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Labor Party Leader Shimon Peres was a man of two minds last week, after President Chaim Herzog charged him with the task of forming a new government. Peres had to decide whether to join forces with outgoing Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, leader of the Likud bloc, in a broad, bipartisan coalition, or try to build a narrower alliance of his own by enticing some of the 13 smaller parties. He conferred twice with leaders of the National Religious Party in an effort to pick up enough seats for a Laborled majority; he also met twice with Shamir for talks...
...Sunday, however, President Chaim Herzog asked Peres to form a new government. The elections had left Labor with 44 seats in the Knesset, three more than Likud but still far short of the 61 needed for a parliamentary majority. In the past, Likud has had more success than Labor in patching together a coalition from the small religious and splinter parties that will now control 35 seats in the Knesset. But as Herzog consulted with many of these 13 groups, it became clear that some former Likud supporters were reluctant to commit themselves to a new Shamir government. Among...
...seemed so fractured and complex. Though Labor had won the most seats, Likud appeared to be in a slightly better position to piece together a government because the splinter parties that are ideologically closer to Likud fared better. The next step will be for the country's President, Chaim Herzog, to ask either Shamir or Peres to try to forge a coalition. But even Herzog, whose sympathies favor Labor, was delaying his choice until it became clearer which leader had a better chance of succeeding...
...socked a three-run blast to left in the sixth inning for his first college homer. The newly-legal Kay now has something to drink about, L'chaim...
...will talk about "strategic cooperation" between longtime allies and try to overcome some of the bitterness engendered by the Israeli war in Lebanon. But they will obviously not solve all the outstanding issues between two nations whose needs are sometimes at variance. For this reason, Israel's President Chaim Herzog, just back from a visit to the U.S. himself, warned his countrymen against having "exaggerated expectations" about Shamir's trip to Washington. And, as the Prime Minister and the President confer, the foes of Yasser Arafat may be learning once again the futility of having exaggerated expectations about...