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Almost immediately, the race was on for Begin's job as leader of the Herut Party, the largest faction within the Likud bloc. As eight Herut Cabinet members gathered to discuss the succession, Shamir was the clear front runner. But Levy, a Morocco-born trade union leader, shattered hopes of an early agreement. "There will be more than one candidate," he told his colleagues. Levy had rejected an offer from Shamir to become his Foreign Minister. Levy pressed the group to put the succession to the party's central committee, where, Levy thought, he enjoyed more support...
...Budget Guide to Europe 1983 St. Martin's Press; $8.95. Tunisia, Morocco, Greece, Egypt, Israel: these contemporary meccas of American students are each thoroughly covered, along with a frugal European grand tour, in this guide issued annually by the Harvard Student Agencies, Inc. Even more rockbottom, pricewise, than Frommer's guide, Let's Go offers tips on youth hostels, hitchhiking, overseas study and controlled substances ("The best advice is to stay away from drugs in Europe"), as well as sensible sightseeing suggestions...
Even by the standards of Hollywood, the Third World and the CIA (and they all apply), Burt Nelson has real problems. Burt, who narrates this stingingly funny picaresque, is in Morocco to write the script of an Arab-backed movie biography of Muhammad, a "couscous Western," as the director calls it. Along the way, Burt becomes entangled with the producer's secretary-mistress, a Palestinian terrorist, and is kidnaped by Moroccan radicals who rashly expect his employers to pay $1 million in ransom. Burt, however, not only knows his "onions on Islam," he is a part-time spook...
This was reflected on the day before the speech, when House Democrats refrained from a head-on confrontation with the White House over a special appropriation for military aid to El Salvador. The Administration asked that $60 million now earmarked for Morocco be spent for this purpose. Clarence Long had originally opposed any additional money for El Salvador's military, but after a visit to that country in February, he became convinced that the government was improving its human rights record. By a 7-to-5 vote, his Democrat-dominated subcommittee gave the Administration half of what it requested...
...covert help to opponents of the government in Nicaragua. In this foreign policy thicket, Democratic opposition is the most serious obstacle. Still, even the Republican-controlled Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted in March to slash in half the $60 million in military aid that Reagan wants to switch from Morocco to El Salvador. The President has also asked for an additional $50 million in military funds for the Salvadoran government. The Senate committee is requiring that the Administration encourage open-ended negotiations between the Salvadoran government and leftist guerrillas as a condition for sending the added funds, a proposition that...