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Moshe Arens, who is slated to become Israel's new Foreign Minister, has something in common with his predecessor, Shimon Peres: he looks and acts like a gentleman diplomat. But while Peres, the head of the Labor Party, played the moderate during his two years in the post, Arens is expected to act the hard- liner. Arens, 63, was one of the few Israeli politicians who refused to support the Camp David peace accords with Egypt in 1978, and no one expects him to display any less determination in pressing his opposition to negotiating with the Palestine Liberation Organization. Warns...
...conduct of the war. But he also won admiration for his skillful management of Washington's vaunted Jewish lobby, even though his most cherished project, the Israeli-built Lavi jet fighter, turned out to be a $1.8 billion failure. From 1983 to 1984 Arens served as Defense Minister, a post that did nothing to lessen his commitment to Israeli control over the occupied territories. In 1986 Prime Minister Yitzak Shamir put Arens in charge of Israeli-Arab affairs. According to Shlomo Avineri, a political scientist at Jerusalem's Hebrew University and Labor supporter, Arens' primary goal "will...
Kemp surprised some Washington insiders by seeking the HUD post, a job that has had little stature during the Reagan Administration. For the past eight years, the HUD Secretary has been Samuel Pierce, the only black in Reagan's Cabinet, who has gone so unnoticed that he has earned the nickname "Silent Sam." Kemp would bring a more ambitious agenda to HUD. For years, he has been a strong advocate of Urban Enterprise Zones, in which the Federal Government would give investors tax breaks to encourage the economic revitalization of inner cities. He has also proposed selling public housing...
...William Webster, 64, the current CIA director, will remain in his post. But he will lose the Cabinet status he had under Reagan, reflecting Bush's view that the agency should concentrate on providing information rather than influencing policy...
...Restic and Carm Cozza: This year's Harvard-Yale football contest, dubiously referred to as The Game, was highlighted not by stellar play--both teams entered with losing records--but by the humor of the coaches. Restic, Harvard's gray-haired giant, entertained the post-game media throng with jokes about how he and Cozza decide on the winner of The Game before it starts...