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Meanwhile, Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir stunned Israeli politicians by announcing that he will head his delegation at the Madrid talks, indicating he wanted to make sure his hard-line views would dominate Israel's positions...
...more dovish minister, David Levy, said he would skip the conference and criticized Shamir for naming his own people to head negotiating teams. Among the men Shamir reportedly was taking to Madrid was deputy foreign minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a political rival of Levy...
...White House announced that all parties had accepted the invitation to the conference, which opens next Wednesday, and urged them to go to Madrid "with an open mind." Syria and Lebanon apparently were the last Arab states to accept the Soviet and U.S. invitations to the conference...
...rejected an Israeli suggestion that the bilateral negotiations be held in the Middle East, rather than in Madrid or another neutral venue...
Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France Stanley H. Hoffmann said that he believes the conference, which is scheduled to begin in Madrid on Oct. 30, will be a failure...