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Passion plays in the afternoon. Take your cue from the soaps. The rule here is no guts, no glory. "Our characters," says Al Rabin, supervising executive producer of Days of Our Lives, "have to have the ability to wear their feelings on their sleeve. Don't be shy, show what's in your...
...mark the occasion, Arafat's followers in southern Lebanon launched a series of rocket attacks and a small guerrilla operation against northern Israel. In response, Israeli planes staged strikes against P.L.O. positions in Lebanon. The Israelis were also engaged in a heated debate last week, with Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin, a Labor Party leader, calling for a territorial compromise over the occupied West Bank and Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir repeating the Likud bloc's position that Israel will never make territorial concessions for peace...
...leaders. "There's a terrible restlessness developing," warns Pollster Smith. "Israelis have no one to look up to, no credible leader. So they don't know where they're headed." No exciting young politicians have surfaced to challenge the reigning trinity of Peres, Shamir and Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin. More distressing, at the moment Israelis see no visionaries, no David Ben-Gurions or Golda Meirs who might lead Israel out of its doldrums...
Ironically, the ruling coalition will probably shield Israel's top politicians from having to shoulder the blame. Much as Shamir, Peres and Rabin have evaded responsibility and protected one another throughout the Shin Bet and Iran-contra scandals, so they are expected to maintain a united front of professed ignorance about the Pollard operation. "If we had one major party in power, you'd find a scapegoat. But here they all hang together because everybody's implicated," charges Shlomo Avineri, a former director general of the Israeli Foreign Ministry. "You can't scapegoat anyone. That would mean a breakup...
Israeli government officials are sharply divided over the concept of an international peace conference. Labor Party leaders, including Foreign Minister Peres, Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin, Minister without Portfolio Ezer Weizman and former Foreign Minister Abba Eban, have endorsed the idea, but Likud leaders have so far rejected the proposals and Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir has recently renewed his commitment not to withdraw from any portion of the occupied territories. It may be necessary ultimately for the Israeli public to resolve these differences through early national elections...