Mr. Barak's cabinet secretary, Yitzhak Herzog, said later that Rabbi Melchior was not speaking officially and was not fully apprised of details of the American proposal.
Yesterday, after several days of doubt over whether he was speaking officially or merely giving his personal reaction, Mr Danoch's remarks were fully backed up by the Israeli foreign ministry, according to a report in the entertainment newspaper Variety.
Daniel's father did hear from a man who was not speaking officially for the NRA -- although I strongly suspect that he has donated to them, has voted for their approved candidates, and loudly supports everything that they stand for.
"Speaking officially I deny that an abacus can keep up with the calculating machine, but personally I wouldn't go anywhere near a test between the two," he said.
Speaking officially in his role as president, Mr. Holbrooke described what occurred behind closed doors by saying simply, "The council displayed unanimity in preference to support the secretary general, but there is no consensus".
Speaking officially on behalf of the U. S., he moved that UNESCO used its good offices to set up a physics laboratory with facilities that would be beyond those that any single European country could provide, and that would be comparable to th major American facilities at Brookhaven & Berkeley.
