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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...
Bill Clinton has portrayed the Marc Rich pardon as a favor to Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak, citing the imperative of foreign policy to justify his last-minute decision. Had he checked with his own State Department, however, he would have discovered that diplomatic experts rejected a similar plea five years...
...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...
...Acting Prime Minister Ehud Barak immediately closed Palestinian areas and his defense minister vowed that Israel would continue to pursue those responsible for planning such attacks - an ominous warning in light of Tuesday's assassination of a lieutenant colonel in Yasser Arafat's security detail in an Israeli helicopter attack. Even more ominous, perhaps, was the sense that Israel and the Palestinians may be entering a new downward spiral of violent conflict...