Word: herzog
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Elsewhere in Europe last week, Israeli diplomacy had a smoother ride. Setting another precedent, President Chaim Herzog became the first Israeli head of state to visit West Germany. At the site of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, which he helped liberate in 1945 as an officer in the British army, Herzog said, "I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are the dead. The living have no right to forget." Despite the agonizing memories, Herzog hailed West Germany as "one of our closest friends." That was more than mere rhetoric. Today the Federal...
...report, which ended official inquiries into government involvement in the slayings, blamed former Shin Bet Chief Avraham Shalom, who resigned in June in exchange for immunity from prosecution, and three of his assistants for the murders and a subsequent cover-up. President Chaim Herzog pardoned Shalom and his aides, as well as seven other Shin Bet agents...
...According to their rotation plan, Labor Party Prime Minister Shimon Peres and Foreign Minister Shamir, head of the Likud bloc, were scheduled to switch jobs last Tuesday. Indeed, Peres, who has led the country for the past 25 months, had submitted his resignation the previous week to President Chaim Herzog, and Shamir was poised to be sworn in for the next 25 months, until new elections scheduled for November 1988. At the last moment, however, a dispute broke out that threatened to topple the coalition government...
...insists, "Chief Eagle told me, and he would not lie." Greenfield is Jewish, and Little Sun grew up in Spokane, where he attends a Conservative synagogue. The wild western tale apparently interested officials of El Al Airlines enough to fly Little Sun over for free, and Israeli President Chaim Herzog met with the youngster. Will he become a chief when he grows up? Well, said his mother, "he wants to be a rabbi." Funny, he looks Siouxish...
Shamir's position was complicated when it was disclosed that Shalom had written a letter to President Herzog, pleading that "all my actions in the matter of Bus 300 were carried out by authority and with permission." According to Israeli press accounts, that permission could only have come from Shamir, since the Prime Minister has sole authority over Shin...