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    "ocrText": "THE PRESIDENT HAS SEEN\nREVIEW OF THURS AM PAPERS\nDIGEST OF RECENT COMMENT\nAPRIL 11, 1974\nMIDEAST\nCBS AM's Kalb said HAK was clearly not briefed on Israeli\nsituation when he went before Foreign Relations, but afterwards\nhe chose to take the high ground and was optimistic. On film,\nHAK said Israel is aware disengagement is important for M-E\npeace, and he expects to continue the pace in upcoming talks.\nState also said Meir's resignation would affect negotiations,\nreported Kalb. Tho assumption is Meir would head caretaker\ngovt and talks will proceed as planned, that overlooks interrelated\naspects of politics and diplomacy. If Syria makes hard demands\nre: w/drawal, caretaker govt might not be strong enough to make\na response. There's also question of Soviet participation in\nnegotiations and what line USSR will take, but that may become\nclear when HAK-Gromyko meet, concluded Kalb\nSun's\nMills suggests resignation \"lends a certain lameduck quality\" to\nproposal Israelis gave HAK.\nNoting HAK intended to let Syrians \"mull over 11 Israeli\nproposal and \"then in about 10 days fly to Damascus and Jerusalem\nto try to narrow the differences, 11 Carter of NY News says Meir\ngovt collapse \"could put the timetable back indefinitely. 11 Noting\n\"Israelis political crisis couldn't have blown up at a worse time, \"\ncoinciding w/ Syrian talks w/ HAK, Sun says the country \"needs\na govt sufficiently confident of broad support to explore such avenues\nto peace as may exist. Both Meir and Dayan have seen this need, 11\nand thus, \"world would be better off if both of them continued to hold\nresponsible positions -- if not their present positions -- in coming\nmonths.\n11\nMonitor is Ofner says Meir resignation marks the end of an era,\nthe era of strong gov't in Israel.\nMonitor regrets Meir's departure\nbut it's \"part of a painful but necessary and constructive process\ngoing on in Israel about the nature of Israel and its future. 11 M-E\nwar was a watershed in Israeli thinking and Israel should not now\nbe rushed thru the rethinking of whether peace w/ Arabs might not\nbring more rather than less security."
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