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...SPAN cameras and a handful of junior members. The next morning, he whined to reporters that his stubbornness on the budget was partly inspired by an indignity--the President had forced him to exit Air Force One by the rear door upon returning from the funeral of Yitzhak Rabin. Hours later, when Gingrich appeared for a press conference, he had a prepared text in hand, as if trying to regain his composure...
...cabinet ministers and forged a new coalition within the parliament, aligning his Labor Party with the pro-peace Meretz bloc and two members of a right-wing faction. TIME's Johanna McGeary reports from Jerusalem: "Peres is making the right decisions. The coalition is essentially the same coalition Rabin had before he was killed. Peres is in a very strong position right now, because of the reverberations from the assassination. Peres is riding on that. He also very wisely moved some younger Labor Party leaders into the Cabinet. A particularly smart move was elevating Ehud Barak to foreign minister, which...
ISRAEL BURIES RABIN...
More than 60 world leaders, including President Clinton and former Presidents Jimmy Carter and George Bush, gathered in Jerusalem as assassinated Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was laid to rest on Mount Herzl, burial ground of Israeli heroes. Grieving Israelis exhausted the country's supply of mourning candles and stood weeping as a two-minute siren sounded. p.l.o. Chairman Yasser Arafat, who did not attend the funeral, later made a quiet 90-minute visit to Tel Aviv to offer condolences to Rabin's widow Leah...
Israeli police arrested Hagai Amir, brother of Rabin's confessed killer Yigal Amir, as a suspected accomplice in the slaying. Authorities discovered a large cache of weapons, including explosives, at Yigal Amir's home. Also taken into custody for possible involvement: Avishai Raviv, the leader of a radical right-wing group; a member of an elite army unit and his father; and three other men with links to Yigal Amir...