Word: shamir
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Likud leader and Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, buoyed by projections early today that his party was ahead, claimed he had the best chance of forming a new government...
...smiling Shamir told supporters at campaignheadquarters he believed Likud could from a rulingmajority in the 120-seat Knesset, or parliament,with small parties...
...Based on the facts we have before us, it seemsthat the situation commands and enables the Likudto form Israel's next government," Shamir said ina nationally televised speech...
...year-old Shamir made his statement onthe basis of television projections and beforesignificant official results were available...
Bickering is to be expected. This election, after all, is also a divorce proceeding, an attempt to separate two parties forced to plight their troth four years ago after neither won enough votes to form a government. Under that misnamed government of national unity, Shamir and Peres have shared power, each paralyzing the other's attempts to address the urgent issues confronting Israel. With neither party likely to win more than 47 seats, and both averse to forming coalitions with some of the fringe groups on the extreme right and left, the prospect looms of another uncomfortable power-sharing arrangement...