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...night of ballot counting passed, the name Shamir began to be heard more often. By 1:40 a.m., the decision was official. Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir, 67, had defeated his only rival for the top party slot, Deputy Prime Minister David Levy, 45, by 436 votes to 302. The rapid sequence of events that had started with Begin's sudden announcement that he would resign seemed to have stunned Shamir. "I don't think he is hungry for the job," confided an aide. But the new leader of the Herut Party, the largest group in the Likud bloc...
...Knesset. Labor Leader Peres, 60, had begun to woo members of the small parties as soon as he heard the news of Begin's resignation. But the opposition has suffered from the long-festering feud between Peres and former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Besides, given Shamir's rapid move to consolidate power, it seemed unlikely that Labor would be given the chance to return to power without elections, which are now scheduled...
...Parisians themselves helped to twist my fruitless venture into a routine exercise in humiliation by placing me at the mercy of either their effusive kindness or blackhearted contempt. One garrulous shopkeeper held me captive with a rapid-fire series of cheerful comments and questions, most of which flew past my comprehension. A neighboring grocer whacked my hand and swept me out of the store when I squeezed a tomato. The fact that I was unable to find simple and moderate good-naturedness among the Parisians left me Jangled and teary-eyed at the end of each...
Still trying to rebuild its house after the eruption caused by the IBM PC is Osborne Computer (1982 sales: $100 million). Osborne is one of several companies that have seen profits slip or disappear since the introduction of the PC. Concedes Founder and Chairman Adam Osborne: "The rapid emergence of the IBM standard was far more than we anticipated. IBM did it with an awesome speed, which took most people unawares...
Despite the minor disruptions and moderate increases, Communications Workers President Glenn Watts called the strike a "success in every sense." The importance of the A T & T settlement lies in a set of agreements to help workers adjust to the increasingly rapid rate of economic and technological change. Said Pat Choate, a labor specialist with TRW, the defense and aerospace company: "I'd be surprised if these conditions don't become part of other contracts and even more surprised if they don't find themselves endorsed in national legislation...