Word: shimon
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...weeks ago, Mubarak wrote Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres suggesting a meeting in Cairo at the end of the month to discuss the foundering Middle East peace process. One obstacle is the unresolved question of Taba, the 250-acre patch of Sinai Desert coastline claimed by both Israel and Egypt. Peres is ready to submit the matter to international arbitration, as advocated by Mubarak. His coalition partner, Likud Leader and Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir, would probably go along with him because Shamir is anxious to avoid a clash that could jeopardize his chance of taking over as Prime Minister...
...black-hatted, ultra-Orthodox demonstrators have become commonplace at the site. Mayor Teddy Kollek, who approved the project, and the center's Mormon director have even received death threats. Last week 40 rabbis from communities outside Jerusalem joined the growing protest by picketing the office of Prime Minister Shimon Peres...
Prime Minister Shimon Peres has been hampered in his efforts to improve relations with Egypt by a minor but irritating border dispute. At issue is a 250-acre stretch of coastline along the Gulf of Aqaba named Taba, claimed by both countries on the basis of old survey maps. The Israelis completed their withdrawal from the rest of the occupied Sinai in 1982 under the terms of their peace treaty with Egypt. But they retained Taba, and in fact built a resort hotel on it. Peres has been ready to agree to an Egyptian demand for international arbitration...
...Prime Minister David Levy and Industry and Trade Minister Ariel Sharon. The melee raised questions not only about the future of Herut and Likud but about the ability of Shamir to take over as Prime Minister in October under the terms of his coalition agreement with Labor Prime Minister Shimon Peres...
...several militants jailed in France. More chilling, the group's communiqué suggested that French Journalist Jean-Paul Kauffmann, who is one of eight French citizens being held hostage in Lebanon, should be executed as a "Zionist spy" to protest a visit to Paris last week by Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres...