Word: navone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reason for Begin's truculent behavior may have been a sense that events were careening out of his control. On Monday, Israel's President Yitzhak Navon, whose office is essentially nonpolitical, took the unusual step of summoning Begin to his office for a one-hour accounting of Israel's role in the massacre. Afterward, Navon went on television to call for a "credible and independent inquiry...
...eyes, you are a true friend, I faithful to his principles, whose word is honor." That effusive welcome, delivered by Israeli President Yitzhak Navon last week, was reserved for a very special guest: French President François Mitterrand, the first West European leader to visit the Jewish state since former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt's historic pilgrimage in 1973. Despite a few rocky moments, the trip demonstrated France's shift away from the pro-Arab policy set by President Charles de Gaulle in 1967. It was a significant example of Mitterrand's stated intention...
...country's leaders, men like Begin, President Yitzhak Navon, former Defense Minister Ezer Weizman and Labor Party Leader Shimon Peres, who knew Sadat and worked with him, were genuinely moved and saddened. Right-wing extremists were overjoyed, anticipating that Sadat's death might mean Israel would retain its hold on part of the Sinai...
Residents of Yamit, the big Israeli settlement on the northern Sinai coast, began to wonder if they would be able to cling to their homes after all. The answer was no. As President Navon put it, "We did not make peace with one man, great as he was, but with the people of Egypt. We are duty-bound to continue...
...another election." In all likelihood, however, he will still be able to form a new government by Aug. 4, the deadline he had originally set for himself. He could nevertheless be forced to take an additional 21 days before he would be obliged to report failure to President Yitzhak Navon...