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...results put Labor leader Yitzhak Rabin in the best position to form a coalition government. Rabin has said he wants a broad alignment, "not one , that represents the extreme left or the extreme right." His coalition will almost surely include Meretz, a new left-wing bloc of parties, which won 12 seats...
...Rabin promises to slow the growth of settlements, to increase the pace of peace talks with the Palestinians and to repair the damage Shamir's hawkish policies did to relations with the U.S. -- all easier said than done. Rabin also pledges to rearrange the nation's priorities, to focus on domestic problems rather than foreign policy issues. This emphasis on internal matters, though popular, is ironic. When Rabin was Prime Minister from 1974 to 1977, he was notorious for doing the opposite. (See related story on page...
...BEEN BILLED AS THE GRAND BATTLE OF THE Yitzhaks: a robust election campaign pitting Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir against the toughest foe he has faced -- the former and newly returned head of the Labor Party, Yitzhak Rabin. Instead, the fight has shriveled into what the Jerusalem Post last week called "the Longest Yawn." Voters are so overcome with ennui that the major parties are canceling campaign events for lack of attendance. Posters and banners can hardly be seen in the streets. And Shamir's Likud is moaning that the Venezuelan soap opera Crystal is drawing the party's natural...
...result may be another national-unity government, with Labor and the Likud sharing power, as they have already done twice in the past, after tight elections in 1984 and 1988. With Labor likely to be the larger grouping, Rabin may replace Shamir as Prime Minister. But the two men's policies are so similar that such a prospect elicits little excitement. No wonder many voters are more interested in knowing whether Victoria, the Caracas fashion mogul, will discover that her new model, Crystal, is actually the daughter she conceived with a priest-in-training and gave up for adoption long...
...Shamir faces a far stiffer battle in June. He could have depicted Peres as a left-winger who would negotiate away too much. But Rabin is a hero of the 1967 Six-Day War who, as Defense Minister from 1984 to '90, reinforced his tough image by employing harsh tactics to quell the Palestinian intifadeh. While he advocates trading parts of the occupied territories for peace and opposes the expansion of Jewish settlements in those areas, no Israeli mistakes him for a dove. Rabin will try to convince voters that he alone can achieve peace, and he is expected...