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Edginess over Jerusalem's relations with Washington may affect this week's Israeli election. In an eleven-week campaign characterized by dreary mudslinging, none of the three major contenders has enticed voters with an attractive image. Labor, headed by the likely winner, Acting Premier Shimon Peres, was hurt by strikes, inflation and recurring scandals. After a brisk start, the new Democratic Movement for Change, led by Yigael Yadin, appears too elitist to many voters. The right-wing opposition Likud, whose ailing leader is onetime anti-British Terrorist Menachem Begin, was accused of maintaining an illegal bank account abroad...
...projections are accurate, Likud would be in a position to form the first coalition government without the Labor Party, now headed by former Defense Minister Shimon Peres, in Israeli history...
...happens, that has been the view of Israel's Defense Minister and caretaker Prime Minister Shimon Peres, who, along with Saudi Arabia's Prince Fahd, is on Carter's future Middle East guest list. Peres, who became Israel's acting head of government when Yitzhak Rabin stepped down because of a family financial scandal (TIME, April 25), is expected to lead the Labor Party to a victory in Israel's mid-May general elections despite the Rabin embarrassment. In Tel Aviv last week, Peres stressed the complications involved in trying to hold Geneva talks this...
...country or temporarily unable to fulfill his duty." Rabin at first refused to take advantage of this option, which fueled rumors that he might be planning a political comeback. At week's end, however, Rabin indicated that he would take an extended vacation. This cleared the way for Shimon Peres to move in as caretaker Premier and get a little advance training on the job he expects to hold after...
...should have been baggy-eyed and rumpled at the end of the most hectic week of his life. But Shimon Peres, as usual, was relaxed and well-groomed as he sipped Turkish coffee in his Defense Ministry office while discussing Israel's latest political crisis with TIME Jerusalem Bureau Chief Donald Neff and Correspondent David Halevy. The only clue that the pressure had taken its toll: Peres, 53, whose memory is notably accurate, from time to time peeked at a small pocket diary to check on his recollections of what he called "in political terms, a complete revolution...