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...election many saw as a referendum on the country's peace process, Israel appears almost evenly divided. An unofficial count shows Netanyahu with 50.3 percent of the vote to 49.7 percent for Peres. Israel's course toward peace has been pursued aggressively by both Peres and his Labor Party predecessor, Yitzak Rabin, assassinated last November. Netanyahu has come to grudgingly accept the accords granting the Palestinian Authority limited self- rule in Gaza and the West Bank, but opposes Palestinian statehood or trading occupied land for peace with Israel's neighbors. He has moderated his tough stance on the PLO, saying...
...narrowest of leads over Likud Party leader Benjamin Netanyahu. The polls, conducted by Israeli television stations, showed Peres leading by just one-to-four percent, which means the outcome cannot yet be predicted. At stake is Israel's course toward peace, pursued aggressively by both Peres and his Labor Party predecessor, Yitzak Rabin, who was assassinated last November by right-wing rabbinical student Yigal Amir. Netanyahu has come grudgingly to accept the accords granting the Palestinian Authority limited self-rule in Gaza and the West Bank, but he opposes Palestinian statehood and trading occupied land for peace with Israel...
...first unofficial results are not expected until sometime Thursday morning EDT. If the election remains very close, the final results may not be available for several days, as absentee ballots are counted. At the Labor party headquarters Wednesday night, Peres' supporters sounded optimistic, but were careful not to declare victory based on the exit polling data. At Likud headquarters, workers were subdued, but had not given up hope. Netanyahu's supporters are counting on the momentum he gained in the final week of campaigning, rising by as much as seven percentage points in some polls. Exit polling also led Israeli...
While Clinton will have warm words for the saints, earlier this year business leaders were hearing something else from Secretary of Labor Robert Reich. Until the other Bob, Treasury Secretary Rubin, maneuvered him aside, Reich was an advocate of using the tax code to reward corporations that avoid layoffs by retraining workers, among other things. He also talked about creating a "corporate hall of shame" to pillory the bad guys...
...Press and This Week with David Brinkley is harder than it looks. On the first show, Republican Congressman John Kasich was so bothered by feedback in his earpiece that he had to keep removing it to answer the questions. A week later, host Tony Snow kept referring to Labor Secretary Robert Reich as "Senator." Snow, a conservative newspaper columnist, is a competent but colorless interviewer, and the show is loaded with superfluous gimmicks (questions from viewers sent over the Internet; clips from old Fox Movietone newsreels). Overall, the program--forced to broadcast from various locations around Washington while a permanent...