'Golda'

Most Americans have a vague idea about who Golda Meir was, much in the same way they have a vague idea about Babe Ruth or Charlie Chaplin: They probably can call up in their mind's eye an image of the Israeli premier, even if they can't say much about her life and career. She is the stooped, beetle-browed, chain-smoking and straight-talking Iron Lady of Israel, the grandmother who became the fledgling nation's fourth prime minister.