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...political aviary of Israel includes hawks and superhawks, doves and superdoves.* It also contains at least one vulture. That is what "peres" literally means in Hebrew, and Defense Minister Shimon Peres, 53, judging by last week's events, is most likely to be Israel's big bird after next month's general election. The adroit, self-confident Peres (see box) easily won the Labor Party's nomination for Premier at a special caucus of the central committee. Yitzhak Rabin, forced to step down after disclosures that his wife had illegally maintained bank accounts...
Other problems complicated the Labor Party's choice of a successor. Only six weeks ago, Rabin won re-endorsement as head of the party by narrowly defeating Defense Minister Shimon Peres by 41 out of nearly 3,000 votes. Party bylaws state that a replacement can be chosen only at another convention. In hectic days of negotiation after the bombshell, party chieftains decided that the 809-member central committee of the party could make the choice...
With the downfall of Yitzhak Rabin and the emergence of Shimon Peres as leader of the Labor Party, Israeli citizens have been deprived of their favorite blood sport: the ferocious, nonstop struggle for power and prestige between their Premier and their Defense Minister. For the past three years virtually every Israeli domestic, foreign and military policy issue has engaged the two contestants in loud public attacks and counterattacks, which occasionally subside into sotto voce snarling and low-key muttering...
...defeating Defense Minister Shimon Peres, 54, Rabin will be the Labor Party's candidate for Premier in ahead-of-schedule general elections in May. But the victory was so razor thin that it can only mean trouble for the party, the country and possibly the Middle East. With abstentions and irregularities culled, Rabin won by only 41 ballots (1,445 to 1,404), or less than 2%. Significantly, Rabin only squeaked through by sweeping the votes allotted to Israel's conservative kibbutzim, where Labor Party members traditionally get nearly double the convention representation of everyone else in recognition...
...office. Not only is he facing a strong challenge from opposition parties in the national elections scheduled for May 17, but he may not even be Labor's standardbearer. There is a possibility that this week's Labor Party convention will dump Rabin and nominate Defense Minister Shimon Peres...