Word: premier
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...moment of triumph for Premier Menachem Begin, but the struggle had clearly taken some toll of the doughty old Zionist warrior. At 3:33 a.m. last Thursday Knesset Speaker Yitzhak Shamir announced the results of a roll call vote on a resolution approving the Camp David peace accords: 84 yes, 19 no, 17 abstentions. His tie uncharacteristically askew, a jubilant but obviously exhausted Begin embraced Deputy Premier Yigael Yadin and two of his key aides, Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan and Defense Minister Ezer Weizman. Next day Begin-who has a history of heart trouble-was taken to a Jerusalem hospital...
...majority's position rightly condemns Prime Minister Begin for his self-serving reinterpretations of the accord; but it does not parallely criticize Yasir Arafat's vows of accelerated violence, and Syrian Premier's Hafez Al-Assad's rejection of the accord on its face. Perhaps it is unrealistic to expect Syria and the P L O to lay down their arms so suddenly. But it is equally unrealistic to ask Israel immediately to grant nation status to the West Bank, when some Palestinian leaders still seek the destruction of Israel...
...first difficulties came from Israel's Premier Menachem Begin, who almost immediately began raising objections to what Vance had thought was an agreed-upon moratorium on new Israeli settlements on the West Bank. Next, both Jordan and Saudi Arabia, whose support is crucial to U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East, openly criticized the Camp David agreements. Other protests arose like a sandstorm, not only from such radical states as Libya, South Yemen and Algeria, and, of course, the Palestine Liberation Organization, but also from Syria and such moderate and normally friendly states as Bahrain, Qatar, North Yemen, Kuwait...
Despite the euphoria at the conclusion of the Camp David summit conference, there remained disagreement between Israeli Premier Menachem Begin and U.S. officials on several key elements of the accords. The Israeli leader discussed these and other issues in an exclusive interview with TIME. Highlights...
Last week the regime of Premier Pol Pot was staggering under the weight of its own excesses. The government's ability to withstand Hanoi's military offensive was in jeopardy. Increasing numbers of once fanatically loyal Khmer Rouge were deserting to join the enemy forces. Peasants in Cambodian villages near the Vietnamese border had revolted, murdering the fierce Khmer "controllers" who police the villages. At the same time, 200 Cambodian civilians a week were desperately crossing minefields and other deadly border booby traps to take refuge in Thailand. More than 150,000 have already escaped to Viet...