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...support to Hussein's long-standing insistence on an international peace conference as a forum for solving the Middle East's problems. The Israeli Labor Party leader's offer was speedily denounced back home by hard-line members of the other major partner in his national unity government, the Likud bloc...
Peres' U.N. performance did not please some of his Cabinet colleagues from the Likud bloc. Several of the dissidents, including Finance Minister Yitzhak Moda'i, charged that the Peres proposals had not been approved, or even discussed, by the Cabinet before the Prime Minister left for Vienna, Washington and New York City on Oct. 15. Deputy Prime Minister David Levy accused Peres of "dangerous deviations from the agreed policy of this government." Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir, leader of the Likud bloc, was more circumspect. At a two-hour luncheon meeting with European Community foreign ministers in Luxembourg, he said only...
...respect," that while mentioning all six of the offending charges, stopped short of making a formal apology. It was apparently enough to persuade Peres to back off. At 11:59 p.m. Thursday, word went out that the shaky union between Peres' left-of-center Labor Party and the rightist Likud bloc, to which Sharon belongs, had survived...
...Peres chose last week to square off against Sharon remains a matter of speculation. Strident attacks by Sharon against Peres' peace initiatives are nothing new. Moreover, Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir, the Likud leader who is scheduled to take over the prime ministership in October 1986, had warned that Sharon's dismissal would ensure the collapse of the government. Peres' actions led many to conclude that a government split-up was precisely what he had in mind. With his popularity rating running at a record 67.2%, Peres perhaps hoped to form a narrow-based government without Likud. But the small religious...
...Mount of Olives cemetery in Jerusalem to attend a memorial service on the third anniversary of the death of his wife Aliza. The former Israeli Prime Minister had not been seen in public since a similar service last year, and some 200 people, including seven Cabinet ministers from his Likud bloc, gathered to pray and pay their respects. After the 15-minute service, Begin answered well-wishers and old friends with only a single vacant repetition of "Shalom." His appearance dispelled rumors that he was bedridden, but it confirmed anew the deep melancholy of the man who has become Israel...