Word: ministership
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Labor and Likud agree to rotate the prime ministership...
...assign the 24 posts in the new Cabinet. One of last week's proposals called for the positions to be divided evenly between the two camps, but exactly how remains in dispute. According to Peres' scenario, he would initially head the government, with a deputy prime ministership and the Foreign and Finance ministries going to rival Likud forces; the Defense Ministry would be given to Labor. Shamir, on the other hand, promised that if he is allowed to be Prime Minister first, Labor would have the courtesy of naming both the Foreign and Defense ministers. Shamir insisted, however...
...Israeli-occupied West Bank would have to be approved by two-thirds of the Cabinet, but he is now leaning toward a simple majority vote. "It was a very sad meeting," said Mapam Leader Victor Shentov, after Peres told him of the plan to share the prime ministership. "We have a historical mission to be a party that presents its views clearly to fight the growing extremism in this country." Shamir feels that Mapam's potential rebellion strengthens his case to be first in the Prime Minister rotation. If Mapam deserts Peres, Labor would be in an especially weak...
...Zimbabwe's white minority is threatening to break apart only 27 months after the transformation of white-dominated Rhodesia into black-dominated Zimbabwe. Mugabe and the rotund Nkomo had helped negotiate the terms of Zimbabwe's independence. In the ensuing election, Nkomo was defeated for the prime ministership by Mugabe, and since then there has been a growing rift between the two nationalist leaders. Last February, Mugabe dismissed Nkomo from his Cabinet post as Minister Without Portfolio for allegedly plotting to overthrow the government. Despite Nkomo's denials, Mugabe suspects his rival of having masterminded a series...
Privately the ministers intimated that if there is no discernible economic improve ment by spring, Thatcher will have to change her tack or face several senior Cabinet resignations. That could well spell the end of her prime ministership...