Word: shimon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Foreign Ministry is headed by Shimon Peres, head of the left-leaning Labor Party, which has been more flexible on the issue of talking to the PLO than the right-wing Likud bloc led by Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir. Shamir has ruled out any contact...
Coincidentally, another familiar Iran-contra figure, Israeli arms agent and counterterrorism expert Amiram Nir, died last week in the crash of a small Cessna plane in Mexico. The pilot also died, and two passengers were injured. Nir, a former aide to Shimon Peres and to Yitzhak Shamir, worked closely with North in the sale of U.S. arms to Iran, traveled with him to Tehran in the attempted arms-for-hostage exchanges and briefed Vice President Bush on the ill-fated scheme...
JERUSALEM--Foreign Minister Shimon Peres said yesterday that the Soviet Union's enthusiastic response to Israel's help in the return of four hijackers has given "new significance" to relations with Moscow...
...safer alternative for Shamir might be to lure Labor into a broad coalition. But the party would be a junior partner, and the opening round of talks proved humiliating for its leader, Shimon Peres. "It's a joke," said Labor Party member Yossi Beilin. "They need us as a fig leaf, and their demands are impossible...
...Many Labor leaders want no part of such a deal, but neither are they willing to seek a lesser coalition with the small parties. Declared Energy Minister Moshe Shahal: "It would be better to spend some time in opposition than yield to ultra-religious and ultra- nationalist demands." For Shimon Peres, either choice would be humiliating. After three campaigns in which he failed to deliver a Labor victory, pressure is growing on him to step aside as party leader. For now he is saved by the lack of a credible alternative...