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...hills of the Israeli-occupied West Bank, cheered and sang as their distinguished guest presented a Torah scroll for the settlement's new synagogue. For others, though, these were chilling words in a chilling context. The speaker was Menachem Begin, 63, onetime leader of the anti-British, anti-Arab terrorist group known as Irgun Zvai Leumi (National Military Organization), who almost certainly will be Israel's next Premier. In a stunning upset victory, Begin's Likud (Unity) coalition last week became the dominant bloc in Israel's parliament, replacing a shattered, scandal-ridden Labor alignment that had governed the Jewish...
...worst case" scenario is that a Begin government would mean not just a postponement of Geneva but a substantially escalated possibility of renewed war in the Middle East. The initial Arab reactions reflected both anger at the victory of a man whom Damascus radio called "a racist and a terrorist" and some caution. The Cairo daily al-Akhbar argued that it really did not matter who headed the Jerusalem government since "the liberation of occupied Arab lands is not dependent on who will come to power in Israel but on Arab solidarity and insistence on the realization of Arab goals...
...Israelis have dealt with the Arabs. The fates of two villages, as reported in both books, Deir Yasin and Kfar Kassim, demonstrate the extremes to which this policy could be carried. Deir Yasin has become the well-known rallying cry of the Palestinian resistance; on April 9, 1948, the terrorist bands Lehi and Irgun Zvai Leumi--the latter under Menahim Begin's leadership--massacred some 250 Arabs. But Deir Yasin is merely the most remembered of several massacres that summer which were intended to drive the Arab population from Israel, and that not so surprisingly often succeeded...
...headed by the likely winner, Acting Premier Shimon Peres, was hurt by strikes, inflation and recurring scandals. After a brisk start, the new Democratic Movement for Change, led by Yigael Yadin, appears too elitist to many voters. The right-wing opposition Likud, whose ailing leader is onetime anti-British Terrorist Menachem Begin, was accused of maintaining an illegal bank account abroad-the issue that forced Rabin to step down last month. Last week all campaigning was halted as the country mourned for 54 soldiers who were killed when their helicopter crashed during maneuvers on the West Bank...
Died. Mauricio Borgonovo, 37, Foreign Minister of El Salvador who was kidnaped by leftist guerrillas last month; shot to death by his abductors; found on a road outside San Salvador. The killing of Borgonovo was one of many assassinations committed by both terrorist and government groups in the wake of the country's questionable February elections claimed by the military-backed government party. The wealthy businessman was kidnaped by members of the Farabundo Marti Popular Liberation Front, which demanded the release of 37 political prisoners in ex change for his life. When President Arturo Armando Molina refused to negotiate...