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...Peace for Galilee" a month ago to press on to Beirut remains uncertain, but its primary aim, as Defense Minister Ariel Sharon put it bluntly last week, was "to destroy the P.L.O." In addition, the Israelis were after the top leadership. A Knesset member who belongs to the ruling Likud coalition last week told TIME'S Robert Slater, "We were definitely after Arafat. Whenever we knew he was heading for a certain bunker in Beirut, we sent planes to that bunker in the hope that he would be harmed. On the third day of the invasion, the Cabinet...
...invasion was strongly supported by the Israeli public. According to the survey, 78% of those questioned said the operation in Lebanon was "definitely" justified, another 16% supported it with some reservations and only 5% opposed it. The poll concluded that if an election were held now, Begin's Likud would win by a landslide...
...with widespread discontent over Israel's triple-digit inflation during his re-election campaign last year, Begin appointed Yoram Aridor as Finance Minister and gave him a mandate to lower taxes on such luxury items as color TVs and household appliances, a short-term ploy that helped the Likud win the election-but only at the cost of rekindled inflation a few months later...
...West Bank kept the safety catches of their weapons on." To woo Peretz and Linn, Peres offered them safe Labor seats in the next election. He also hoped to benefit from the fact that the three-member ultranationalist Tehiya Party was wavering in its support for the Likud...
Even by the rowdy standards of Knesset debates, last week's performance was noteworthy for its invective. As soon as Peres took the stand to deliver his 45-minute critique of the government, Likud deputies began charging that he had "bought" Peretz and Linn. Retorted Peres: "I bought no one. You, the Likud, weren't true to your own platform. Linn and Peretz acted with integrity." When Peres tried to resume, Likud Deputy Pinhas Goldstein shouted: "Will someone tell me where I can get some pills for nausea?" To that, Labor's Dov Ben-Meir shot back...