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Israel's government officials, who have tenuously united the nation's two major political parties in a 19-month old coalition, are playing a frantic game of musical cabinet seats to salvage the unity coalition. It all began when Finance Minister Yitzhak Modai, engineer of the miraculous plan that tightened...
So far, Israeli authorities have detained as many as 20 Palestinians in connection with the shooting, but have apparently made little progress in solving the murder. Prime Minister Shimon Peres told the Knesset's Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee that the radical Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine or...
^ Whoever was responsible, the assassination was a setback for what little is left of the peace process that has evolved from the 1978 Camp David accords (see box). It undermined King Hussein's hopes of finding partners among moderate West Bank Palestinians to replace the recalcitrant P.L.O. Equally, it was...
. Peres now faces a political dilemma. Any suggestion that Israel was returning to an "iron fist" policy in southern Lebanon might satisfy his Likud coalition partners. But a prolonged Israeli presence there would anger moderate Arab governments and undermine whatever prospects remain for Middle East peace talks. After King Hussein...
The failure of Hussein's initiative leaves behind lots of losers. The Reagan Administration is now without an ongoing peace strategy for the Middle East. Hussein is more vulnerable than ever to the Syrians and to his own Palestinian population. He will probably feel a need to seek closer ties...