Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Foreign Ministry is headed by Shimon Peres, head of the left-leaning Labor Party, which has been more flexible on the issue of talking to the PLO than the right-wing Likud bloc led by Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir. Shamir has ruled out any contact...
...United States has breeched its policy [of not talking to the PLO] and the credibility of the United States has been compromised," said Netanyahu, a Likud bloc parliament member...
...unprecedented uproar from U.S. Jews complicates Shamir's exquisite dilemma. His Likud bloc must either embrace the religious and right-wing parties to form a narrow coalition at odds with most American Jews, or entice the Labor Party into a broad coalition that would dilute Likud's strong-arm policies toward the Palestinians. After four weeks of marathon negotiations, the Prime Minister has yet to make the choice...
...balance of power between Moscow and the federated republics. Part of Gorbachev's plan to democratize his country involves the creation of a Congress of the People's Deputies, which would wield legislative power over everything from constitutional changes to adjustments in state boundaries. Estonian concern focuses on a bloc of 750 legislators in the 2,250-member Congress who are to be elected by pan-Soviet organizations, such as artists' unions, veterans groups or the Communist Youth League, rather than by voters in local constituencies. Legal experts in Tallinn contend that the parliamentary reorganization will dilute the influence...
...really necessary for commentators and budding historians to make such sweeping generalizations about various generations? It's not as if students are a monolithic bloc responding to the same forces...