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...Dayan, who gave up his membership in the Labor Party to join the coalition. The one-eyed hero of the 1956 Sinai campaign is regarded as a tough but imaginative negotiator. There is less enthusiasm for the new Defense Minister, former Air Force Chief Ezer Weizman, 53, the hawkish nephew of Israel's first President, Chaim Weizmann. Ezer Weizman has frequently criticized the Labor Party for being too timid with the Arabs. Some Washington, and even Israeli, observers were pleased that ex-General Sharon, another outspoken hawk, had to settle for the Agriculture Ministry instead...
Although the Begin government's triumvirate is notoriously hawkish, Israeli generals are not monolithically hard-line in their politics. Rabin, the only ex-general ever to head the government, turned out to be somewhat more moderate than his predecessor Golda Meir. Former Quartermaster General Matityahu Peled, who teaches Arabic studies at Tel Aviv University, is one of the few prominent Israelis who support the idea of a Palestinian state...
Bombshell No. 1-which happily turned out to be a dud-was the announcement that Menachem Begin, hawkish leader of the victorious right-wing Likud coalition in the election a fortnight ago, had been rushed to a Tel Aviv hospital complaining of chest pains. That raised doubts about whether Begin, 63, who had suffered a serious heart attack only two months ago, was well enough to head a new government. The Likud leader, however, quickly recovered from what turned out to be exhaustion and a mild bout of angina pectoris, and astonished his countrymen by dropping bombshell...
...reassure Congressmen in the face of warnings that the Soviet Union was rapidly achieving military superiority over the U.S. This might be Brown's most remarkable achievement so far. His confidence that America can maintain deterrence and the military balance without crash programs has quieted all but the most hawkish voices in Congress. His performance has won praise from both ends of the political spectrum. Says liberal Democrat Les Aspin of Wisconsin: "Brown seems to be doing all the right things." Says conservative Republican Barry Goldwater of Arizona: "He is doing much, much better than many of us expected...
...seats. If these projections hold, Peres almost certainly will have to form a unity government of all parties, or at least a coalition with the Likud, whose blunt campaign slogan is to give "not one inch" of the occupied territories, A squabbling, hang-tough government headed by the hawkish Peres would not be a promising participant in any negotiations. Said an Egyptian diplomat: "If their government is a weak coalition, forget about Geneva and peace for this year...