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...prime minister's visit comes a month before he is due to swap jobs with Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir of the conservative Likud bloc under a power-sharing pact between Likud and the left-of-center Labor Party...
...government official, who demanded anonymity, said in Washington after the summit that the United States was cool to any plan that would include the Soviet Union in an international forum. Likud members of Peres' government also voiced opposition to an international meeting during yesterday's regular Cabinet meeting...
...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...
...illegal, the Israeli Supreme Court last week took up the case. After two days of hearings, a three- justice panel ordered the government to show by July 14 why it should not begin a police probe of Shin Bet. If the court eventually orders an investigation, Shamir and the Likud will be forced to go along...
...charged that Shalom ordered the two captured Arabs clubbed to death and then covered up the organization's role before two official investigations into the killings. Rising calls for a new probe were opposed by both Labor Prime Minister Shimon Peres and Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir, head of the Likud bloc in Israel's national unity coalition. They insisted that an inquiry into Shin Bet's role in the deaths could expose state secrets...