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...Labor, and calls for more attention to societal problems such as prejudice against Oriental Jews and Arabs, lack of consumer protection, and expanding, depersonalized bureaucracy. Aloni served as a Minister in Rabin's cabinet until last month, when she resigned in protest over his decision to include the rightist National Religious Party in the governing coalition. She has, however, retained her seat in the Knesset. Although Citizens Rights has a very small following, Alomi is regarded as an important leftist, and by Israeli standards even a radical voice in national politics...
Olmert senses an emerging rightist swing in Israel and believes that his party stands a strong chance of gaining strength in any new elections. He says that national dissatisfaction with the Rabin government is manifest, and that Likud's hard line is seen as the only realistic approach to the crisis, by increasingly large numbers of Israelis. Aloni denies the existence of this trend. "There is no rightist swing in Israel-the problem is simply that the government is undefined in its position, and indecision by those in power generally tends to aid the opposition; and in Israel, Likud...
...must obtain 17 per cent of the popular support, a coalition of three parties (for which only the extreme left qualifies) must obtain 30 per cent of the electoral balloting. These provisions purge the communist left and divert its votes at an early stage of the parcelling to the rightist majority...
...vigilantes had put up roadblocks around the city, searching cars for arms. Some 250 people, many of them prominent figures in the old regime, were arrested. When leftists on the ruling junta ordered Spínola to oust three conservative generals who were believed to be sympathetic to the rightist scheme, he balked-and then resigned...
Perhaps the new President, convinced by the uproar over his predecessor's policies in Latin America, has decided that the time has come to implement detente in this hemisphere. Though Ford took a standard rightist line toward resumption of diplomatic relations with Cuba while serving as House minority leader, there is no reason to doubt that he might not alter his stance, as he did on both China policy and the amnesty issue. It is reasonable to think that Ford is aware that the continuing exposure of American intervention in Chile can only hinder U.S. foreign policy. By allowing Javits...