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...attempt to accelerate the peace process, Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres named new cabinet ministers and forged a new coalition within the parliament, aligning his Labor Party with the pro-peace Meretz bloc and two members of a right-wing faction. TIME's Johanna McGeary reports from Jerusalem: "Peres is making the right decisions. The coalition is essentially the same coalition Rabin had before he was killed. Peres is in a very strong position right now, because of the reverberations from the assassination. Peres is riding on that. He also very wisely moved some younger Labor Party leaders into...
...Rabin has turned suddenly and sharply against him. Likud and Netanyahu had for months been building up a big lead in public-opinion polls over the Labor government. But the first postassassination poll, published Friday in the newspaper Yediot Aharonot, showed that Rabin's successor, acting Prime Minister Shimon Peres, would win 54% of the votes if an election were held today; Netanyahu would take only 23%. The poll also indicated that if a new Israeli Knesset were elected now, Labor would win 46 seats and Likud 30. That would be a relatively small change from the lineup...
...added that negotiations will continue with Syria under Israel's new prime minister, Shimon Peres, but that it will take time for the two countries to arrive at a lasting peace...
...fiercely rejects Rabin's participation in peace negotiations with the Palestine Liberation Organization. "I am very sad and very shocked," said P.L.O. leader Yasser Arafat. President Clinton, who called Rabin "a martyr for his nation's peace," will attend Monday's funeral. The Israeli Cabinet immediately named Foreign Minister Shimon Peres acting Prime Minister. A government spokesman vowed "to press ahead with the peace process...
...town of Jenin. As they left, Palestinian police, followed by a jubilant crowd of Arabs, entered the building and raised the Palestinian flag. Jenin becomes the first town to gain autonomy under the agreement signed by Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Rabin last September. In fact, Acting Prime Minister Shimon Peres, who was formally approved as leader of the ruling Labor Party on Sunday, had moved up the transfer by a week to show his committment to peace with the Palestinians. "They really did it in the wee hours of the morning, when it was still dark, to minimize...