Word: linn
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...members who quit the Likud, Yitzhak Peretz and Amnon Linn, wanted to express their discontent with the government's policies, notably its handling of the economy and of recent disturbances on the occupied West Bank. To Labor Party Leader Shimon Peres, it seemed the right moment to deliver what he hoped would be a political coup de grace to Begin. Only two months ago, Begin had barely survived a 58-to-58 tie vote on a no-confidence motion. Peres found a new weapon in the government's latest statistics on inflation, which showed that in April alone...
...Palestinians on the occupied West Bank. As he told a Labor Party meeting in Tel Aviv last week: "When I was Minister of Defense [1974-77], I made sure that Israeli soldiers in the 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...
Begin, who had remained outside the chamber throughout most of Peres' speech, brought the audience one of its few moments of laughter with a pantomime suggesting how Peres and Peretz had conducted their deal above, and below, the table. To Peretz and Linn, however, it was no laughing matter. Later, both men received telephone threats, and Linn was assigned a police guard...
...debit side, Thomas Derrah's hulking Puck fails to spark the rest of the production in quite the same inhuman way as Mark Linn-Baker's in the spring. Derrah, verbally agile but physically sluggish, acts the comic sidekick; where Linn-Baker's animality was ferral, Derrah's is docile, dog-like--Oberon's best friend...