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Clinton has publicly denied being influenced by Denise Rich and has insisted to friends that if anyone helped nudge the pardon, it was former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, who called repeatedly to press Rich's case. Sources tell TIME Barak's influence could also be seen in the talks held at least as late as the second week of January between White House staff and lawyers for another pardon applicant, Jonathan Pollard, the convicted spy for Israel. While not dismissing Barak's influence, House investigators are focusing on the more familiar nexus of money and politics. According...
...television. When the newscasters announced his landslide win, the suite erupted in cheers as Sharon's people pumped the air with their fists. Only Sharon sat quietly, motionless and hunched. After his maverick, wilderness years as an outsider, the buck now stopped, dauntingly, with him. Prime Minister Ehud Barak phoned to concede. "Ehud, I want to tell you that I admire the way you fought with tenacity, like a good soldier," Sharon said. "We have great things to do and can only do them together." It was an overt appeal that Barak bring his Labor Party into a ruling coalition...
...prioritizing stability over peace, Israel has left Yasser Arafat in an historic tight spot. Not that the Palestinian leader's dilemma will be of much concern to acting prime minister Ehud Barak and Prime Minister-elect Ariel Sharon, who announced late Thursday they'd agreed in principle to form a unity government. The priority of the unity coalition - in which it is mooted that Barak will serve as defense minister, Shimon Peres will be foreign minister and their Labor party will fill half of the 14 cabinet posts - will be Israel's security...
...insisted, during the election campaign, was only a matter of weeks away is now on the back burner, and the new government's priority in negotiations with the Palestinians will be to achieve interim non-belligerency agreements - cease-fires, in a sense, rather than a peace treaty. For Barak to accept such dramatically truncated peace goals is a significant retreat, but then, having lost the election by 25 points, he has little room for maneuver. And besides, most commentators agree that the "imminent" final status agreement was always something of a myth in the cold light of day outside...
That would have been Sharon's fate, too, had Labor stayed out. But both Sharon and Barak have compelling motivations for wanting to make this work: The more popular Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu stayed out of the election only because he believed that a direct vote for prime minister without changing the balance in parliament would produce an unstable and short-lived outcome. He would almost certainly challenge Sharon for the party's nomination, which means Sharon has good reason to make his government last. Barak, too, faces a mounting tide of Labor party discontent with his leadership - he actually...