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...government. Last September, with the Lebanon debacle far behind and the inflation rate hovering around 25%, down from an annual high of 800%, Smith's polls showed the coalition enjoying a 63% popularity rating. In January, with fresh details of the Iran arms deal emerging daily and the Pollard affair simmering, the government's rating dropped...
...near future little is likely to change for the ruling coalition. Much to the government's distress, the political fallout from the Pollard spy case continues. Last week, with two Israeli probes into the controversy under way, investigators acknowledged that the country's senior leadership is under scrutiny. Said one official: "When the findings are published, it will be determined whether the rascals are guilty...
...will paint a grim portrait of the Israeli government. Shamir's associates are bracing for a verdict that will be a broad, stinging indictment of the recent tendency to delegate too much - authority. But they do not anticipate any findings that will contradict Shamir's repeated contention that the Pollard affair was a "rogue" operation. "I don't think it will point a finger at the political leadership, but it will point to a very disorganized system that permitted this operation in the first place," says a Shamir aide. "It will point to a lack of upper- level control...
...coalition will probably shield Israel's top politicians from having to shoulder the blame. Much as Shamir, Peres and Rabin have evaded responsibility and protected one another throughout the Shin Bet and Iran-contra scandals, so they are expected to maintain a united front of professed ignorance about the Pollard operation. "If we had one major party in power, you'd find a scapegoat. But here they all hang together because everybody's implicated," charges Shlomo Avineri, a former director general of the Israeli Foreign Ministry. "You can't scapegoat anyone. That would mean a breakup of the government...
...government was being buffeted by the Pollard scandal and by other problems, Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir met in his office with TIME Jerusalem Bureau Chief Johanna McGeary and Reporter Robert Slater for a 45-minute interview. Excerpts from their talk...