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Labor and Likud sign on for five years of togetherness
...five hours on Thursday. After all, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Shamir had been up until 5 a.m. negotiating the last detail. Finally, at 3:45 p.m., the two met again in the Knesset basement. Sitting at a blue cloth-covered table and surrounded by colleagues, Labor Leader Peres and Likud Chief Shamir signed the accord that established a national unity government. Cognac glasses in hand, the new partners toasted the accomplishment with cries of "L 'chayim " (To life...
...months while Shamir serves as Foreign Minister and acting Prime Minister; for the following 25 months, the two men will switch jobs. Yitzhak Rabin, who was Labor Prime Minister from 1974 to 1977, will be Defense Minister during the entire 50-month term. Yitzhak Modai, until last week the Likud government's Energy Minister, will head the crucial Finance Ministry. Ariel Sharon, the Likud politician who was forced to resign from his job as Defense Minister in 1983, will be Minister of Industry and Trade...
...pact was in doubt right up to the final minute. Peres, who had until Sept. 16 to form a government, faced growing opposition within his own ranks. Seven Knesset allies, including the tiny leftist party, Mapam, refused to link themselves with their longtime ideological foes in Likud and withdrew from the Labor Alignment. Shamir had his share of headaches as well. At a party meeting to approve the list of Likud ministers, Sharon warned against yielding to Labor on certain issues, including the pace of Jewish settlements on the occupied West Bank. Then a squabble developed over whether the National...
...these had a total of only 35 seats. As a modest step toward reducing the inordinate power and influence of the small groups, some Israelis favor raising the minimum support required of a party from 1% to 3% of the vote. In the past, Labor and Likud have both been reluctant to press for such a change because they have needed the support of the small parties. Under a unity government, however, they will not need this support and may at last feel free to carry out this badly needed reform...