Word: herzog
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...weeks ago, Labor Prime Minister Shimon Peres and Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir, his Likud partner in the national unity government, hoped for a quick end to the controversy when President Chaim Herzog pardoned Shalom of any crimes committed in the affair. In exchange, Shalom handed in his resignation. Three other officials of the agency were also pardoned...
Under an arrangement worked out during an all-night meeting, Avraham Shalom, the central figure in the controversy, resigned as director of Shin Bet, Israel's domestic security agency. He was immediately granted a pardon by President Chaim Herzog...
Jurists, legal scholars and the Israeli press were appalled by Herzog's pardon of Shalom before he was charged with any wrongdoing. The decision was a departure from past practice, in which Presidents have pardoned only convicted criminals. Like Peres and Shamir, Herzog maintained that an investigation might have made sensitive information public. Said he: "I had to take the responsibility and decide, based on the public's welfare as I see it, according to my knowledge and conscience...
While Jewish leaders were upset at the omission, Israel's President Chaim Herzog termed the Pope's visit an important step toward "the correcting of the injustice which the church perpetrated on the Jewish people during 1,500 years." To Rabbi Toaff, the occasion was "a turning point in the history of the church," one that finally "puts the two religions on a level of equality...
...their part, fear that any more dollars they lend will simply go down the same chute as their earlier loans. In any event, the Baker plan's long-term therapy is of scant use to Mexico, which needs a bailout right away. The Reagan Administration seemed sympathetic to Herzog's appeal last week, but gave no indication about what kind of financial help it might be considering...