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Prime Minister Shimon Peres took office ten months ago determined to reform Israel's out-of-control finances. But when he tried to put the brakes on inflation last week, the country came briefly to a halt. With the U.S. pressuring him for action, Peres became the first Israeli leader...
Just 100 yds. away, Secretary of State George Shultz was in his office, talking by phone to Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres about the hostage crisis. After the killings, security was tightened, including some searches of attache cases. Still, unsettled officials admitted that lapses can always occur. Said one: "We...
The dilemma was complicated by the fact that only last month the government of Prime Minister Shimon Peres provoked a national uproar with a perceived departure from that principle. To secure the release of three Israeli soldiers who had been captured and held by Palestinians during the 1982 invasion of...
"Why cross an ocean when you can cross a river? Why should we sail to Washington when we can meet right away ten miles from here?" That was Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres' reaction last week to the latest developments in a Middle East peace initiative by Jordan's King...
The week had begun on a hopeful note with a letter on wider Middle East peace prospects from U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz to Prime Minister Peres. Shultz told Peres that the U.S. had been impressed by Hussein's statement that he had won the backing of the Palestine...