Princess Ashraf Pahlavi, twin sister of Iran's Shah, Imelda Marcos, wife of Philippines' president; Minister Barbara Castle, Secretary of State for Health and Social Services of Great Britain; Jehan Sadat, wife Egyptian president Anwar Sadat.

So many delegations were headed by politicians that the Conference became an arena of international disputes instead of a forum about humanitarianism, social or educative issues.

Finally, the challenge turned to be only a rumor, but the Declaration of Mexico draft of 30 June already included a call to eliminate Zionism.

[citation needed] Later, the UN General Assembly adopted, by the impulse of Arab countries, the Soviet bloc and the Non-Aligned Movement, the 3379 resolution, which considered Zionism as racism and compared it with South Africa's Apartheid.

[citation needed] Three years after Yitzhak Rabin's appointment, in 1977, a US bank account (illegal at that time in Israel) held by Leah was exposed by Haaretz journalist Dan Margalit.