Word: shimon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...addition to government leaders, opposition figures are invited to dine. Shimon Peres visited 3 two years ago as leader of Israel's Labor opposition. This week he is scheduled to return as his country's Prime Minister. El Salvador's President Jose Napoleon Duarte has visited, and so has Salvadoran Rebel Spokesman Ruben Zamora...
Mubarak may not find a sympathetic ear in Jerusalem either. Though he and Prime Minister Shimon Peres have exchanged notes about improving relations, Mubarak received a vivid example last week of the difficulties in dealing with an Israeli government of national unity that is nonetheless composed of ideological opposites. A spokesman for Foreign Minister Shamir, who was in New York City last week for the opening of the United Nations General Assembly, said that Israel still opposed the Reagan peace plan. This brought a terse rejoinder from Jerusalem, where Peres' Cabinet Secretary said that the gnew government, which...
Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres would like to pull his troops out of Lebanon. Apart from the mounting casualties, the occupation costs financially strapped Israel $1.2 million a day. What prevents the Israelis from leaving is what plagues Lebanon itself: the lack of a strong central government in Beirut that could bring order to the country. Though Peres admitted last week that withdrawal remains "several months" away, other officials estimate that the pullback will not take place before next summer...
...economy suffering from 400% annual inflation, the bold austerity measures were likely to be only the first of many. Nonetheless, the moves marked an auspicious start for a government that took two months to form. Said Prime Minister Shimon Peres, the Labor Party leader: "We have to turn first of all to ourselves, control our standard of living, reduce our expenses, and make Israel self-reliant from an economic point of view...
Agreement had seemed within reach so often, only to slip away, that no one seemed surprised when the ceremony was delayed for five hours on Thursday. After all, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Shamir had been up until 5 a.m. negotiating the last detail. Finally, at 3:45 p.m., the two met again in the Knesset basement. Sitting at a blue cloth-covered table and surrounded by colleagues, Labor Leader Peres and Likud Chief Shamir signed the accord that established a national unity government. Cognac glasses in hand, the new partners toasted the accomplishment with cries of "L 'chayim...