Word: perese
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Washington was quietly pleased by the outcome. A pre-vote invitation to Rabin from Jimmy Carter to visit the U.S. was interpreted in Israel as outright U.S. backing of the Rabin candidacy, and Peres supporters protested such undue interference in Israel's internal affairs.
By defeating Defense Minister Shimon Peres, 54, Rabin will be the Labor Party's candidate for Premier in ahead-of-schedule general elections in May. But the victory was so razor thin that it can only mean trouble for the party, the country and possibly the Middle East. With...
Obvious Disappointment. Arab statesmen, on the other hand, who like to pretend that they pay no attention at all to Israeli politics, were obviously disappointed by the outcome. They believe that the suave, eloquent Peres is a stronger leader than the cautious, dogmatic Rabin, and that he would be willing...
The seven-week campaign for the party nomination was fought essentially around domestic issues, mostly on the specific point of whether the entrenched Labor leadership that Rabin represents still deserves, after 30 years in power, to continue leading the country. Rabin was hand-picked by Golda Meir three years ago...
In some respects, Vance's arrival in Israel was extraordinarily inconvenient for his hosts; they were almost totally distracted by domestic political turmoil. The Labor Party of Premier Rabin was reeling from the latest in a series of scandals; Asher Yadlin, a former high-ranking Labor Party member, had...