Word: herzog
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...phone call from President Chaim Herzog came at precisely 8:45 a.m. last Wednesday. Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir was alone in his office in Jerusalem. Would he be free to stop over at noon? asked Herzog. Certainly, responded Shamir. To an aide who joined him a few minutes later, Shamir remarked happily, "Every few years my career takes a turn, and it's always...
...controversial and exasperating leader in Israel's 35-year history. The resignation was bound to be anticlimactic: Begin, 70, had announced his intention to quit three weeks earlier. At the urging of colleagues within his ruling Likud coalition, however, the Prime Minister agreed to put off officially notifying Herzog until Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir, 67, could be certain of holding together the fractious group and thus bettering his chances of succeeding Begin as head of government...
...issuing confusing statements about precisely what did ail the Prime Minister. First they insisted that he simply was not feeling well. Then he was said to be suffering from the flu and a severe cold. He wanted to resign in person, claimed his aides, and he would go to Herzog's office as soon as he felt well enough...
...Minister's office immediately responded by announcing that Begin was suffering from a mild skin disease that prevented him from shaving for the time being. Later that day, obviously realizing he could no longer delay his resignation but still reluctant to appear in public, Begin dispatched Meridor to Herzog's office...
...limp-off is a mystery even to the participants. When questioned, players squint into the middle distance, managers scuff the artificial turf, and fans in Winnie's, a watering hole on Crescent Street in Montreal, stare mournfully into their Molson's beer. Says St. Louis Manager Whitey Herzog: "It's the craziest race I've ever seen...