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...shall not give even a single grain of the sands of the Sinai as a gift." ?Israeli Premier Menachem Begin
...Israel, meanwhile, the Labor Party opposition kept up its attack on Begin for his handling of foreign policy, his failure to halt inflation and even his physical and mental ability to carry on as Premier. "Clumsy," said former Foreign Minister Abba Eban of the handling of the Sadat request. Said another high-ranking political opponent after the Israeli mission was sent home: "This is the beginning of the end. We are heading toward the total collapse of the peace negotiations...
...last week's Cabinet session, the Premier, who has twice been hospitalized for a heart condition, conceded that "a month ago, I was very ill and could hardly function." He was as feisty as ever, though, at a stormy, seven-hour Knesset debate on foreign policy. The Premier's Likud-dominated coalition handily turned back a no-confidence motion introduced by the Labor Party by a vote of 70 to 35. But Israel's internal debate over its response to the Egyptian peace initiative continued. Last week TIME Jerusalem Bureau Chief Dean Fischer and Correspondent David Halevy interviewed Foreign Minister...
...years in power. In almost every way, the law of Syria?sometimes benevolent, often harsh?represents the will of Assad. When there was widespread criticism of corruption last year, he took a hard look at the influence buying of top government officials by free-spending entrepreneurs and fired his Premier, the Deputy Premier, a score of high-ranking civil servants and about a hundred more of lower rank...
...that has been let I out of its cage." So said Portugal's Socialist Party Leader Mario Soares last week, after emerging from the country's presidential palace in Belém. In fact, the jowly, amiable politician, known as "Chubby Cheeks" among his countrymen, had just been fired as Premier by Portugal's President, General António Ramalho Eanes. After two years as Portugal's first freely elected Premier since the 1974 April revolution, Soares will leave office as soon as Eanes appoints another Premier. And when he goes, Soares will take the 11 Socialist members of his 16-member...