what the Israelis said was Egyptian sniping. It built up during the day into exchanges of machinegun and automatic weapon fire,
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What changes, if any, she had in mind for the government were not revealed, although political sources doubted she would remove any member of the current cabinet.
against the embassy in Moscow last week. The demonstrators, who numbered in the tens of thousands, smashed windows and hurled ink bottles at the building.
A former schoolteacher in the United States, Mrs. Meir was expected to present her cabinet to parliament Thursday.
Mrs. Meir won the premiership with a large majority of support from Israel's 14 political factions. Only three refused to back her despite heavy pressure by campaigners for Defense Minister Moshe Dayan, the popular hero of the 1967 war.
The coalition will remain in office only until the country's parliamentary elections this fall.
Mrs. Meir came to Palestine in
Viet Cong lose heavily in battles near Saigon
SAIGON Communist soldiers expected to attack Saigon next week slammed headlong into two U.S. camps on approaches to the capital today. They were beaten back and left 104 bodies on the battlefield.
The two battles near Phu Khuong, 56 miles northwest of Saigon, coincided with U.S. intelligence reports that the 40,000 guerrillas threatening Saigon would hit the city next week.
Pushing into the 16th day of their nationwide offensive, the Reds shelled the ancient imperial capital at Hue for the first time in the drive, killing two children and wounding five persons, Allied headquarters said.
On the main infiltration corridor from Cambodia to Saigon, the guerrillas slammed into the two U.S. camps near Phu Khuong, first with fierce shellings and then with heavy ground attacks. The Americans called in divebombers and gunships to help fight off the assaults.
At Landing Zone Grant, a U.S.
1st Air Cavalry Division outpost,
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more than 500 guerrillas swarmed out of the jungle night against the barbed wire, the second such attack in three days.
In two hours of heavy battle, at close range, the American defenders beat back the attack, killing 63 Communists while losing five men dead and 22 wounded themselves.
Those exploits have earned her the jest that she is "the only real man in the Israeli cabinet."
Since then she has earned a reputation for physical bravery as well as political acumen.
stayed on her feet to make sure then-Premier David ben-Gurion was safely on the floor, then threw herself down as the grenade went off, wounding her in the leg.
1921 and stayed on to work the land and help her people move toward nationhood 20 years ago.
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At a U.S. 25th Division camp nearby, the guerrillas launched an almost identical attack. With helicopter gunships, warplanes and artillery strikes, the attack was broken. The bodies of 38 North Vietnamese soldiers littered the field at dawn. There were no U.S. losses. It was the second Landing Grant Zone attack in three days.
Her political accomplishments range from first Israeli ambassador to the Soviet Union (1948-49) to foreign minister (1956-66).
Mrs. Meir demonstrated her courage by crossing through Arab lines in a secret peace effort in 1948, and again in 1957 when terrorists lobbed a grenade into the Israeli parliament.
In, that incident, Mrs. Meir
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