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...letter of resignation," said the Secretary, whereupon he handed Herzog a white envelope. The letter inside was brief: "Mr. President, I hereby submit my resignation from the office of Prime Minister. Yours respectfully, and with all good wishes to you and your family for a happy New Year, Menachem Begin." Business done, the two men chatted briefly, then Meridor departed...
...saddened, President Reagan ordered American forces beefed up in the area with an additional 2,000 seaborne Marines to be stationed in the waters off Beirut. The Reagan Administration could only watch, however, when its ally Israel suffered a different kind of shock: the announcement by Prime Minister Menachem Begin that he would resign...
...wall behind the stage in the Tel Aviv theater was decorated with huge Israeli flags, framing pictures of two Zionist heroes, Vladimir Jabotinsky and Theodor Herzl. Oddly, there was no photograph of Menachem Begin. Nor was the Prime Minister present as 950 members of the Herut Party gathered last week to elect his successor in a boisterous, eight-hour-long session. If the attention of an anxious nation had been riveted on Begin while he debated whether to resign, Israelis seemed determined, once that decision was made, to move into the new and uncertain post-Begin era without looking back...
...favors regular hours and punctilious habits, but admires, and often exemplifies, a debonair style. He savors jokes, but does not tell them. And even though he rarely raises his voice, he has always been fired by passionate convictions. As Menachem Begin's successor, Yitzhak Shamir, 67, is at once less strident and more uncompromising than his former boss. Instead of denouncing or defending Begin's policies, the small (5 ft. 4 in.) man with deep-set eyes and a shock of gray-black hair may simply take to investing them with his distinct brand of quiet, guarded authority...
...Shamir entered the law school of Jerusalem's Hebrew University, only to drop out in 1937, as the Arab revolt against the burgeoning Jewish presence in Palestine intensified. That same year, he joined Irgun Zrai Leumi (National Military Organization), the radical terrorist group whose subsequent leader was Menachem Begin...