Word: premier
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Like most other Israelis, Peres first learned about Premier Yitzhak Rabin's resignation when he watched the Premier's television speech on April 7. The previous night Yitzhak and Leah Rabin had been dinner guests of Peres and his wife Sonia, who, of course, knew about the resignation rumors. Rabin looked a little tense, a little sad, but gave no indication that he planned to step down...
After Rabin's speech, Peres moved decisively to nail down the Labor Party nomination for Premier that he had twice lost by narrow margins. "I knew I had the support of the party," said Peres, but he had to prove as much to Foreign Minister Yigal Allon, 58. That involved argument, cajolement and, in the end, tough political bargaining. Only hours before the decisive meeting of the Labor Party's central committee, Allon finally agreed not to fight Peres for the top post. Peres in turn announced that the Foreign Minister would be Labor...
Peres was unhappy that Rabin did not quit as Premier immediately. But the Defense Minister refused to discuss the problems of his old antagonist directly. "You never take advantage when a fellow is in trouble," he said. "That's the first role in any civilized society. Rabin went through very deep agony. Justice demands that we make it as easy as possible to get over a very difficult period...
...Santiago Carrillo. He was addressing the party's 152-member Central Committee, which last week met on Spanish soil for the first time in 38 years. In perhaps his most daring move since becoming head of Spain's second post-Franco government nine months ago, reform-minded Premier Adolfo Suarez had legalized the Communist Party, declaring it qualified to participate in the national elections set last week for June...
Predictable Shock. But King Juan Carlos and his Premier had their own reasons for favoring legalization of the party. For one thing, many Western European nations have hinted that an election without Communist participation would be regarded as a farce; Madrid desperately wants closer economic and political ties with the European Community. For another thing, if the Communists were not legalized they would have attempted mass demonstrations and fomented labor unrest during the campaign. Widespread pre-election chaos could have discredited Suarez's reform program and encouraged the ultrarightists, who oppose Juan Carlos' determination to guide his country...