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...where the peace process idled last week, when Shamir balked at Baker's proposal that the delegation to the Cairo talks include both a Palestinian who maintains an office or a second residence in East Jerusalem and a Palestinian deported from the territories. Shamir's intransigence brought his Likud Party into direct conflict with the other major member of his coalition government, the Labor Party, which has embraced Baker's conditions. The impasse threatens to derail both the peace process and the 15-month-old national unity government...
...raucous meeting of the right-wing Likud Central Committee last week, Trade and Industry Minister Ariel ("Arik") Sharon stunned the 3,200 delegates by announcing his resignation from the Cabinet. In a scalding attack against the party's leader, Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, Sharon declared that "under your government, Palestinian terrorism runs wild throughout the land of Israel." He insisted, "I know it is possible to eliminate terror...
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir promised in a phone call that they would not allow the attack to threaten Israeli-Egyptian relations. But it could strengthen the hand of Israeli hard- liners at this week's crucial meeting of the Likud bloc's Central Committee. Industry and Trade Minister Ariel Sharon says the bus tragedy is proof that the Arabs want blood, not peace. He plans to load more amendments onto Shamir's already heavily encumbered plan for Palestinian elections...
...housing. Of the 25,000 new apartments planned for immigrants to Israel in 1990 (expected to cost $1 billion), only a few hundred will be located in the occupied areas. One reason: Finance Minister Shimon Peres, the Labor Party leader, prepares the budget and does not share his Likud coalition partners' enthusiasm for such settlements...
...months the fragile Likud-Labor coalition has been heading for a showdown over how Israel should engage the Palestinians. Last week Likud Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir nearly precipitated the crisis by announcing that he was firing Science and Technology Minister Ezer Weizman for holding secret talks with the P.L.O. Israeli policy forbids contact with the P.L.O., but Weizman has long advocated -- and indirectly practiced -- a dialogue. Labor threatened to bolt from the government, but eventually both sides compromised. Labor stayed in, although Weizman was excluded from the foreign-policy-making inner Cabinet...