Word: rabin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shock wore off, Rabin won sympathy and applause from Israelis for giving up power. Said the English-language Jerusalem Post: "He has done a service to the nation by his act. It will help clarify the standards of rectitude that the nation expects from its public officials." Rabin, however, left his government in a constitutional and political mess. Technically, he could not resign; that is against Israeli law. When he called for elections last December, Rabin became head of a caretaker government; now he cannot abdicate that responsibility. Explained an Israeli legal expert: "Even if the government allowed Rabin...
Other problems complicated the Labor Party's choice of a successor. Only six weeks ago, Rabin won re-endorsement as head of the party by narrowly defeating Defense Minister Shimon Peres by 41 out of nearly 3,000 votes. Party bylaws state that a replacement can be chosen only at another convention. In hectic days of negotiation after the bombshell, party chieftains decided that the 809-member central committee of the party could make the choice...
...hospital after a severe heart attack, and Yigael Yadin, head of the upstart Democratic Movement for Change, is fighting libel charges. Even so, Labor Stalwart Abba Eban confessed to doubts that the party "can still turn the wheel and gain momentum." If not, the sad end of Yitzhak Rabin could be followed by the demise of the Labor government he has suddenly ceased to lead...
With the downfall of Yitzhak Rabin and the emergence of Shimon Peres as leader of the Labor Party, Israeli citizens have been deprived of their favorite blood sport: the ferocious, nonstop struggle for power and prestige between their Premier and their Defense Minister. For the past three years virtually every Israeli domestic, foreign and military policy issue has engaged the two contestants in loud public attacks and counterattacks, which occasionally subside into sotto voce snarling and low-key muttering...
...dispute between the two men has often been more a matter of style than substance. Dour and woefully inarticulate, Rabin has frequently been outshone by Peres, 53, an elegant, personable and cultivated man of the world, whose eloquence is legendary in Israel. Though sometimes dismissed by U.S. diplomats as a lightweight, Peres is in fact a hardheaded, pragmatic and dedicated statesman. Not even his worst enemies would begrudge him credit for his critical contribution to Israel's formidable defense establishment...