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...American forces beefed up in the area with an additional 2,000 seaborne Marines to be stationed in the waters off Beirut. The Reagan Administration could only watch, however, when its ally Israel suffered a different kind of shock: the announcement by Prime Minister Menachem Begin that he would resign...
...government's plan to redeploy Israeli forces to the Awali. In one of his last acts as Prime Minister, Begin agreed to the Reagan request; in return, he received some harsh criticism from one of his colleagues. At the Cabinet meeting at which Begin announced his plan to resign, Minister Without Portfolio Ariel Sharon, who, as Defense Minister, had been the chief architect of Israel's misadventure in Lebanon, attacked him for having "sold out" to the Americans. The redeployment, which the Israelis were anxious to carry out in order to reduce their casualties, started late last week...
...photograph of Menachem Begin. Nor was the Prime Minister present as 950 members of the Herut Party gathered last week to elect his successor in a boisterous, eight-hour-long session. If the attention of an anxious nation had been riveted on Begin while he debated whether to resign, Israelis seemed determined, once that decision was made, to move into the new and uncertain post-Begin era without looking back...
...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, moved decisively to assure Israelis that the transition would be swift and smooth. Shamir said that...
Israelis were stunned when Begin, 70, suddenly announced at a Cabinet meeting early last week that he intended to resign. The Prime Minister, who has suffered two heart attacks, one stroke and a broken hip, has been in poor health for some time. In the past year, moreover, Begin has received a series of damaging jolts to his morale, each compounding the others. Last November, as he was about to deliver a speech in Los Angeles, he heard the news that his wife of 43 years, Aliza, had died after a long illness. Three months later, an independent Israeli commission...