Word: shimon
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Though Bush had hoped to visit Morocco's King Hassan II, who two weeks ago hosted a surprise meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres, the Vice President was rebuffed. The Moroccan ruler apparently did not want to create the impression that his diplomatic initiative had been an American invention. In Jordan, Bush met with King Hussein, who earlier dismissed the Vice President's call for a Hussein-Peres meeting. Hussein had pointed out that Jordan's long-standing policy is to reject such negotiations unless held within the context of an international peace conference. Bush did not bring...
...There is no shame in discussing things with one's enemies." So said Morocco's King Hassan II three months ago. Last week he lived up to those words by meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres. The talks in the Moroccan resort of Ifrane produced little except what one participant described as a promise to "remain in contact." But the fact that the meeting was held at all merits at least a mention in the tortured history of Israel's relations with the Arab world...
...weeks ago, Labor Prime Minister Shimon Peres and Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir, his Likud partner in the national unity government, hoped for a quick end to the controversy when President Chaim Herzog pardoned Shalom of any crimes committed in the affair. In exchange, Shalom handed in his resignation. Three other officials of the agency were also pardoned...
Three former senior employees of the agency had charged that Shalom ordered the two captured Arabs clubbed to death and then covered up the organization's role before two official investigations into the killings. Rising calls for a new probe were opposed by both Labor Prime Minister Shimon Peres and Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir, head of the Likud bloc in Israel's national unity coalition. They insisted that an inquiry into Shin Bet's role in the deaths could expose state secrets...
...Shin Bet (the Hebrew acronym for Israel's General Security Service), which handles antiterrorism intelligence operations. "There will be no whitewash of the affair," Harish told reporters. Still, few doubted that the Attorney General would come under heavy pressure from the Cabinet of Labor Prime Minister Shimon Peres to limit the scope of any probe...