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Because Begin refused to groom a successor within Herut, a power struggle at last week's convention was probably inevitable. Shamir, bolstered by a letter of support from Begin, who remained in seclusion at his Jerusalem home, won the first round when a Shamir loyalist, Minister of Labor Moshe Katzav...
The showdown would have come in the third round, which pitted Shamir's candidate, Minister Without Portfolio Moshe Arens, against Levy for the chairmanship of the convention steering committee. Instead, the convention ground to a halt when Sharon tried to pack it with 200 pro-Sharon and pro-Levy delegates...
The climax came at 1:30 a.m. last Thursday, after Convention Chairman Katzav had called a recess. While Shamir's supporters were out of the hall, the Levy-Sharon forces seized control, installing Knesset Member David Magen, a Sharon supporter, in Katsav's place. Magen quickly won a vote of...
Hours later, Shamir appealed for an agreement to resume the convention within a few weeks. Labor Party leaders, for their part, maintained a discreet silence, but they were said to be discussing the developments with the smaller political parties that have supported Likud in the past. The pro-Labor Jerusalem...
Singapore insists that the ban penalizes the nation even though it has already decided to abide by the animal-protection covenants in the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species. Moreover, the government protests, the embargo has cut off the legitimate export of some $12 million worth of bred-in...