Word: shamir
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Even those who promote the settlement policy have not offered a satisfactory solution to the real dilemma: how to treat the West Bank's 800,000 Arabs. Shamir favors a form of "limited autonomy," to be negotiated with Jordan, under which the West Bank and Gaza Arabs would have control over taxes and police, for example, but not over such matters as water, security and immigration. Though Peres is less specific, he has promised to suspend the construction of new settlements immediately. He would also turn limited administrative powers over to the Arabs without waiting for Jordan to join...
Although army bases have been fortified and new roads built in recent weeks, the Shamir government would like to withdraw from southern Lebanon. What keeps the Israelis there is the absence of a central authority able to guarantee that P.L.O. fighters will...
Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, in full voice but visibly fatigued from the dual responsibilities of being head of government and a candidate on the hustings, welcomed Correspondents Kelly and Halevy to his Jerusalem office and talked at length about his government's prospects. Excerpts...
...influence completely waned: when Deputy Prime Minister David Levy considered challenging Yitzhak Shamir for the Herut Party nomination, Begin's son called Levy, presumably at his father's request, and urged him to withdraw. Levy did. The master politician may have given up his job, but not his touch...
...busing our children. We have about 25% mixed marriages," says Eliezer Shmueli, a Sephardi who is director general of the Ministry of Education. "There is a renaissance of Sephardic culture and ethnic pride." A record 29 Sephardim sit in the 120-member Knesset; three are in Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir's 19-man Cabinet. Chief of Staff Moshe Levy is a Sephardic Jew, as is Israel Kesar, secretary-general of the 1.1 million-member General Federation of Labor. The second in command of both major political parties, Yitzhak Navon of Labor and David Levy of Likud, are Sephardim...