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...election jockeying begins in earnest this week. Sharon, 72, could face opposition within his party from several colleagues, including former Finance Minister Meir Sheetrit and the popular rising star of the right, Silvan Shalom. Netanyahu's supporters may also try a parliamentary maneuver to push for a general election, undercutting Barak's anti-Bibi move...
...between left and right--something Israelis call a national-unity government. Barak wanted Sharon included to bolster his minority government. But Sharon set out to exact a high price, demanding a veto over peace-process issues. Barak's team wavered. Two weeks ago, Sharon's chief negotiator, Likud legislator Meir Sheetrit, demanded a decision. "Let's cut the bulls___," he remembers saying. "I want to do a deal on the veto item." Barak wasn't playing. The next day the Prime Minister moved to cut the ground out from under Sharon, appearing on television to deny that he'd given...
...these post-Oslo days of mutual recognition. It's noticeable that in all of the footage from 1972, the word "Palestinian" is never used. The gunmen are described simply as "Arab." Indeed, at the time of Munich, the Palestinians were still a forgotten people and Israeli prime minister Golda Meir was notoriously insisting they did not exist. Vilified throughout the Western world, his slain comrades were nonetheless given a heroes' burial by thousands of supporters in Libya. For Spitzer and his colleagues, their countrymen and millions of sympathizers, it was a senseless act of brutality...
...Like some mobsters 5. Putin's former org. 8. Meir contemporary 12. The sun, to your skin 13. Surfer's milieu 14. A sibling of Bart's 15. City on the Tevere 16. Clinton dispatched her to the Mideast 18. Kucera upset him at the French Open 20. Toyota model until 1999 21. Stutz Bearcat contemporary 22. Sacagawea is on one 24. Shaun King, for one 26. "New Look" designer 28. Org. that has cut long-distance access fees 31. Kabibble of Kay Kyser's band 32. Angela's __ 34. Helen Thomas recently resigned from it 35. Sara __ is spinning...
...federal grand jury indicts seven top White House aides on charges of conspiring to impede the Watergate investigation. 3 - Golda Meir resigns unexpectedly from her position as Israeli Prime Minister. 6 - The Committee on House and Undergraduate Life votes to equalize the enrollment of men and women through either sex-blind or equal admissions. 11 - Vice President Gerald Ford accepts a Man of the Year award from the Young Republicans at the Harvard Club of Boston as several hundred demonstrators rallied outside, chanting "jail to the chief" and "dump Nixon, junk Ford." 13 - An Economics Department review committee releases...