Word: beginnings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Angry resignation over West Bank weakens Begin regime...
Ailing Prime Minister Menachem Begin, who said that he and Dayan "parted in friendship and warmth," planned to take over the Foreign Ministry himself, at least for the time being. (A logical replacement, Deputy Prime Minister Yigael Yadin, is in the hospital after suffering a heart attack.) But Dayan's departure is a sharp blow to the whole political future of the Begin regime. Opposition Leader Shimon Peres immediately called for Begin himself to resign and hold new elections. Although Begin is highly unlikely to take that course, his position is seriously weakened. Not only does Dayan have...
Another factor in Dayan's conflict with the Begin regime was the endless controversy over Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Leading the fight for more settlements was Agriculture Minister Ariel Sharon,- who last week submitted to the Cabinet a proposal calling for the expropriation of between 2,500 and 4,000 acres of privately owned Arab land on the West Bank. Dayan himself believes that all Israelis should have freedom of movement on the West Bank, but he is well aware that the Israeli settlements are passionately opposed by the Arabs, and that the U.S. has called them...
...military government authorities from the West Bank and an evacuation of Israeli military forces from Arab population centers. Dayan proposed that the responsibility for municipal issues be transferred to local Palestinian councils even before the autonomy talks are concluded. That was clearly not a policy that appeals to Menachem Begin or the hawks in his Cabinet and so Dayan walked...
...costlier credit, oil and everything else is rapidly declining. Washington Economic Consultant Michael Evans calculates that inflation and the rising tax bite have reduced the spendable income of a family of four earning $20,000 annually by $1,000 so far this year. If consumers suddenly begin closing up their wallets and pocketbooks, as they are expected to, inventories of unsold goods will rise and business will fall off sharply. Even Treasury Secretary G. William Miller, who had previously been happy-talking the economy by predicting that the recession was already half over, last week admitted that the coming downturn...