Word: rabins
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...outlook. But the Defense Minister also prides himself on his American connections made as a student at Harvard and the New School for Social Research, and as an arms negotiator for Israel during the Kennedy Administration. U.S. diplomats will probably find that Peres is a more imaginative negotiator than Rabin but equally unbending in his defense of Israel's need for security...
Flash polls last week indicated that Peres' selection had improved Labor's previously sagging election chances; expectations were that the party might take 43 of the 120 Knesset seats, instead of 39. But the Defense Minister still has two large obstacles to face. One is Rabin's continuing presence on the Labor slate as a candidate for a Knesset seat. Voters will be reminded that the party has not totally repudiated a man whose administration was plagued with scandal and who seemed incapable of handling Israel's endemic inflation. Peres' other problem is the strength...
Meanwhile, Rabin last week was characteristically uncertain about his future plans. Rather than seek a trial that might demean the office of Premier, he readily paid a token $ 1,600 fine for having been the co-signer of his wife's illicit bank account. His wife Leah, however, was formally indicted; if found guilty, she could be fined up to $63,000 and sentenced to three years in prison. Although he quit as Labor candidate for Israel's top job, Rabin could not resign office immediately; as head of a caretaker government, he was bound...
Like most other Israelis, Peres first learned about Premier Yitzhak Rabin's resignation when he watched the Premier's television speech on April 7. The previous night Yitzhak and Leah Rabin had been dinner guests of Peres and his wife Sonia, who, of course, knew about the resignation rumors. Rabin looked a little tense, a little sad, but gave no indication that he planned to step down...
...After Rabin's speech, Peres moved decisively to nail down the Labor Party nomination for Premier that he had twice lost by narrow margins. "I knew I had the support of the party," said Peres, but he had to prove as much to Foreign Minister Yigal Allon, 58. That involved argument, cajolement and, in the end, tough political bargaining. Only hours before the decisive meeting of the Labor Party's central committee, Allon finally agreed not to fight Peres for the top post. Peres in turn announced that the Foreign Minister would be Labor...