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...more important arena of nuclear-arms talks, new details of a Soviet proposal seemed to emphasize rather than ease a continuing deadlock. In the Middle East, U.S. diplomacy has stalled severely. Late last week the White House had not even received official confirmation that Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin would keep a long-scheduled date to visit Washington next week. In Central American policy the Administration, snubbed in an effort to open negotiations with the leftist guerrillas in El Salvador, is concentrating instead on negotiating with its Democratic opposition in the House, so far with uncertain prospects. The troublesome details...
...marked contrast, Israel's Commission of Inquiry did not shrink from concluding that the massacre was the work of right-wing Lebanese Phalangist militiamen. It found a number of Israeli officials, including Prime Minister Menachem Begin, negligent and recommended that Defense Minister Ariel Sharon resign...
...response, the financially constrained government of Prime Minister Menachem Begin initially offered wage increases of 22% (after indexing for inflation) and a work week of 42 hours. Said Finance Minister Yoram Aridor in a typically uncompromising speech: "What kind of society will we have if everyone gets the idea he can go on a hunger strike to get a wage increase?" Finally, after a Cabinet meeting devoted almost entirely to the issue, Begin agreed to meet a delegation of hunger strikers. When the Communists brought a motion of no confidence against the government, the issue sparked one of the most...
DIED. Simcha Ehrlich, 67, Deputy Prime Minister of Israel, an uncharismatic but influential politician and a moderate voice in Menachem Begin's ruling coalition; of a stroke; in Jerusalem. A Polish-born optician who was elected to the Knesset in 1969, he became chairman of the Liberal Party and, in 1977, Begin's Finance Minister, since the Liberals were the second largest element in the victorious Likud bloc. Ehrlich took the credit, then the blame, for the government's "economic revolution," which led to Israel's chronic triple-digit inflation. He resigned the finance portfolio...
...only one sign of the way many Israelis felt as the death toll from last year's war in Lebanon and the subsequent occupation reached 500. Protesters continued a seven-week vigil outside the residence of Prime Minister Menachem Begin. The opposition Labor Party called for an official inquiry into the Begin government's handling of the war. It was joined, ironically, by former Defense Minister (and now Minister Without Portfolio) Ariel Sharon, who is said to have told the Cabinet, "I'm not prepared to wear the mark of Cain or have people wave 'murderer...