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JERUSALEM: Before Benjamin Netanyahu won the Prime Ministership from Shimon Peres, Israeli officials had already struck a deal to create a Palestinian state, according to a senior adviser to Peres. In exchange for statehood, the Palestinians were prepared to drop demands for a capital in East Jerusalem, and allow Israel to annex about 10 percent of the West Bank. That understanding has been tabled by Netanyahu. His spokesman describes the deal as an "intellectual exercise," since neither side had formally agreed to them. Peres and Arafat reportedly had some doubts about the proposed settlement, but felt the understandings might serve...
...position for Lebed where he would oversee all security forces combined with a role as the Secretary of the Security Council (similar to the U.S National Security Council)," reports Zarakhovich. Zyuganov has so far not made a counteroffer, but one possible move might be to offer Lebed the prime ministership. Lebed hasn't taken the plunge yet, but Zarakhovich reports that he is not likely to lean towards a Communist Party he views as a lost cause. Whomever Lebed decides to support, Zarakhovich says he may not be able to deliver the vote. "Lebed's multi-faceted personality attracted various...
...scattering of police, no automatic rifles, no metal detectors in evidence, if present at all. Gandhi had been campaigning with little protection, a marked contrast to his previous style. His mother's assassination by Sikh bodyguards in 1984, the event that catapulted the former airline pilot into the prime ministership, had highlighted his vulnerability. For years he wore a bulletproof vest and surrounded himself with security so tight that opponents had begun ridiculing...
...Thatcher. I'll tell you very frankly, I was very sorry she resigned. Before that, we were in Paris. She told me that after 11 years of prime ministership, you have a lot of enemies because the people who don't make Minister become your enemies, and the people who were Ministers and are removed become your enemies. I think she was right. I have the same problem in Turkey...
...vision thing." Despite its status as an economic superpower, the country suffers from global parochialism. The closest approximation of a grand strategy is the goal of keeping the world safe for Japanese exports and investments. The political system depends, sometimes to the point of paralysis, on consensus. The prime ministership has rarely been a bully pulpit, especially in recent years. After a massive stock-trading scandal, the shoguns of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party chose Kaifu in 1989 not just because he was untainted. He was untested and unthreatening as well, a caretaker who would be easy to push around...