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...past and charged that the government's territorial and settlement policy not only contributed to the corruption of the Israeli people but also violated "the vital Zionist aimpeace with our neighbors." Branding Begin "an obstacle in his nation's way," Talmon called for the Premier's immediate resignation...
...assessment: "A good many American Jews are offended by the settlement policy when, as in the cases of Hebron and Nablus, the settlements are not linked to Israel's security." One of the many U.S. Jewish leaders to express their objections directly to Begin, Mann comments that the Premier "listens to what we've got to say. I'm not saying, however, that he's moved by what we tell...
...years the prevailing wisdom in Rome has held that no effective Italian government could be formed without the support of the powerful Communists. Last week, with an alacrity that was unusual for Rome politics, Premier Francesco Cossiga, 51, put the lie to that notion: the Christian Democratic leader not only succeeded in forming a surprisingly solid-looking government but pushed the Communists into outright opposition...
...exploiting a tilt to the right in his own party, he persuaded his central committee to back him in joining a government without the Communists. In exchange he is to have a stronger role in policymaking and a commitment from the Christian Democrats not to veto a possible Socialist Premier in the futuremeaning Craxi, naturally...
...Thomas Aquinas Murphy, DeButts and Shapiro. A few months earlier the same three men, a neatly balanced ticket, did the same thing for Yeshiva University, a Jewish institution. They and others are prime movers of the Business Roundtable, which has replaced some more regressive groups as the premier public policy arm of corporate America. A few years ago, his peers selected Irv Shapiro to head the Roundtable. When Shapiro, who is a Jew, a Democrat and a lawyer, was chosen in 1974 as chairman of Du Pont, which had been led by Christian, Republican, financial and technical men, it seemed...